Rationalization of dye uptake on titania slides for dye-sensitized solar cells by a combined chemometric and structural approach

ChemSusChem

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3039-3052

  Gianotti, Valentina ^a   Favaro, Giada ^a   Bonandini, Luca ^b,c   Palin, Luca ^a   Croce, Gianluca ^a   Boccaleri, Enrico ^a   Artuso, Emma ^b   Van Beek, Wouter ^d   Barolo, Claudia ^b   Milanesio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c DYEPOWER Viale Castro ^*  (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Density functional calculations; Dyes pigments; Titanium; UV Vis spectroscopy; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MOLECULES; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; CONFORMATIONAL STABILITIES; DYES/PIGMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; REGRESSION MODEL; STRUCTURAL APPROACH; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; UV/ VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; COLORING AGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; COLORING AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84918514836     PISSN: 18645631     EISSN: 1864564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201402194     Document Type: Article

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