Ionic liquid crystals: versatile materials

K Goossens, K Lava, CW Bielawski… - Chemical …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
This Review covers the recent developments (2005–2015) in the design, synthesis,
characterization, and application of thermotropic ionic liquid crystals. It was designed to give …

Toward sustainable, colorless, and transparent photovoltaics: State of the art and perspectives for the development of selective near‐infrared dye‐sensitized solar …

F Grifoni, M Bonomo, W Naim… - Advanced Energy …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dye‐sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is one of the promising photovoltaic (PV) technologies for
applications requiring high aesthetic features combined with energy production such as …

Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

M Freitag, J Teuscher, Y Saygili, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they
can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor …

Highly-efficient dye-sensitized solar cells with collaborative sensitization by silyl-anchor and carboxy-anchor dyes

K Kakiage, Y Aoyama, T Yano, K Oya… - Chemical …, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In dye-sensitized solar cells co-photosensitized with an alkoxysilyl-anchor dye ADEKA-1
and a carboxy-anchor organic dye LEG4, LEG4 was revealed to work collaboratively by …

Electrolytes in dye-sensitized solar cells

J Wu, Z Lan, J Lin, M Huang, Y Huang, L Fan… - Chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley outlined humanity's top 10 problems for the
next 50 years. 1 The top problem is energy (Figure 1). Human society is facing a global …

Energy applications of ionic liquids

DR MacFarlane, N Tachikawa, M Forsyth… - Energy & …, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids offer a unique suite of properties that make them important candidates for a
number of energy related applications. Cation–anion combinations that exhibit low volatility …

Arylamine organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

M Liang, J Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Arylamine organic dyes with donor (D), π-bridge (π) and acceptor (A) moieties for dye-
sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have received great attention in the last decade because of …

Recent advances in dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells for solar hydrogen production based on molecular components

Z Yu, F Li, L Sun - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Conceptually new research on dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (DS-PECs),
through which solar-driven water splitting to generate solar fuel in the form of hydrogen is …

Carbazole‐based hole‐transport materials for efficient solid‐state dye‐sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells

B Xu, E Sheibani, P Liu, J Zhang, H Tian… - Advanced …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201402415 to 7.2% for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells
(ssDSCs)[7] and 15.4% for perovskite solar cells (PSCs);[8] both champion results have …

Copper bipyridyl redox mediators for dye-sensitized solar cells with high photovoltage

Y Saygili, M Söderberg, N Pellet… - Journal of the …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Redox mediators play a major role determining the photocurrent and the photovoltage in
dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). To maintain the photocurrent, the reduction of oxidized …