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Revealing and Accelerating Slow Electron Transport in Amorphous Molybdenum Sulphide Particles for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Michael Graetzel, Xile Hu, Heron Vrubel, Thomas Moehl

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to identify a slow electron transport process in hydrogen evolution catalysed by amorphous molybdenum sulphides on glassy carbon. A new chemical synthesis leads to an amorphous molybdenum sulfide catalyst with ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

High Open-Circuit Voltages: Evidence for a Sensitizer-Induced TiO2 Conduction Band Shift in Ru(II)-Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Hoi Nok Tsao, Kuan-Lin Wu, Filippo de Angelis

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) represent a valuable, efficient, and low-cost alternative to conventional semiconductor photovoltaic devices. A deeper understanding of the interactions at the dye/semiconductor heterointerface is fundamental for future pro ...

American Chemical Society2013

Tridentate cobalt complexes as alternative redox couples for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kaïs Ben Aribia, Thomas Moehl

Cobalt terpyridine complexes could rival the classical triiodide/iodide redox couple as efficient alternative redox couples for dye-sensitized solar cells. Cobalt bis(2,2',6',2 ''-terpyridine) complexes enable systematic tuning of the redox potential by va ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

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

Temperature Dependence of Transport Properties of Spiro-MeOTAD as a Hole Transport Material in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Amalie Dualeh

The internal transport and recombination parameters of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSCs) using the amorphous organic semiconductor 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9'-spirobtfluorene (spiro-MeOTAD) as a hole transport materia ...

American Chemical Society2013

Effect of Interfacial Engineering in Solid-State Nanostructured Sb2S3 Heterojunction Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Lioz Etgar, Thomas Moehl, Takafumi Fukumoto

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2013

A New Heteroleptic Ruthenium Sensitizer for Transparent Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nuttapol Pootrakulchote, Thomas Moehl, Miao Chen

A new heteroleptic ruthenium complex, coded CYC-B19, incorporating an ancillary ligand endowed with hexylthio-bithiophene segments and a conjugated anchoring ligand with vinyl groups was prepared. This new sensitizer exhibits a lower energy MLCT band centr ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2012

Influence of cations of the electrolyte on the performance and stability of dye sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Philippe Wyss, Thomas Moehl

The electrolyte is one of the key components for DSC and its properties have great influence on the photo-conversion efficiency and stability of the devices. Five new low volatile electrolytes containing 3-methoxypropionitrile (MPN) as solvent were prepare ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Light Energy Conversion by Mesoscopic PbS Quantum Dots/TiO2 Heterojunction Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Lioz Etgar, Thomas Moehl

Solid state PbS quantum dots (QDs)/TiO2 heterojunction solar cells were produced by depositing PbS QDs on a 500 nm thick mesoscopic TiO2 films using layer-by-layer deposition. Importantly, the PbS QDs act here as photosensitizers and at the same time as ho ...

American Chemical Society2012

Lead Iodide Perovskite Sensitized All-Solid-State Submicron Thin Film Mesoscopic Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 9%

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Robin Humphry-Baker, Arianna Marchioro, Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Thomas Moehl, Jeong-Hyeok Im

We report on solid-state mesoscopic heterojunction solar cells employing nanoparticles (NPs) of methyl ammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3)PbI3 as light harvesters. The perovskite NPs were produced by reaction of methylammonium iodide with PbI2 and deposited onto ...

2012

A cobalt complex redox shuttle for dye-sensitized solar cells with high open-circuit potentials

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Arianna Marchioro, Takeru Bessho, Jun Ho Yum, Elham Ghadiri, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi

Dye-sensitized solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional inorganic semiconductor- based solar cells. Here we report an open-circuit voltage of over 1,000 mV in mesoscopic dye- sensitized solar cells incorporating a molecularly engineered cobal ...

Nature Research2012

Influence of Donor Groups of Organic D-pi-A Dyes on Open-Circuit Voltage in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Amalie Dualeh, Filippo de Angelis

In solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSCs), the poor pore filling of the mesoporous semiconductor and the short diffusion length of charge carriers, in the hole-transport material (HTM) have limited the mesoscopic titania layer to a thickness of 2- ...

American Chemical Society2012

High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with Three-Dimensional Photoanode

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet, Nicolas Tétreault, Thomas Moehl, Leo-Philipp Heiniger

Herein, we present a straightforward bottom-up synthesis of a high electron mobility and highly light scattering macroporous photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells. The dense three-dimensional Al/ZnO, SnO2, or TiO2 host integrates a conformal passivatio ...

American Chemical Society2011

Energy and Hole Transfer between Dyes Attached to Titania in Cosensitized Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Thomas Moehl, Peng Wang

Cosensitization of broadly absorbing ruthenium metal complex dyes with highly absorptive near-infrared (NIR) organic dyes is a clear pathway to increase near-infrared light harvesting in liquid- based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). In cosensitized DSCs ...

2011

Passivating surface states on water splitting hematite photoanodes with alumina overlayers

Michael Graetzel, Maurin Cornuz, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Nicolas Tétreault, Thomas Moehl

Hematite is a promising material for inexpensive solar energy conversion via water splitting but has been limited by the large overpotential (0.5-0.6 V) that must be applied to afford high water oxidation photocurrent. This has conventionally been addresse ...

2011

Cyclopentadithiophene Bridged Donor-Acceptor Dyes Achieve High Power Conversion Efficiencies in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on the tris-Cobalt Bipyridine Redox Couple

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Hoi Nok Tsao

2011

An Organic D-pi-A Dye for Record Efficiency Solid-State Sensitized Heterojunction Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Soo-Jin Moon, Thomas Moehl, Peng Wang

The high molar absorption coefficient organic D-pi-A dye C220 exhibits more than 6% certified electric power conversion efficiency at AM 1.5G solar irradiation (100 mW cm(-2)) in a solid-state dye sensitized solar cell using 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-dimethox ...

American Chemical Society2011

High-Efficiency Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Fast Charge Extraction through Self-Assembled 3D Fibrous Network of Crystalline TiO2 Nanowires

László Forró, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Arnaud Magrez, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet, Nicolas Tétreault, Rita Smajda, Endre Horvath, Thomas Moehl, Peng Wang

Herein, we present a novel morphology for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on the simple and straightforward self-assembly of nanorods into a 3D fibrous network of fused single-crystalline anatase nanowires. This architecture offers a high roug ...

American Chemical Society2010

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