Biomolecular photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells: Recent developments and critical insights

HA Maddah, V Berry, SK Behura - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Dye-sensitized solar cells based on bacterial-based photosensitizers (bio-sensitized
DSSCs) are promising bio-photoelectronic molecular devices exhibiting enhanced electron …

Organic sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC): Properties from computation, progress and future perspectives

IN Obotowo, IB Obot, UJ Ekpe - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2016 - Elsevier
The advent of the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) came at a time when the quest for
alternative energy was high, replacing pn junction photovoltaic devices. Its uniqueness …

Dye chemistry with time-dependent density functional theory

AD Laurent, C Adamo, D Jacquemin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this perspective, we present an overview of the determination of excited-state properties of
“real-life” dyes, and notably of their optical absorption and emission spectra, performed …

D–D− π–A-Type organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells with a potential for direct electron injection and a high extinction coefficient: synthesis, characterization …

S Namuangruk, R Fukuda, M Ehara… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A series of organic sensitizers with the direct electron injection mechanism and a high molar
extinction coefficient comprising double donors, a π-spacer, and anchoring acceptor groups …

Metal-free organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: recent advances

RK Kanaparthi, J Kandhadi, L Giribabu - Tetrahedron, 2012 - Elsevier
'Energy'is identified as one of the topmost problems that humanity faces over the next 50
years. 1 To overcome this problem the scientific community had already started working on …

Phenothiazine–triphenylamine based organic dyes containing various conjugated linkers for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Z Wan, C Jia, Y Duan, L Zhou, Y Lin… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In order to increase the electron-donating ability of the donor part of the organic dye, two
phenothiazine groups, as additional electron donors, were introduced into a triphenylamine …

Ground state geometries, UV/vis absorption spectra and charge transfer properties of triphenylamine-thiophenes based dyes for DSSCs: A TD-DFT benchmark study

ZME Fahim, SM Bouzzine, AA Youssef… - Computational and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract DFT and TD-DFT calculations using ten various functionals contain 0 to 100% of HF
exchange amount (BLYP, B3LYP, PBE0, M06, BHandH, BHandHLYP, M06-2X, CAM …

Molecular engineering of indoline based organic sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

B Liu, Q Liu, D You, X Li, Y Naruta… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The increasing electron-donating ability of the donor part is focused to further optimize the
light-harvesting capability. Our strategy is to introduce an additional donor group into the …

Triazatruxene Amine Donor-Based Visible-Light-Responsive Unsymmetrical Squaraine Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

KB Ingole, SS Deshmukh, TS Verma… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optimized charge-transfer dynamics at the dye-TiO2/electrolyte interface are required for an
enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) device performance. Such an optimized …

Study of chemical reactivity in relation to experimental parameters of efficiency in coumarin derivatives for dye sensitized solar cells using DFT

R Soto-Rojo, J Baldenebro-López… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A group of dyes derived from coumarin was studied, which consisted of nine molecules
using a very similar manufacturing process of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Optimized …