Natural dye extracted from Areca catechu fruits as a new sensitiser for dye-sensitised solar cell fabrication: Optimisation using D-Optimal design

Al-Alwani, Mahmoud A M; Hasan, Hassimi Abu; Al-Shorgani, Najeeb Kaid Nasser; Al-Mashaan, Abu Baker S.A.

doi:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2019.122204

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“…Many uses organic materials, organometallic compounds and inorganic substances. Despite the fact that their efficiencies have been low and the stability of the absorber material is often too short for commercial applications, there is a lot of research invested into these technologies as they promise to achieve the goal of producing low-cost, high-efficient solar cells [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][42][43][44][45][46].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…O'regan and Gratzel [20] have conducted a simple fabrication solar cell research known at this time as dye sensitized solar cell in 1991. This solar cell has received great attention for its simple fabrication process, low production costs, relatively high conversion efficiency and, environmentally friendly [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. The largest energy conversion efficiency ever produced by this solar cell is about 11% [35,36].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many researchers have fabricated DSSC using dyes made from fruits containing anthocyanin substances [21][22][23][24][25]. The anthocyanin substances play an important role in the process of absorbing light.…”

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Effect of Titanium Dioxide Thickness on Performance of DSSC Solar Cell Using Red Dragon Fruit Dye

Amin

Ridwan

Aziz

2022

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A solar cell is an electrical device used to convert the energy of sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon. One type of solar cells that uses plant dyes is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). The DSSC is in the form of a structural arrangement known as a sandwich structure, consisting of conductive glass as transparent electrode, titanium dioxide (TiO2) sensitized by plant dyes, electrolyte, and a metal electrode as a counter electrode. The paper aims to study the effect of TiO2 thickness on DSSC performance utilizing red dragon fruit flesh extract as a dye. Three variations in the thickness of the TiO2 layer evenly positioned in the conductive area are tested. The thicknesses of the TiO2 layer are 99 µm, 129 µm and 141 µm respectively. The DSSC performance is tested outdoors with sunny weather conditions from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. A calibrated Arduino measurement kit is used to measure the voltage and current values produced by the DSSC prototype. Testing with a thickness of 141μm resulted in the highest maximum power value of 532.26 mW among the three thickness variations.

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Effect of Titanium Dioxide Thickness on Performance of DSSC Solar Cell Using Red Dragon Fruit Dye

Amin

Ridwan

Aziz

2022

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“…In recent years, natural dyes such as flavonoids, betalains, tannins, chlorophylls and carotenoids extracted from plants have also been successfully used as light harvesters in DSSCs [19][20][21][22]. Their advantages over synthetic dyes include cost-effectiveness, nontoxicity and possible biodegradation.…”

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Organic Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Featuring Back Reflector

Zdyb

Krawczak

2021

Energies

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated using a photoelectrode covered by a porous layer of titanium dioxide, platinum counter electrode, iodide/triiodide electrolyte and three different dyes: phenylfluorone (PF), pyrocatechol violet (PCV) and alizarin (AL). After the adsorption of the dyes on the mesoporous TiO2 layer, the measurement of absorption spectra of all the tested dyes revealed a significant broadening of the absorption range. The positions of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO) levels of dye molecules were determined, indicating that all three dyes are good candidates for light harvesters in DSSCs. The cells were tested under simulated solar light, and their working parameters were determined. The results showed that the implementation of the back reflector layer made of BaSO4 provided an improvement in the cell efficiency of up to 17.9% for phenylfluorone, 60% for pyrocatechol violet and 21.4% for alizarin dye.

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“…Over the years there has been little growth in cell efficiency using this type of dyes, motivating the study of other compounds for substitution. Cells employing organic dyes perform similarly to those using ruthenium complexes facing the same difficulty in achieving efficiency, including those employing extracts of natural dyes 21 . Dyes based on porphyrinic structures have obtained promising results, surpassing devices that use ruthenium.…”

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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Components Screening for Glass substrate, Counter-Electrode, Photoanode and Electrolyte

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The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) represents a viable and low-cost alternative to generate electrical power by the sunlight. In the present work, the DSSC components such as glass substrate (ITO/ FTO), counter-electrode (graphite/platinum), photoanode components (use or not of AuNPs as Shottky barriers) and electrolyte concentration and components were screened to understand their influence on device operation. FTO substrates and Pt counter-electrode were shown to perform best. However, the use of such metal does not comply with the device low cost approach. Gold nanoparticles in the photoanode did not result in an increase of efficiency. Finally, the electrolyte composition influenced the device performance: it was observed that the highest efficiency was obtained for the electrolytes containing 4-tert-butylpyridine together with smaller cations (such as Na and K) as counter-ions to triiodide. The highest efficiency achieved in this work was 1.26%.

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Natural dye extracted from Areca catechu fruits as a new sensitiser for dye-sensitised solar cell fabrication: Optimisation using D-Optimal design

Cited by 21 publications

References 40 publications

Effect of Titanium Dioxide Thickness on Performance of DSSC Solar Cell Using Red Dragon Fruit Dye

Effect of Titanium Dioxide Thickness on Performance of DSSC Solar Cell Using Red Dragon Fruit Dye

Organic Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Featuring Back Reflector

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Components Screening for Glass substrate, Counter-Electrode, Photoanode and Electrolyte

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