UV-selective organic absorbers for the cosensitization of greenhouse-integrated dye-sensitized solar cells: synthesis and computational study
Rua B. Alnoman, Eman Nabil, Shazia Parveen, Mohamed Hagar, Mohamed Zakaria
Abstract
the radiative trivial reabsorption mechanism, which confirms the cosensitization functionality. Energy decomposition analysis and reduced density gradient maps estimated the chemical compatibility owing to weak dispersion interactions as the dominant stabilizing attractive force. This noncovalent functionalization retains the chemical compatibility without distorting the π-π conjugation and the associated physicochemical properties of the individual dye molecules. Along with the expanded consumption of non-photosynthetically active solar radiation, an improved power conversion efficiency of greenhouse-integrated DSC is accordingly expected.
Topics & Concepts
Dye-sensitized solar cellAbsorption (acoustics)Materials scienceAbsorption spectroscopyPhotochemistryRadiationChemical engineeringChemistryOptoelectronicsEnvironmental chemistryOpticsPhysical chemistryPhysicsComposite materialEngineeringElectrodeElectrolyteTiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar CellsLight effects on plantssolar cell performance optimization