Lawsone dye complex: An efficient sensitizer for dye sensitized solar cell

Lakshmi, R.; Krishnakumar, G.; Joseph, Lyjo K.; Sreelatha, K. S.; Jinchu, I.

doi:10.1109/iceeot.2016.7755597

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“…One of alternative energy is solar cells. Solar cells develop rapidly with the price of energy growing large in seconds [4]. Dye-sensitized solar cell are modern solar cells with low prices.…”

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Dry Leaf Litter Extraction as Natural Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Sembiring¹,

Waluyo²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the the 3rd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACE

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Currently, many dry leaf litters are still being futile. Dry leaf litters burning is a bad solution for health and environment. One alternative used is for dye. Natural dye from dry leaf litter extraction can be applied in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) is deposited onto transparent conductive oxide (TCO) glass by the doctor blade method. Meanwhile, natural dyes are dripped into dry TiO2. Electrolytes and carbon as auxiliaries for electron flow in TCO. The parameter responses of DSSC with dry leaf litter extract dye following:

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Dry Leaf Litter Extraction as Natural Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Sembiring¹,

Waluyo²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the the 3rd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACE

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“…The structural, optoelectronic and other properties of lawsone have been studied experimentally and theoretically (Chemspider, n.d.;Lemmon, McLinden, Friend, Linstrom & Mallard, 2018;Madili, Pogrebnoi & Pogrebnaya, 2018). Previous literature on the performance of lawsone in DSSCs indicated the energy conversion efficiency to be 0.93% (Lakshmi, Krishnakumar, Joseph, Sreelatha & Jinchu, 2016), 0.49% (Al-Bat'hi, Alaei & Sopyan, 2012), as it is seen, the energy conversion efficiency of lawsone is still low.…”

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Lawsone, lawsone ether and bilawsone for dyesensitized solar cells application

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) had turned up as a novel class of low-cost solar cells that can be fabricated easily compared to silicon solar cells. The DSSCs based on natural sensitizers are able to generate clean energy at low production cost. The modification of natural dyes facilitates the broadening of the light absorption range and improving overall DSSCs performance. In this work structural and optoelectronic properties of lawsone (L), lawsone ether (LE) and bilawsone (BL) were studied theoretically using the density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory methods with hybrid functional B3LYP5 and 6-311G(2d,p) basis set. The electronic spectra of the dyes molecules in a vacuum and solvents (dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and dichloromethane (CH2Cl2)) were computed. The maximum wavelengths were found at 355-408 nm for LE and 350-448 nm for BL that indicated bands shift to visible range compared to L, 340 nm. The UV-Vis spectra of bilawsone and lawsone in dimethyl sulfoxide solution were measured experimentally. For the BL, a broad and intensive band was observed in a visible region at ~450 nm that apparently would favour sensitizing ability of the dye. The performance of DSSCs sensitized with lawsone and bilawsone were tested in outdoor conditions and I-V curves were measured. The power conversion efficiency of DSSCs sensitized with bilawsone was 1.7%, and 0.6% with lawsone. The results of the experimental measurements were in accordance with the theoretical prediction of the optoelectronic properties of the dyes. The optoelectronic properties of the LE and BL showed them as more promising candidates for DSSCs applications compared to individual lawsone dye. Therefore, the energy conversion efficiency of the cell using bilawsone dye revealed the enhancement in the cell performance. Keywords: Lawsone isomers, Lawsone ether, Bilawsone, Dye-sensitized solar cells, UVVis/vibrational spectra, DFT/TD-DFT, Power conversion efficiency.

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