Vegetable-based dye-sensitized solar cells

G Calogero, A Bartolotta, G Di Marco… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is currently a large effort to improve the performance of low cost renewable energy
devices. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are emerging as one of the most promising low …

Photophysical and electrochemical properties, and molecular structures of organic dyes for dye‐sensitized solar cells

Y Ooyama, Y Harima - ChemPhysChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on organic dyes adsorbed on oxide
semiconductor electrodes, such as TiO2, ZnO, or NiO, which have emerged as a new …

Dye-sensitized solar cells using 20 natural dyes as sensitizers

H Zhou, L Wu, Y Gao, T Ma - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Twenty natural dyes, extracted from natural materials such as flowers, leaves, fruits,
traditional Chinese medicines, and beverages, were used as sensitizers to fabricate dye …

Anthocyanins and betalains as light-harvesting pigments for dye-sensitized solar cells

G Calogero, JH Yum, A Sinopoli, G Di Marco, M Grätzel… - Solar energy, 2012 - Elsevier
We present the photoelectrochemical properties of dye-sensitized solar cells using natural
pigments containing betalains and anthocyanins as sensitizers. The dyes extracted from …

Natural dyes as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cell

S Hao, J Wu, Y Huang, J Lin - Solar energy, 2006 - Elsevier
The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) were assembled by using natural dyes extracted from
black rice, capsicum, erythrina variegata flower, rosa xanthina, and kelp as sensitizers. The …

Metal complex sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

AS Polo, MK Itokazu, NYM Iha - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
A brief review of the investigation of solar energy conversion and the development of dye-
sensitized thin-layer solar cells is presented, with the main focus on dyes, specially on d6 …

Demonstrating electron transfer and nanotechnology: a natural dye-sensitized nanocrystalline energy converter

GP Smestad, M Gratzel - Journal of chemical education, 1998 - ACS Publications
A unique solar cell fabrication procedure has been developed using natural anthocyanin
dyes extracted from berries. It can be reproduced with a minimum amount of resources in …

Oligothiophene-containing coumarin dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

K Hara, ZS Wang, T Sato, A Furube… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We have developed oligothiophene-containing coumarin dyes fully functionalized for dye-
sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells (DSSCs). DSSCs based on the dyes gave good …

Highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion with mercurochrome-sensitized nanoporous oxide semiconductor solar cells

K Hara, T Horiguchi, T Kinoshita, K Sayama… - Solar energy materials …, 2000 - Elsevier
Dye-sensitized solar cells based on nanoporous oxide semiconductor thin films such as
TiO2, Nb2O5, ZnO, SnO2, and In2O3 with mercurochrome as the sensitizer were …

Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells using red turnip and purple wild Sicilian prickly pear fruits

G Calogero, G Di Marco, S Cazzanti… - International journal of …, 2010 - mdpi.com
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were assembled by using the bougainvillea flowers, red
turnip and the purple wild Sicilian prickly pear fruit juice extracts as natural sensitizers of …