How to Optimize the Interface between Photosensitizers and TiO2 Nanocrystals with Molecular Engineering to Enhance Performances of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells?

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 25341-25351

  Zheng, Jiaxin ^a   Zhang, Kai ^b   Fang, Yanyan ^c   Zuo, Yunxing ^a   Duan, Yandong ^a   Zhuo, Zengqing ^a,d   Chen, Xuanming ^b   Yang, Wanli ^d   Lin, Yuan ^a,c   Wong, Man Shing ^b   Pan, Feng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ab initio calculations; DSSCs; electronic structure; interface; metal free photosensitizer; steric effect

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CELL ENGINEERING; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; DSSCS; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; METAL FREE; MOLECULAR ENGINEERING; OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; STERIC EFFECT;

PHOTOSENSITIZERS;

EID: 84947799740     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07591     Document Type: Article

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