Among the several approaches for harnessing solar energy and converting it into electricity,
dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represent one of the most promising methods for future …

Nature has chosen chlorophylls in plants as antennae to harvest light for the conversion of
solar energy in complicated photosynthetic processes. Inspired by natural photosynthesis …

This review summarizes recent advances in the use of porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and
related compounds as components of solar cells, including organic molecular solar cells …

Recently, dye-sensitized solar cells have attracted much attention relevant to global
environmental issues. Thus far, ruthenium (II) bipyridyl complexes have proven to be the …

“Anything that exists must be possible.” is often referred to as KE Boulding's First Law. 1 For
example, nanoscale photonic devices exist that harvest light and convert it to …

We present a single-determinant approach to three challenging topics in the chemistry of
excited states: double excitations, charge-transfer states, and conical intersections. The …

The most efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have had essentially the same
configuration (nanoparticle TiO2 sensitized with [Ru (4, 4′-dicarboxy-2, 2′-bipyridine) 2 …

Porphyrin-based dyes recently have become good candidates for dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSCs). However, the bottleneck is how to further improve their light-harvesting ability. In this …

Dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are a promising source of renewable energy. However,
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of devices has been limited largely by the difficulty of …

Bacterichlorins possess a characteristic intense electronic absorption in the near-infrared
part of the electromagnetic radiation (NIR) from 700 nm up to 900 nm, where endogenous …