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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

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

Jérôme Waser, Marion Marie-Agnès Garreau, Stephanie Grace Elizabeth Amos, Luca Buzzetti

Organic dyes have emerged as a reliable class of photoredox catalysts. Their great structural variety combined with the easy finetuning of their electronic properties has unlocked new possibilities for the generation of reactive intermediates. In this revi ...

2020

Lateral Intermolecular Electronic Interactions of Diketopyrrolopyrrole D−π–A Solar Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Alumina

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Heewon Bahng

The development of push−pull organic dyes utilizing the donor−(π-conjugated bridge)−acceptor (D−π−A) motif has induced a paradigm shift in the design of efficient nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), offering control over the aesthetic prope ...

2018

The fate of charge carriers in solar materials investigated by time resolved X-ray and optical spectroscopy

Fabio Giacomo Santomauro

This thesis investigates the photoinduced charge carrier dynamics of TiO2 nanoparticles and CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br) nanocrystals, by means of ultrafast x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS). TiO2 is among the most prom ...

EPFL2017

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The 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) pi-bridge is one of the most commonly used building blocks for sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We investigated its influence on the molecular structure, the photophysical and electrochemical properti ...

Chinese Chemical Soc2017

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

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

Influence of Dye Architecture of Triphenylamine Based Organic Dyes on the Kinetics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Gunther Wittstock

The impact of the dye architecture on the kinetics in the dyesensitized solar cell (DSC) was investigated for two structurally similar organic dyes, adsorbed adsorbed to a mesoporous TiO2 film. Differences in the HOMO and LUMO levels of the triphenylamine ...

American Chemical Society2015

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Electron injection from a photoexcited molecular sensitizer into a wide-bandgap semiconductor is the primary step toward charge separation in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). According to the current understanding of DSSCs functioning mechanism, charges ...

American Chemical Society2015

Dynamics of Interfacial Electron Transfer from Betanin to Nanocrystalline TiO2: The Pursuit of Two-Electron Injection

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Arianna Marchioro

We report spectroelectrochemical and transient absorption spectroscopic studies of electron injection from the plant pigment betanin (Bt) to nanocrystalline TiO2. Spectroelectrochemical experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used ...

American Chemical Society2015