Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Perspectives on dye sensitization of nanocrystalline mesoporous thin films

K Hu, RN Sampaio, J Schneider… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in our mechanistic understanding of dye-sensitized electron transfer
reactions occurring at metal oxide interfaces are described. These advances were enabled …

Highly Efficient Photoelectrochemical Alkene Epoxidation on a Dye-Sensitized Photoanode

Y Zhu, X Li, Z Wen, R Zhao, Z Chen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells, selective oxidation of organic substrates coupled with
hydrogen evolution represents a promising approach for value-added chemical production …

Impact of Molecular Orientation on Lateral and Interfacial Electron Transfer at Oxide Interfaces

Q Loague, ND Keller, AV Müller… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dyes, called sensitizers, with a cis-[Ru (LL)(dcb)(NCS) 2] structure, where dcb is 4,
4′-(CO2H) 2-2, 2′-bipyridine and LL is dcb or a different diimine ligand, are among the …

Combined theoretical and experimental characterizations of semiconductors for photoelectrocatalytic applications

T Le Bahers, K Takanabe - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Photoelectrocatalysis studies have emerged tremendous knowledge and experience, which
has led to discovery of a number of active materials. Due to complexity of the processes …

Evidence that ΔS Controls Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics from Anatase TiO2 to Molecular Acceptors

L Troian-Gautier, BN DiMarco… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recombination of electrons injected into TiO2 with molecular acceptors present at the
interface represents an important loss mechanism in dye-sensitized water oxidation and …

Water oxidation by a noble metal-free photoanode modified with an organic dye and a molecular cobalt catalyst

Y Zhu, D Wang, W Ni, GG Gurzadyan, L Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A low-cost and easy-to-construct dye-sensitized photoanode for water oxidation was
prepared by co-loading a new triphenylamine donor–acceptor organic chromophore (D1) …

Factors influencing the photoelectrochemical device performance sensitized by ruthenium polypyridyl dyes

I Purnama, M Abe, M Hada, Y Kubo, JY Mulyana - Dalton Transactions, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (DSPECs) incorporating a family of
ruthenium complexes [RuII (bipyP)(bipy) 2](P1),[RuII (bipyP)(dmb) 2](P2),[RuII (bipyP)(dtbb) …

Interfacial Electron Transfer in Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Devices for Solar Energy Conversion

AV Müller, WM Wierzba, MN Pastorelli… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
The development of cost-effective molecular devices that efficiently capture and convert
sunlight into other useful forms of energy is a promising approach to meet the world's …

An Insulating Al2O3 Overlayer Prevents Lateral Hole Hopping Across Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Surfaces

MD Brady, L Troian-Gautier, TC Motley… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Three chromophores of the general form [Ru (bpy′) 2 (4, 4′-(PO3H2) 2-2, 2′-bipyridine)]
2+, where bpy′ is 4, 4′-(C (CH3) 3) 2-2, 2′-bipyridine (Ru (dtb) 2P); 4, 4′-(CH3O) 2-2 …