Anchoring groups for dye-sensitized solar cells

L Zhang, JM Cole - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2015 - ACS Publications
The dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) require one or more chemical substituents
that can act as an anchor, enabling their adsorption onto a metal oxide substrate. This …

Cosensitization in dye-sensitized solar cells

JM Cole, G Pepe, OK Al Bahri, CB Cooper - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are a next-generation photovoltaic technology, whose
natural transparency and good photovoltaic output under ambient light conditions afford …

Design‐to‐device approach affords panchromatic co‐sensitized solar cells

CB Cooper, EJ Beard… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Data‐driven materials discovery has become increasingly important in identifying materials
that exhibit specific, desirable properties from a vast chemical search space. Synergic …

Advancing panchromatic effect for efficient sensitization of cyanine and hemicyanine-based dye-sensitized solar cells

EN Bifari, P Almeida, RM El-Shishtawy - Materials Today Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming and rising energy needs have prompted a renewed interest in alternative
energy technologies. In recent years, dye-sensitized solar cells have gained substantial …

Automatic Prediction of Peak Optical Absorption Wavelengths in Molecules Using Convolutional Neural Networks

SG Jung, G Jung, JM Cole - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular design depends heavily on optical properties for applications such as solar cells
and polymer-based batteries. Accurate prediction of these properties is essential, and …

Role of co-sensitization in dye-sensitized and quantum dot-sensitized solar cells

S Ananthakumar, D Balaji, J Ram Kumar… - SN Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Novel materials for third generation solar cells have emerged as one of the major scientific
contribution in alternative energy approaches. In this scenario, semiconductor …

Molecular engineering of cyanine dyes to design a panchromatic response in co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells

G Pepe, JM Cole, PG Waddell… - Molecular Systems Design …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Cyanines are optically tunable dyes with high molar extinction coefficients, suitable for
applications in co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs); yet, barely thus applied. This …

Molecular engineering of fluorescein dyes as complementary absorbers in dye co-sensitized solar cells

G Pepe, JM Cole, PG Waddell… - Molecular Systems Design …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescein dye derivatives exhibit extended optical absorption up to 500 nm, rendering
these compounds suitable as co-absorbers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). A …

Discovery of S···CN Intramolecular Bonding in a Thiophenylcyanoacrylate-Based Dye: Realizing Charge Transfer Pathways and Dye···TiO2 Anchoring …

JM Cole, MA Blood-Forsythe, TC Lin… - … Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Donor− π–acceptor dyes containing thiophenyl π-conjugated units and cyanoacrylate
acceptor groups are among the best-performing organic chromophores used in dye …

Cosensitization-based halide perovskite in aqueous solution: A photoelectrochemical and first-principles investigation

L Zhang, S Lin - Materials Research Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
The halide perovskite films suffer from poor photoelectrochemical performance in aqueous
solution, inhibiting their further industrial deployment. Here, we propose a new concept of …