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Advanced High-Throughput Rational Design of Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Interpretable Machine Learning

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Aswani Yella

Accurately predicting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represents a crucial challenge, one that is pivotal for the high throughput rational design and screening of promising dye sensitizers. This study presents pr ...

2024

Dye-sensitized solar cells using cobalt electrolytes: the influence of porosity and pore size to achieve high-efficiency

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella, Pascal Comte, Sadig Aghazada, Simon Mathew

Diffusion impediments in redox shuttles are a major limitation to realizing high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using cobalt complexes. Mass transport limitations are strongly dependent on the pore size and the po ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Organic Dyes Containing Coplanar Dihexyl-Substituted Dithienosilole Groups for Efficient Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Ravindranathan Thampi, Aswani Yella

A chromophore containing a coplanar dihexyl-substituted dithienosilole (CL1) synthesised for use in dye-sensitised solar cells displayed an energy conversion efficiency of 6.90% under AM 1.5 sunlight irradiation. The new sensitiser showed a similar fill fa ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2017

Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine as an Electron Deficient pi-Bridge in D-A-pi-A DSCs

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella

Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine (TPz) is examined as an electron deficient pi-bridge enabling near-infrared (NIR) spectral access in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Seven dissymmetric dyes for DSCs were synthesized (NL2-NL8) with TPz as the pi-bridge utilizing pa ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Solar cell and process for producing the same

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella

The present invention relates to photoanodes, solar cells and methods and processes for producing the same. In some embodiments, the solar cells of the invention can do without a sintered nanoporous scaffold layer, making it possible to produce the solar c ...

2016

Unraveling the Dual Character of Sulfur Atoms on Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Thomas Moehl, Peng Gao, Aswani Yella, Joël Teuscher, Sadig Aghazada

Cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers have been synthesized that differ with number of thiophene units on the auxiliary ligands. Sensitizers possessing four (SA25, SA246, and SA285) or none (SA282) sulfur atoms in their structures, were tested in solar cell ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Molecular Design Principles for Near-Infrared Absorbing and Emitting Indolizine Dyes

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella, Aron Joel Huckaba

Desirable components for dye-sensitzed solar cell ( DSC) sensitizers and fluorescent imaging dyes include strong donating building blocks coupled with well-balanced acceptor functionalities for absorption beyond the visible range. We have evaluated the eff ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Unravel the Impact of Anchoring Groups on the Photovoltaic Performances of Diketopyrrolopyrrole Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella, Peng Gao, Thomas Wesley Holcombe, Paramaguru Ganesan

Two D-pi-A dyes, one with a strong electron withdrawing cyanoacrylic acid DPP 20 and one with a weak acceptor carboxylic acid DPP 21 have been synthesized and characterized for their application in dye-sensitized solar cells. This allows us to understand t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

An Optically Transparent Iron Nickel Oxide Catalyst for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Aswani Yella, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Sunlight-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel is an attractive method for renewable energy conversion. Tandem photoelectrochemical water splitting devices utilize two photoabsorbers to harvest the sunlight and drive the water splitting reaction. ...

2015

Electron Kinetics in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Employing Anatase with (101) and (001) Facets

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Ladislav Kavan, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella

Two phase-pure nanocrystalline anatase materials differing in the exposed crystal facets (001) or (101) are studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and by transient photovoltage and photocurrent decay in dye sensitized solar cells. A larger chemi ...

Elsevier2015