Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells

FH Isikgor, S Zhumagali, LV T. Merino… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Metal-oxide-based charge-transport layers have played a pivotal role in the progress of
perovskite solar cells. Yet metal-oxide/perovskite interfaces are often highly defective, owing …

Toward sustainable, colorless, and transparent photovoltaics: State of the art and perspectives for the development of selective near‐infrared dye‐sensitized solar …

F Grifoni, M Bonomo, W Naim… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dye‐sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is one of the promising photovoltaic (PV) technologies for
applications requiring high aesthetic features combined with energy production such as …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Finding the way to solar fuels with dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cells

MK Brennaman, RJ Dillon, L Alibabaei… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell (DSPEC) integrates high bandgap,
nanoparticle oxide semiconductors with the light-absorbing and catalytic properties of …

Ruthenium complexes based dye sensitized solar cells: Fundamentals and research trends

N Tomar, A Agrawal, VS Dhaka, PK Surolia - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is one of the most capable solar cell devices to transform
sunlight directly into electricity. DSSC can revolutionize the solar energy industry due to its …

Recent progress and utilization of natural pigments in dye sensitized solar cells: A review

N Kumara, A Lim, CM Lim, MI Petra… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Although efficiency of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) is still below the
performance level of the market dominance silicon solar cells, in the last two decades DSSC …

Review on the recent progress of carbon counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

M Chen, LL Shao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbon counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted great
interest recently because of their low cost, excellent catalytic activity, and superior chemical …

Carbon counter electrodes in dye‐sensitized and perovskite solar cells

M Wu, M Sun, H Zhou, JY Ma… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Developing highly effective and stable counter electrode (CE) materials to replace rare and
expensive noble metals for dye‐sensitized and perovskite solar cells (DSC and PSC) is a …

Accelerating ultrafast processes in hydrogen-bonded complexes under pressure

Q Li, L Zhu, Y Wan, Y Wan, J Gao, H Yin… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Acceleration of ultrafast processes is vital in hydrogen-bonded coumarin–methanol
complexes for improving the photoelectric conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells …

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …