Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Molecular engineering strategies for fabricating efficient porphyrin-based dye-sensitized solar cells

K Zeng, Z Tong, L Ma, WH Zhu, W Wu… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), as a cost effective and eco-friendly photovoltaic
technology for utilizing solar energy, are promising in meeting the increasing demand of …

Doubly Strapped Zwitterionic NIR‐I and NIR‐II Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes for Bioconjugation and Fluorescence Imaging

DH Li, RS Gamage, AG Oliver, NL Patel… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heptamethine cyanine dyes enable deep tissue fluorescence imaging in the near infrared
(NIR) window. Small molecule conjugates of the benchmark dye ZW800‐1 have been tested …

Efficient solar cells based on concerted companion dyes containing two complementary components: an alternative approach for cosensitization

K Zeng, Y Chen, WH Zhu, H Tian… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the purpose to achieve panchromatic absorption for constructing efficient dye-
sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), the cosensitization approach of using two dyes with …

Applications of porphyrins in emerging energy conversion technologies

JM Park, JH Lee, WD Jang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Porphyrins are composed of four pyrrolic subunits interconnected via methine bridges to
form fully conjugated 18 π electron-containing aromatic macrocycles. This macrocyclic …

Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells based on a new class of doubly concerted companion dyes

J Zou, Y Wang, G Baryshnikov, J Luo… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To develop efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), concerted companion (CC) dyes
XW60–XW63 constructed from the covalent linkage of a strapped porphyrin dye unit and an …

Molecular designs, synthetic strategies, and properties for porphyrins as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Y Zhang, T Higashino, H Imahori - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
During the past decades, many efforts have been made to develop porphyrin sensitizers for
dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) due to their easy fabrication, low-cost production, and …

Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells based on concerted companion dyes: systematic optimization of thiophene units in the organic dye components

J Luo, Z Xie, J Zou, X Wu, X Gong, C Li, Y Xie - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
To develop efficient concerted companion (CC) dyes for fabricating high-performance
DSSCs, three organic dyes XL1-XL3 have been designed by varying the position and …

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 …

Conjugated porous polymers for photocatalysis: The road from catalytic mechanism, molecular structure to advanced applications

S Qiao, M Di, JX Jiang, BH Han - EnergyChem, 2022 - Elsevier
With the excessive consumption and dependence on non-renewable energy, it is urgent to
seek sustainable clean energy. Using solar energy to yield target product is one of the main …