Advances in phenothiazine and phenoxazine-based electron donors for organic dye-sensitized solar cells

SN Al-Ghamdi, HA Al-Ghamdi, RM El-Shishtawy… - Dyes and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) as an elegant environmental solution for renewable
energy production at a lower cost than conventional silicon solar cells have been of great …

Phenothiazine and phenoxazine sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells–an investigative review of two complete dye classes

AF Buene, DM Almenningen - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phenothiazine dyes have attracted significant attention as metal-free sensitizers for dye-
sensitized solar cells since their introduction in 2007. Since then, over 430 phenothiazine …

Electronic and optical properties' tuning of phenoxazine-based D-A2-π-A1 organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells. DFT/TDDFT investigations

SO Afolabi, B Semire, MA Idowu - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Modulation of molecular features of metal free organic dyes is important to present
sensitizers with competing electronic and optical properties for dye sensitized solar cells …

Recent advances in phenothiazine-based dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

JS Luo, ZQ Wan, CY Jia - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted significant attention as alternatives to
conventional silicon-based solar cells owing to their low-cost production, facile fabrication …

Designing of efficient acceptors for organic solar cells: molecular modelling at DFT level

A Irfan, A Mahmood - Journal of Cluster Science, 2018 - Springer
Effort is done to design high-performance small molecule electron acceptors for organic
solar cells. Herein, we have designed four acceptor molecules with different donor moiety …

Molecular design and theoretical investigation of new metal-free heteroaromatic dyes with D-π-A architecture as photosensitizers for DSSC application

P Naik, R Su, MR Elmorsy, DD Babu, A El-Shafei… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Herein, we report design, synthesis and photovoltaic performance of four new metal-free
heteroaromatic dyes (P 1-4) with D-π-A architecture carrying electron donating carbazole …

Novel DD-π-A indoline-linked coumarin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

S Jiang, Y Chen, Y Li, L Han - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two indoline-linked coumarin double donor sensitizing dyes were synthesized with
thiophene as π-bridge and cyanoacrylic acid as acceptor. Two sensitizing dyes differ mainly …

New D—D—π-A triphenylamine–coumarin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

J He, Y Liu, J Gao, L Han - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Three D–D–π-A triphenylamine–coumarin sensitizers were designed and
synthesized with a triphenylamine and coumarin double donor and a cyanoacrylic acid …

New efficient organic dyes employing indeno [1, 2-b] indole as the donor moiety for dye-sensitized solar cells

X Qian, R Yan, C Xu, L Shao, H Li, L Hou - Journal of Power Sources, 2016 - Elsevier
A new series of organic dyes based on indeno [1, 2-b] indole have been synthesized and
applied in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) for the first time. These four dyes QX11–14 are …

Significant improvement of phenothiazine organic dye-sensitized solar cell performance using dithiafulvenyl unit as additional donor

Z Wan, C Jia, Y Wang, J Luo, X Yao - Organic Electronics, 2015 - Elsevier
The simple D-π-A phenothiazine organic dye (C 6 PTZ) was modified by introducing
excellent electron donor dithiafulvenyl unit with alkyl chains as additional donor to form …