Titanium dioxide nanomaterials for photovoltaic applications

Y Bai, I Mora-Sero, F De Angelis, J Bisquert… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The continuous increase of the world's population, together with the substantial
development of industry has brought about imperious demand for larger energy …

Probing the Optical Property and Electronic Structure of TiO2 Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy Applications

M Kapilashrami, Y Zhang, YS Liu, A Hagfeldt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The world's energy consumption is predicted to grow by 56% by the year 2040, from 520
quadrillion Btu pa in 2010 to 820 quadrillion Btu/pa, as reported by the US Energy …

Advanced capabilities of the PYXAID program: integration schemes, decoherence effects, multiexcitonic states, and field-matter interaction

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In our previous work [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013, 9, 4959], we introduced the PYXAID
program, developed for the purpose of performing nonadiabatic molecular dynamics …

Theoretical insights into photoinduced charge transfer and catalysis at oxide interfaces

AV Akimov, AJ Neukirch, OV Prezhdo - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
As the world's population increases and substantial industrial growth continues, the energy
demands of society increase rapidly. Although the earth's oil, natural gas, and coal deposits …

Chemical design of organic interface modifiers for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

SG Kim, K Zhu - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have demonstrated rapid progress in their power conversion
efficiencies (PCEs)—from 3.8% in 2009 to 25.7% in 2022—and they have received …

Large-scale computations in chemistry: a bird's eye view of a vibrant field

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1.1. The Meaning of “Large Scale” In general, the term “large scale” can have one of the
following five meanings in computational chemistry:(1) large size: power-law and …

High-throughput screening of rattling-induced ultralow lattice thermal conductivity in semiconductors

J Li, W Hu, J Yang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric (TE) materials with rattling model show ultralow lattice thermal conductivity
for high-efficient energy conversion between heat and electricity. In this work, by analysis of …

Efficient computational screening of organic polymer photovoltaics

IY Kanal, SG Owens, JS Bechtel… - The journal of physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
There has been increasing interest in rational, computationally driven design methods for
materials, including organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Our approach focuses on a screening …

Theoretical studies of dye-sensitised solar cells: from electronic structure to elementary processes

N Martsinovich, A Troisi - Energy & Environmental Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A full understanding of the elementary processes taking place in dye-sensitised solar cells
requires an accurate description of the electronic structure of the dyes, the semiconductor …

Computational modelling of TiO 2 surfaces sensitized by organic dyes with different anchoring groups: adsorption modes, electronic structure and implication for …

M Pastore, F De Angelis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a Density Functional Theory investigation aimed to model the possible
adsorption modes to the TiO2 surface of two representative TPA-based dyes, termed L0 and …