Introducing chenodeoxycholic acid coadsorbent and strong electron-withdrawing group in indoline dyes to design high-performance solar cells: a remarkably theoretical improvement

Author(s):  
Lemin Mao ◽  
Shuopan Dun ◽  
Hehe Ren ◽  
Jiamin Jiang ◽  
Xugeng Guo ◽  
...  

The addition of coadsorbents and the introduction of electron-withdrawing groups in dye sensitizers are considered to be feasible strategies for improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of dye-sensitized solar cells...

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 3720-3727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze-Min Ju ◽  
Hai-Lang Jia ◽  
Xue-Hai Ju ◽  
Xing-Fu Zhou ◽  
Zhi-Qiang Shi ◽  
...  

The overall power conversion efficiency (PCE) of DSSCs based on TTR1–3 with chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) coadsorbant are 5.20%, 5.71% and 6.30%, respectively, and the value of TTR3 is close to that of N719 (6.62%).


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 1381-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziming He ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Jianwei Miao ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Timothy Thatt Yang Tan

A simple solvothermal strategy is presented to prepare morphology-tunable hierarchical TiO2 microspheres, and the microsphere-based photoanode exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 7.95%.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (24) ◽  
pp. 12310-12321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamuna Ezhumalai ◽  
Byunghong Lee ◽  
Miao-Syuan Fan ◽  
Boris Harutyunyan ◽  
Kumaresan Prabakaran ◽  
...  

New branched alkyl tetrathienothiophene (TTAR)-based organic sensitizers with power conversion efficiency up to 11%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (37) ◽  
pp. 5042-5045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingling Tao ◽  
Zhe Sun ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Mao Liang ◽  
Song Xue

The combination of a zinc stannate photoanode and cobalt complex electrolyte in DSCs yields an impressive power conversion efficiency of 8.1%.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (69) ◽  
pp. 43403-43409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Yu-Fen Wang ◽  
Qiu-Ping Luo ◽  
Jian-Hua Ren ◽  
De-Jun Li ◽  
...  

3D hierarchical Zn2SnO4 with different sizes are fabricated via a one-step hydrothermal method. And the DSSCS devices based on Zn2SnO4 microspheres photoanode are designed. The 1.20 μm Zn2SnO4 microspheres show the best power conversion efficiency.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 674-678
Author(s):  
Shibing Zou ◽  
Lingting Song ◽  
Junhong Duan ◽  
Le Huang ◽  
Weiqing Liu ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (01-03) ◽  
pp. 175-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh D. Sharma ◽  
Galateia E. Zervaki ◽  
Kalliopi Ladomenou ◽  
Emmanuel N. Koukaras ◽  
Panagiotis P. Angaridis ◽  
...  

Two porphyrin dyads with the donor-π-acceptor molecular architecture, namely ( ZnP )-[triazine-gly]-( H 2 PCOOH ) and ( ZnP )-[triazine-Npip]-( H 2 PCOOH ), which consist of a zinc-metalated porphyrin unit and a free-base porphyrin unit covalently linked at their peripheries to a central triazine group, substituted either by a glycine in the former or a N-piperidine group in the latter, have been synthesized via consecutive amination substitution reactions of cyanuric chloride. The UV-vis absorption spectra and cyclic-voltammetry measurements of the two dyads, as well as theoretical calculations based on Density Functional Theory, suggest that they have suitable frontier orbital energy levels for use as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. Dye-sensitized solar cells based on ( ZnP )-[triazine-gly]-( H 2 PCOOH ) and ( ZnP )-[triazine-Npip]-( H 2 PCOOH ) have been fabricated, and they were found to exhibit power conversion efficiency values of 5.44 and 4.15%, respectively. Photovoltaic measurements (J–V curves) and incident photon to current conversion efficiency spectra of the two solar cells suggest that the higher power conversion efficiency value of the former solar cell is a result of its enhanced short circuit current, open circuit voltage, and fill factor values, as well as higher dye loading. This is ascribed to the existence of two carboxylic acid anchoring groups in ( ZnP )-[triazine-gly]-( H 2 PCOOH ), compared to one carboxylic acid group in ( ZnP )-[triazine-Npip]-( H 2 PCOOH ), which leads to a more effective binding onto the TiO 2 photoanode. Electrochemical impedance spectra show evidence that the ( ZnP )-[triazine-gly]-( H 2 PCOOH ) based solar cell exhibits a longer electron lifetime and more effective suppression of charge recombination reactions between the injected electrons and electrolyte.


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