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 …

Theoretical Studies on Anatase and Less Common TiO2 Phases: Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanomaterials

F De Angelis, C Di Valentin, S Fantacci… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Driven by growing concerns for environmental and energy issues, interest in semiconductor-
based heterogeneous photocatalysis has increased considerably over the last decades …

Why do we use the materials and operating conditions we use for heterogeneous (photo) electrochemical water splitting?

A Govind Rajan, JMP Martirez, EA Carter - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Water splitting through the use of (photo) electrocatalysts is a carbon-free route to
sustainably produce hydrogen gas for use in various applications, such as ammonia and …

The Bethe–Salpeter equation in chemistry: relations with TD-DFT, applications and challenges

X Blase, I Duchemin, D Jacquemin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the many-body Green's function Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism that is
rapidly gaining importance for the study of the optical properties of molecular organic …

Cubic-Scaling All-Electron GW Calculations with a Separable Density-Fitting Space–Time Approach

I Duchemin, X Blase - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of the GW space–time approach that allows cubic-scaling all-
electron calculations with standard Gaussian basis sets without exploiting any localization or …

Electronic structure and phase stability of oxide semiconductors: Performance of dielectric-dependent hybrid functional DFT, benchmarked against band structure …

M Gerosa, CE Bottani, L Caramella, G Onida… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate band gaps, equilibrium structures, and phase stabilities of several bulk
polymorphs of wide-gap oxide semiconductors ZnO, TiO 2, ZrO 2, and WO 3. We are …

Low-order scaling quasiparticle self-consistent GW for molecules

A Förster, L Visscher - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Low-order scaling GW implementations for molecules are usually restricted to
approximations with diagonal self-energy. Here, we present an all-electron implementation …

Modeling materials and processes in hybrid/organic photovoltaics: from dye-sensitized to perovskite solar cells

F De Angelis - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the last 2 decades, researchers have invested enormous research effort
into hybrid/organic photovoltaics, leading to the recent launch of the first commercial …

Why Does the GW Approximation Give Accurate Quasiparticle Energies? The Cancellation of Vertex Corrections Quantified

A Förster, F Bruneval - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hedin's GW approximation to the electronic self-energy has been impressively successful in
calculating quasiparticle energies, such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, or …

Combining the Many-Body GW Formalism with Classical Polarizable Models: Insights on the Electronic Structure of Molecular Solids

J Li, G D'avino, I Duchemin, D Beljonne… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present an original hybrid QM/MM scheme merging the many-body Green's function GW
formalism with classical discrete polarizable models and its application to the paradigmatic …