Enhanced efficiency with CDCA co-adsorption for dye-sensitized solar cells based on metallosalophen complexes

Effect of regio-specific arylamine substitution on novel π-extended zinc salophen complexes: density functional and time-dependent density functional study on DSSC applications

“…Interestingly, although the porphyrin-based dyes featuring N,N,N,N-tetradentate molecular framework have been extensively investigated, studies relating structurally resembled dyes based on O,N,N,O-tetradentate salophen-type Schiff-based metal complex are found rare. [40][41][42][43] The metal-salophen complexes have strong UV-Vis absorption with broad spectral coverage which meet the principal criteria of a light harvesting photosensitizer. 28 In addition, the molecular properties can be easily manipulated via tuning the frontier molecular orbitals, charge-transfer characteristics, and probably other intermolecular interactions and potential catalytic properties.…”

“…Similar results were obtained for Pt- and Zn-derivatives where donor groups are functionalized at salophen 4,4′-positions. 42 The power conversion efficiency (PCE) account for these Pt- and Zn-based dyes are 1.53% and 0.99%, respectively. The poor performance of these dyes is probably attributed to (1) the relative higher HOMO level, (2) close proximity of arylamines to TiO 2 surface leading to increased charge recombination from TiO 2 to oxidized dyes and redox electrolytes, and (3) perhaps together with the series dye aggregation.…”

A New, Extremely Sensitive, Turn-Off Optical Sensor Utilizing Schiff Base for Fast Detection of Cu(II)

“…The Schiff base compound achieved enormous significance in the healthcare and medicinal industries and fascinated scientists to generate a novel construction outstanding variety of bioactivities involving antimicrobial [ 34 ], antibacterial [ 35 ], antifungal [ 36 ], anti-ulcer [ 37 ], anticonvulsant [ 38 ], antioxidant [ 39 ], anti-inflammatory [ 40 ], analgesic [ 41 ], and anti-tubercular [ 42 ]. As a part of biological activities, Schiff base emerged as a key intermediate to elaborate new structures that find multiple applications as optical [ 43 ], photosensitizes in dye-sensitized solar cells [ 44 ], catalyst [ 45 ], polymers stabilizers [ 46 ], semiconducting multicolumnar mesophases [ 47 ], pigments [ 48 ], dyes [ 49 ], sensors [ 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ] and luminescence [ 54 ]. Carbamate derivatives are one of the prospective target molecules utilized in producing pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, pesticides, and polyurethanes [ 55 ].…”

First-principle computation of some physical properties of half-Heusler compounds for possible thermoelectric applications

“…[30][31][32] Alloys that display total spin polarization at E F hold signicant value for applications in spintronics, owing to their exceptional highspin polarization characteristics. [33][34][35][36] The wide range of materials mentioned above has attracted signicant attention and captivated scientic researchers, primarily because of their potential applications in information technology. Notable examples of such applications include magnetic sensors and non-volatile magnetic random access memory (MRAM).…”