Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Water splitting dye-sensitized solar cells

P Xu, NS McCool, TE Mallouk - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Research in artificial photosynthesis is driven by the goal of creating low-cost, integrated
systems for the direct conversion of solar energy to high energy density fuels. Water-splitting …

Photoelectrochemical Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer of TiO2 Thin Films on Silicon

HS Nedzbala, D Westbroek… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
TiO2 thin films are often used as protective layers on semiconductors for applications in
photovoltaics, molecule–semiconductor hybrid photoelectrodes, and more. Experiments …

Photosensitizing metal–organic framework enabling visible-light-driven proton reduction by a Wells–Dawson-type polyoxometalate

ZM Zhang, T Zhang, C Wang, Z Lin… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A simple and effective charge-assisted self-assembly process was developed to
encapsulate a noble-metal-free polyoxometalate (POM) inside a porous and …

A place in the sun for artificial photosynthesis?

J Su, L Vayssieres - ACS Energy Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Artificial photosynthesis enables the possibility of generating clean, sustainable, and large-
scale energy resources through water splitting and renewable chemical fuel syntheses. With …

Visible photoelectrochemical water splitting into H2 and O2 in a dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell

L Alibabaei, BD Sherman, MR Norris… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
A hybrid strategy for solar water splitting is exploited here based on a dye-sensitized
photoelectrosynthesis cell (DSPEC) with a mesoporous SnO2/TiO2 core/shell …

Metal-free organic sensitizers for use in water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells

JR Swierk, DD Méndez-Hernández, NS McCool… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Solar fuel generation requires the efficient capture and conversion of visible light. In both
natural and artificial systems, molecular sensitizers can be tuned to capture, convert, and …

Water-oxidation photoanodes using organic light-harvesting materials: A review

JT Kirner, RG Finke - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy conversion and storage by photoelectrochemical water splitting has garnered
significant research attention in recent years. While the majority of water-splitting systems …

Metal–organic frameworks as promising photosensitizers for photoelectrochemical water splitting

L Zhang, P Cui, H Yang, J Chen, F **ao… - Advanced …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ti‐based metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are demonstrated as promising
photosensitizers for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Photocurrents of TiO2 nano …

Visible light-driven water oxidation using a covalently-linked molecular catalyst–sensitizer dyad assembled on a TiO 2 electrode

M Yamamoto, L Wang, F Li, T Fukushima, K Tanaka… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of porphyrin as a sensitizer and a ruthenium complex as a water oxidation
catalyst (WOC) is promising to exploit highly efficient molecular artificial photosynthetic …