Semiconducting metal oxide nanostructures for water splitting and photovoltaics

I Concina, ZH Ibupoto, A Vomiero - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metal oxide (MOx) semiconducting nanostructures hold the potential for playing a critical
role in the development of a new platform for renewable energies, including energy …

Metal oxide semiconductors for dye‐and quantum‐dot‐sensitized solar cells

I Concina, A Vomiero - Small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This Review provides a brief summary of the most recent research developments in the
synthesis and application of nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors for dye sensitized …

Enhanced photovoltaic properties in dye sensitized solar cells by surface treatment of SnO2 photoanodes

K Basu, D Benetti, H Zhao, L Jin, F Vetrone… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We report the fabrication and testing of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) based on tin oxide
(SnO2) particles of average size~ 20 nm. Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conducting glass …

Impact of TiO2 Nanostructures on Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Performance

P Gnida, P Jarka, P Chulkin, A Drygała, M Libera… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The effect of TiO2 nanostructures such as nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes on
photoanode properties, and dye-sensitized solar cells photovoltaic parameters were …

Natural dye extract from Cassia fistula and its application in dye-sensitized solar cell: Experimental and density functional theory studies

IC Maurya, S Singh, P Srivastava, B Maiti, L Bahadur - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural dye extracted from Cassia fistula (C. fistula) flower is used as photosensitizer to
fabricate titanium dioxide (TiO 2) based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). Ethanol was …

Metal-free organic dyes for TiO2 and ZnO dye-sensitized solar cells

GS Selopal, HP Wu, J Lu, YC Chang, M Wang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We report the synthesis and characterization of new metal-free organic dyes (namely B18,
BTD-R and CPTD-R) which designed with D-π-A concept to extending the light absorption …

Graphene below the percolation threshold in TiO 2 for dye-sensitized solar cells

KT Dembele, GS Selopal, R Milan, C Trudeau… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate a fast and large area-scalable methodology for the fabrication of efficient
dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by simple addition of graphene micro-platelets to TiO2 …

Effect of electron-withdrawing/-donating groups on the sensitizing action of the novel organic dye “3-(5-(4-(diphenylamino) styryl) thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid” …

A Sen, A Groβ - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational studies using density functional theory and time-dependent DFT approaches
have been performed to study a series of metal free donor− π-linker–acceptor (D− π–A) …

UV photodetector study based on Ce: ZnO nanostructures with different concentration of Ce dopant

M Banari, N Memarian, I Concina, A Vomiero - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
UV photodetectors (PDs) find pivotal roles across diverse domains like space exploration,
radiation monitoring, and electronics. Zinc oxide (ZnO), an n-type semiconductor with a wide …

Enhance cell performance of DSSC by dye mixture, carbon nanotube and post TiCl4 treatment along with degradation study

F Kabir, SN Sakib, SS Uddin, ET Efaz… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study employs betalain extract from beetroot and curcumin extract from turmeric as
sensitizer source for TiO 2 based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) that has completely …