Do** of carbon materials for metal‐free electrocatalysis

C Hu, L Dai - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon atoms in the graphitic carbon skeleton can be replaced by heteroatoms with different
electronegative from that of the carbon atom (ie, heteroatom do**) to modulate the charge …

Rational design criteria for D–π–A structured organic and porphyrin sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

JM Ji, H Zhou, HK Kim - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing energy consumption worldwide and environmental concerns about global
warming have attracted great interest in the development of renewable and eco-friendly …

Significant light absorption enhancement by a single heterocyclic unit change in the π-bridge moiety from thieno [3, 2-b] benzothiophene to thieno [3, 2-b] indole for …

YK Eom, SH Kang, IT Choi, Y Yoo, J Kim… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The molecular design of organic sensitizers is one of the fundamental factors for high-
efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this study, we first utilize the alkylated thieno …

Porphyrin Sensitizers with Donor Structural Engineering for Superior Performance Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells and Tandem Solar Cells for Water Splitting Applications

SH Kang, MJ Jeong, YK Eom, IT Choi… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Zn (II)–porphyrin sensitizers, coded as SGT‐020 and SGT‐021, are designed and
synthesized through donor structural engineering. The photovoltaic (PV) performances of …

Guiding principles for designing highly efficient metal‐free carbon catalysts

L Zhang, CY Lin, D Zhang, L Gong, Y Zhu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanomaterials are promising metal‐free catalysts for energy conversion and
storage, but the catalysts are usually developed via traditional trial‐and‐error methods. To …

Carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysis for energy conversion, energy storage, and environmental protection

C Hu, Y ** highly effective and stable counter electrode (CE) materials to replace rare and
expensive noble metals for dye‐sensitized and perovskite solar cells (DSC and PSC) is a …

Recent progress on nanostructured carbon-based counter/back electrodes for high-performance dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells

M Aftabuzzaman, C Lu, HK Kim - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs) favor minimal
environmental impact and low processing costs, factors that have prompted intensive …

Electrochemistry and dye-sensitized solar cells

L Kavan - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Electrochemical preparation and characterization of DSC components.•New
cathode catalysts, redox mediators, hole-conductors, electrode materials.•Aqueous DSCs …

Edge‐functionalized graphene nanoplatelets as metal‐free electrocatalysts for dye‐sensitized solar cells

DH Kweon, JB Baek - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A scalable and low‐cost production of graphene nanoplatelets (GnPs) is one of the most
important challenges for their commercialization. A simple mechanochemical reaction has …