Dye-sensitized solar cells: Fundamentals, recent progress, and Optoelectrical properties improvement strategies

PS Saud, A Bist, AA Kim, A Yousef, A Abutaleb, M Park… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The better optical and electrical properties provide successful dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSSCs) only when the energy alignment between the different materials is matched. When …

TiO2–ZnO/Au ternary heterojunction nanocomposite: excellent antibacterial property and visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production efficiency

Y Liang, W Li, X Wang, R Zhou, H Ding - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract TiO 2–ZnO/Au ternary heterojunction nanocomposite was fabricated by producing
TiO 2 nanosheets first using solvent-thermal method followed by Au deposition and ZnO …

ZnO nanostructures–Future frontiers in photocatalysis, solar cells, sensing, supercapacitor, fingerprint technologies, toxicity, and clinical diagnostics

AA Ansari, R Lv, S Gai, AK Parchur, PR Solanki… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Zinc is the most abundant and broadly studied metal oxide semiconductor. Its photophysical
properties include optical, electrical, magnetic, catalytic, sensing, energy storage …

Synergetic effect of TiO 2/ZnO bilayer photoanodes realizing exceptionally high V OC for dye-sensitized solar cells under outdoor and indoor illumination

A Jagadeesh, G Veerappan, PS Devi… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Harnessing energy from the surrounding light using indoor photovoltaics has gained
momentum to address the carbon footprint resulting from used and dead batteries. Dye …

Investigating the effect of ZrO2 nanofibers in ZnO-based photoanodes to increase dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) efficiency: inspecting the porosity and charge …

M Abrari, M Ahmadi, HM Chenari, M Ghanaatshoar - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
This study is aimed to improve the performance of zinc oxide (ZnO) photoanodes in dye-
sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by exploiting the superior charge transport properties in …

Synergistic effect and enhanced charge transfer in Nb2O5-rGO/TiO2 photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells

S Vibavakumar, KD Nisha, J Archana, M Navaneethan… - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Effective electron transport at the photoanode/FTO interface is an important step in achieving
superior performance of DSSC. This work focuses on improving the charge transfer process …

Synergistically improved photovoltaic performances of dye-sensitized solar cells with metal-free organic cosensitizer and hybrid rGO-TiO2 photoanode

K Subalakshmi, W Chung, S Lee - Dyes and Pigments, 2023 - Elsevier
The photovoltaic performances of the dye-sensitized solar cells were considerably improved
via comprising the device structure with the metal-free organic dye cosensitizer and the …

Impact of coupled plasmonic effect with multishaped silver nanoparticles on efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells

R Selvapriya, T Abhijith, V Ragavendran… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have numerous advantages, but in order to use
widespread industrial deployment we need to boost the power conversion efficiency. One …

Continuous solar desalination of brackish water via a monolithically integrated redox flow device

G Mohandass, T Kim, S Krishnan - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
Several water/salt separation processes are currently being developed to employ sunlight
for sustainable water desalination. Here, we report a redox flow process for solar …

Glycerol-supportive Y3+ infused TiO2 nanoparticles: An electrode material for dye sensitized solar cell and supercapacitor applications

M Shobana, P Balraju, N Muthukumarasamy… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present research objective is to synthesize an active electrode material for dual
application of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and supercapacitors (SCs). In this study …