Review on the development of natural dye photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Ludin, Norasikin Ahmad; Al-Alwani, Mahmoud A M; Mohamad, Abu Bakar; Kadhum, Abdul Amir H.; Sopian, Kamaruzzaman; Karim, Nor Shazlinah Abdul

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.12.001

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“…Numerous researches focused on molecular engineering of several inorganic metal complexes and organic dyes. Transition coordination complexes are used as charge transfer sensitizers, harvesting around 11% solar to electric energy in standard global air mass AM 1.5 of sunlight [20]. These complexes are also one of the most effective sensitizers because of their greater efficiency, chemical stability, favorable photo-electrochemical properties etc.…”

Section: Photosensitizermentioning

confidence: 99%

Review on Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)

Adedokun¹,

Titilope²,

Awodugba³

2016

IJET

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Abstract-In a conversion system of pure and non-convectional solar energy to electricity, dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) encourage the fabrication of photovoltaic devices providing high conversion efficiency at low cost. The dye as a sensitizer plays a vital role in performance evaluation of DSSCs. Natural dyes (organic dyes) has come to be a worth-while substitute to the rare and expensive inorganic sensitizers because of its cost effective, extreme availability and biodegradable. Different parts of a plant like fruits, leaves, flowers petals and bark have been tested over the years as sensitizers. The properties, together with some other parameters of these pigments give rise to improve in the operation standard of DSSCs. This review hash-out the history of DSSC with a focus on the recent developments of the natural dyes applications in this specific area with their overall appearance, the various components and the working principle of DSSCs as well as the work done over the years on natural dye based DSSCs.

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Section: Photosensitizermentioning

confidence: 99%

Review on Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)

Adedokun¹,

Titilope²,

Awodugba³

2016

IJET

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“…Natural colorants are pigmentary molecules and dyes obtained mainly from plants such as chlorophyll, carotenoid, anthocyanin, flavonoid, cyanine, and tannin (Ludin et al, 2014). Dragon fruit known as Hylocereus undatus is a tropical fruit popular in Southeast Asia, belonging to the climbing cacti (Cactaceae) family (Castro et al, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Conductivity Performance of Dragon Fruit Dye Extracted Using Water and Ethanol for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Zakaria

Hassan²,

Yahya³

et al. 2018

IJET

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Natural pigments such as anthocyanin, carotenoid, flavonoids, and chlorophyll can be considered as promising alternative sensitizer dyes for DSSC to replace synthetic dye such as N719 because of their simple preparation technique, low cost, complete biodegradati on, availability, purity grade, environmental friendliness and most importantly ability to reduce noble metal. In this work, UV-Vis spectra is used to observe the absorption spectra of different extracting solvent of dragon fruit dye. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) identifies the functional components of the dye while impedance spectroscopy gives the conductivity data. Dragon fruit dye extracted with ethanol had a lower absorbance at 518 nm compared to dragon fruit dye extracted with distilled water at 521 nm. The presence of carboxyl group in Betalains pigment within the range of 400 -700 nm wavenumber promotes strong hydrogen bonding while the presence of COOH stretching vibration further confirms the carboxyl group of Betalains derivatives in dragon fruit dye. The electrical conductivity measured at room temperature (27°C), boiling point (100°C) and 130°C recorded highest value of 183 Scm -1 at 100 °C for dragon fruit dye diluted with distilled water (D-DI) while for dragon fruit dye diluted with ethanol (D-Etha) the value is 9.56 × 10 -1 Scm -1 at 130°C hence showing that distilled water is the best solvent for natural dye from dragon fruit.

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“…Second-generation PV cells introduces a thin film with lessen the constructional expense. The present third generation PV techniques in corporate double junctions, triple junctions and application of nanotechnology comes into solar cell fabrication [17]. Dye Sensitized solar cell is a third generation solar cell which gives a low cost technique to convert sunlight into electric energy.…”

Section: Introduction To Dsscmentioning

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Synthesising methods of layered double hydroxides and its use in the fabrication of dye Sensitised solar cell (DSSC): A short review

George

Saravanakumar

2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Abstract. The layered double hydroxides (LDH) which are anionic clay substances comprising of stacked cationic layers and interlayer anions. The cationic sheets contain octahedral structure consisting the divalent and trivalent ions in the center and hydroxyl bunches in the corners, gathered by three bonding with the neighbouring octahedra on every side of the layer. The ratio between the quantity of cations and OH − ions is 2:1, so a positive charge shows up on the layer because of the presence of trivalent cations. The interlayer space gives the compensation anions and water molecules, assuring a balanced out layered structure. The LDH materials were successfully synthesised from magnesium, aluminium, zinc and chromium chloride salts utilizing the co-precipitation technique. A Zn-Al LDH was researched as a potential sorbent material. This article reviews the recent advances in the preparation and intercalation of layered double hydroxides and its application in the fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC).

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Review on the development of natural dye photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Cited by 371 publications

References 95 publications

Review on Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)

Review on Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)

Comparison of Conductivity Performance of Dragon Fruit Dye Extracted Using Water and Ethanol for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Synthesising methods of layered double hydroxides and its use in the fabrication of dye Sensitised solar cell (DSSC): A short review

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