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Novel Blue Organic Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieving High Efficiency in Cobalt-Based Electrolytes and by Co-Sensitization

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kazuteru Nonomura, Yasemin Saygili

Blue and green dyes as well as NIR-absorbing dyes have attracted great interest because of their excellent ability of absorbing the incident photons in the red and near-infrared range region. A novel blue D-pi-A dye (Dyenamo Blue), based on the diketopyrro ...

2016

Preparation, kinetics, mechanism and properties of semi-transparent photocatalytic stable films active in dye degradation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Christophe Roussel, Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

The photocatalytic activity, mechanism and characterization of polyethylene-TiO2 films (PE-TiO2) during the discoloration/degradation of methylene blue (MB) are reported in this study. PE-TiO2 films were prepared at moderate temperatures (similar to 90 deg ...

Elsevier2016

Development of high efficiency 100% aqueous cobalt electrolyte dye-sensitised solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

In this study we report the application of three cobalt redox shuttles in 100% aqueous electrolyte dyesensitised solar cells (DSCs). By using chloride as a counter-ion for cobalt bipyridine, cobalt phenanthroline and cobalt bipyridine pyrazole, the redox s ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Synthetic chemistry with nitrous oxide

Kay Severin

This review article summarizes efforts to use nitrous oxide (N2O, ‘laughing gas’) as a reagent in synthetic chemistry. The focus will be on reactions which are carried out in homogeneous solution under (relatively) mild conditions. First, the utilization o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Spherical superstructures of oxide nanoparticles for catalytic reactions in microchemical reactors

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Josias Basil Wacker

We report the fabrication of spherical superstructures composed of SiO2 and TiO2 nanoparticles and their applications in catalyzing organic reactions. Assembling of the nanoparticles into superstructures is done by heating a water-in-oil micro-emulsion, wh ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Influence of Dye Architecture of Triphenylamine Based Organic Dyes on the Kinetics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Gunther Wittstock

The impact of the dye architecture on the kinetics in the dyesensitized solar cell (DSC) was investigated for two structurally similar organic dyes, adsorbed adsorbed to a mesoporous TiO2 film. Differences in the HOMO and LUMO levels of the triphenylamine ...

American Chemical Society2015

Molecular Engineering of Pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Donor-Acceptor-pi- Acceptor Organic Sensitizers: Effect of Auxiliary Acceptor in Cobalt- and Iodine-Based Electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fabrizio Giordano, Jean-David Décoppet

Due to the ease of tuning its redox potential, the cobalt-based redox couple has been extensively applied for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with extraordinarily high photovoltages. However, a cobalt electrolyte needs particular struct ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Synthesis of poly(ethylene-co-butylene)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) surfactant and its use in the synthesis of polyhydroxyethyl methacrylate nanoparticles containing azo-dye

Thomas Geiger, Yee Song Ko

A synthetic path to poly(ethylene-co-butylene)-block-poly(ethylene oxide), a substitute for the "KLE" surfactant was developed. For this purpose, mono hydroxyl end-functionalized poly(ethylene-co-butylene) (similar to 3800 g mol(-1)) was modified with a tr ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Molecular Engineering of Organic Dyes for Improved Recombination Lifetime in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Thomas Moehl, Julian Burschka

A major limitation of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells is a short electron diffusion length, which is due to fast recombination between electrons in the TiO2 electron-transporting layer and holes in the 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine) ...

American Chemical Society2013