Design, Synthesis and Properties of Organic and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2022) | Viewed by 3095
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solar cells; organic, perovskite and dye-sensitized; optoelectronics; computational materials science; molecular structure
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organic solar cells (OSC) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are very important emerging photovoltaics. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs and DSSCs is a bottleneck for commercialization. The design and synthesis of novel molecules/materials for OSCs and DSSCs play a critical role in improving PCE, although dopant, addictive, electrolyte, morphology, electrode, device architectures also impact photovoltaic performance. Meanwhile, the thorough understanding of work principles both experimentally and theoretically, such as exciton dynamics in OSCs and electron injection dynamics in DSSCs, are fundamental for improving PCE with the aim of developing novel materials.
In order to promote the development of OSCs and DSSCs, this Special Issue is devoted to reporting the latest advances from chemistry, materials and physics points of study. Research works on all aspects of OSCs and DSSCs are welcome in this Special Issue, especially the novel active layer materials of OSCs and dye sensitizers for DSSCs, as well as theoretical studies.
Prof. Dr. Cairong Zhang
Prof. Dr. Yuanzuo Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic solar cells
- dye-sensitized solar cells
- exciton
- synthesis
- excitation
- charge transfer
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