Structural and electronic properties of dye-sensitized TiO 2 for solar cell applications: from single molecules to self-assembled monolayers

M Pastore, T Etienne, F De Angelis - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We review computational contributions to the understanding of the physical principles
underlying interface phenomena related to dye adsorption at the surface of titanium oxide …

Effect of Coordination Sphere Geometry of Copper Redox Mediators on Regeneration and Recombination Behavior in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications

Y Saygili, M Stojanovic, H Michaels… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The recombination of injected electrons with oxidized redox species and regeneration
behavior of copper redox mediators are investigated for four copper complexes,[Cu (dmby) …

A systematic study of phenoxazine-based organic sensitizers for solar cells

P Li, Y Cui, C Song, H Zhang - Dyes and Pigments, 2017 - Elsevier
We perform a systematic theoretical and computational investigation of phenoxazine (POZ)-
based organic dyes to rationalize the marked difference in the energy conversion efficiency …

Dye sensitization of titania compact layer for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

N Balis, AA Zaky, D Perganti, A Kaltzoglou… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this work, the dye-sensitization approach was used to optimize the compact
layer/perovskite interface in planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The chemisorption of the …

The impact of heteroatom substitution on cross-conjugation and its effect on the photovoltaic performance of DSSCs–a computational investigation of linear vs. cross …

M Paramasivam, RK Chitumalla, J Jang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The unusual bonding pattern and proximal heteroatom substitution in π-cross conjugation
produced distinct changes in the energy levels and photophysical behaviour of the dyes. To …

Superhydrophobicity construction with dye-sensitised TiO2 on fabric surface for both oil/water separation and water bulk contaminants purification

L Yu, S Zhang, M Zhang, J Chen - Applied Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
For the promising material for both oil/water separation and water-soluble contaminants, the
Dye@ TiO 2-TEOS/VTEO hybrid modified polyester fabric is developed by a simple dip …

Fusing thienyl with N-annulated perylene dyes and photovoltaic parameters for dye-sensitized solar cells

P Xu, CR Zhang, YZ Wu, LH Yuan… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Due to the role of dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), designing novel dye
sensitizers is an effective strategy to improve the power conversion efficiency. To this end …

Efficient excitations and spectra within a perturbative renormalization approach

OJ Backhouse, GH Booth - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a self-consistent approach for computing the correlated quasiparticle spectrum
of charged excitations in iterative O [N 5] computational time. This is based on the auxiliary …

Photovoltaphores: pharmacophore models for identifying metal-free dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

H Binyamin, H Senderowitz - npj Computational Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are cost-effective, sustainable, and versatile electricity
producers, allowing them to be incorporated into a variety of devices. In this work, we …

Design, electron transfer process, and opto-electronic property of solar cell using triphenylamine-based D-π-A architectures

Y Li, L Mi, H Wang, Y Li, J Liang - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
A series of D-π-A type dyes were designed based on the experimentally synthesized A1 by
introducing different functional groups on the donor and π-spacer, and the optical and …