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Bipodal dyes with bichromic triphenylamine architectures for use in dye-sensitized solar cell applications.

ABSTRACT: A family of four bipodal triphenylamine-based dyes, three of which incorporate two triphenylamine (TPA) units, have been studied to understand their potential in light-harvesting applications. Compared to previously reported TPA-based dyes, these exhibit improved device performance. Theoretical calculations correlate excited state dipole moments to device efficiency.

SUBMITTER: Abdi OK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092084 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bipodal dyes with bichromic triphenylamine architectures for use in dye-sensitized solar cell applications.

Abdi Omar K OK Fischer Benjamin J D BJD Al-Faouri Tamara T Buguis Francis L FL Devgan Hardeep S HS Schott Eduardo E Zarate Ximena X Koivisto Bryan D BD

RSC advances 20181219 74

A family of four bipodal triphenylamine-based dyes, three of which incorporate two triphenylamine (TPA) units, have been studied to understand their potential in light-harvesting applications. Compared to previously reported TPA-based dyes, these exhibit improved device performance. Theoretical calculations correlate excited state dipole moments to device efficiency. ...[more]

PMID: 35558410

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Project description:Herein, we present a thorough photovoltaic investigation of four triphenylamine organic sensitizers with D-π-A configurations and compare their photovoltaic performances to the conventional ruthenium-based sensitizer N719. SFA-5-8 are synthesized and utilized as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) applications. The effects of the donor unit (triphenylamine), π-conjugation bridge (thiophene ring), and various acceptors (phenylacetonitrile and 2-cyanoacetamide derivatives) were investigated. Moreover, this was asserted by profound calculations of HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital) and LUMO (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) energy levels, the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), and natural bond orbital (NBO) that had been studied for the TPA-sensitizers. Theoretical density functional theory (DFT) was performed to study the distribution of electron density between donor and acceptor moieties. The sensitization by the absorption of sensitizers SFA-5-8 leads to an obvious enhancement in the visible light absorption (300-750 nm) as well as a higher photovoltaic efficiency in the range of (5.53-7.56%). Under optimized conditions, SFA-7 showed outstanding sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2, resulting in enhancing the visible light absorption and upgrading the power conversion efficiency (PCE) to approximately 7.56% over that reported for the N719 (7.29%). Remarkably, SFA-7 outperformed N719 by 4% in the total conversion efficiency. Significantly, the superior performance of SFA-7 could be mainly ascribed to the higher short-circuit photocurrents (Jsc) in parallel with larger open-circuit voltages (Voc) and more importantly, the presence of different anchoring moieties that could enhance the ability to fill the gaps on the surface of the TiO2 semiconductor. That could be largely reflected in the overall enhancement in the device efficiency. Moreover, the theoretical electronic and photovoltaic properties of all studied sensitizers have been compared with experimental results. All the 2-cyanoacrylamide derivative sensitizers demonstrated robust photovoltaic performance.

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Bipodal dyes with bichromic triphenylamine architectures for use in dye-sensitized solar cell applications.

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Bipodal dyes with bichromic triphenylamine architectures for use in dye-sensitized solar cell applications.

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