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Interfacial engineering for competitive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells production

Renewable energy deployment and implementation of a circular economy will play a crucial role in decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the target from the Paris agreement. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can be designed in various colors and transparency for ...

EPFL2021

Photoanode/Electrolyte Interface Stability in Aqueous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Guido Viscardi

O'Regan and Gratzel conceived a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), which operates as an artificial photosynthetic system converting solar light into electricity. Nevertheless, it is only recently that the scientific community is focusing on truly aqueous DS ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Interfacial Electron Injection Probed by a Substrate-Specific Excitonic Signature

Majed Chergui, Edoardo Baldini, Enrico Pomarico, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Malte Oppermann, Tania Palmieri, Gerald Auböck

Ultrafast interfacial electron transfer in sensitized solar cells has mostly been probed by visible-to-terahertz radiation, which is sensitive to the free carriers in the conduction band of the semiconductor substrate. Here; we demonstrate the use of deep- ...

American Chemical Society2017

Interfacial Electron Injection Probed by a Substrate-Specific Excitonic Signature

Majed Chergui, Edoardo Baldini, Enrico Pomarico, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Malte Oppermann, Tania Palmieri, Gerald Auböck

2017

A study of oligothiophene-acceptor dyes in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Lei Zhang, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Liu

Two new dyes, E1 and E2, equipped with triphenylamine as the electron donor, oligothiophene as the linker and different electron acceptor groups, have been designed and synthesized as photosensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSCs). A syste ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Rationalizing Fluorescence Quenching in meso-BODIPY Dyes

Alberto Fabrizio, Antonio Prlj

meso-Substituted boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dyes are a puzzling class of molecules, which feature contrasting emissive behaviors. The full mechanistic picture for these distinctive properties is still missing. Using static and dynamic excited state comp ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Preparation of cationic azo compounds

Kay Severin, Alexander Tskhovrebov

The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing cationic azo compounds, which preferably can be used as dyes. Further, the invention relates to novel cationic azo compounds and the use of N2O in the synthesis of azo-imidazolium dyes. ...

2016

Comparative studies on rigid π linker-based organic dyes: Structure-property relationships and photovoltaic performance

Ho Ling Li, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yan Hao

© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. A series of six structurally correlated donor-π bridge-acceptor organic dyes were designed, synthesized, and applied as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. Using the most widely studied donor (triarylamine) a ...

2014

A Material Approach to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Philippe Pierre Labouchère

With growing concerns on future energy supplies, solar energy appears as an energy source whose potential remains to be tapped at a large scale. In the last two decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been considered as a competitive means to conve ...

EPFL2014

Melt-infiltration of spiro-OMeTAD and thermal instability of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

A method for achieving complete pore-filling in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells termed meltinfiltration is presented: after the customary solution-processed deposition of spiro-OMeTAD, the device is heated above the glass transition temperature of s ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

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