Efficient tuning of zinc phthalocyanine-based dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: a detailed DFT study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Efficient tuning of zinc phthalocyanine-based dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: a detailed DFT study

Published:2021 Issue:44 Volume:11 Page:27570-27582
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Siddique Sabir Ali¹,Arshad Muhammad²^ORCID,Naveed Sabiha¹,Mehboob Muhammad Yasir³^ORCID,Adnan Muhammad⁴^ORCID,Hussain Riaz³,Ali Babar⁵,Siddique Muhammad Bilal Ahmed⁶,Liu Xin⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore-54590, Pakistan

2. Institute of Chemistry, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus, Bahawalpur-63100, Pakistan

3. Department of Chemistry, University of Okara, Okara-56300, Pakistan

4. Graduate School, Department of Chemistry, Chosun University, 501-759 Gwangju, Republic of Korea

5. Department of Physics, University of Okara, Okara-56300, Pakistan

6. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan-250100, China

7. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Department of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China

Abstract

We used a quantum chemical approach to investigate the optoelectronic properties of dyes T1–T5 for dye-sensitized solar cells using DFT and TD-DFT computation. The newly designed molecules exhibited outstanding photovoltaic and optoelectronic properties.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/RA/D1RA04529F

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