Experimental and DFT study of natural curcumin derived dyes as n-type sensitizers
Autor
Zárate, Ximena P.
González P., Ivan
Caramori, Stefano
Benazzi, Elisabetta
Barra, Tomas
Arrué, Lily
Wu, Yinan
Díaz-Uribe, Carlos Enrique
Vallejo-Lozada, William Andrés
Schott V., Eduardo
Resumen
In this paper, four different bio-inspired curcumin dyes were explored as n-type sensitizers in regenerative TiO2 based photoelectrochemical cells in order to rationalize their structure/performance relationships for solar energy conversion. To this end, photoelectrochemical measurements were combined with quantum chemical computations in order to adress curcumin binding mode to the semiconductor and the consequent effects on their electronic structure. In our conditions, it was found that the best conversion efficiency of the solar cell fabricated using 1,7-bis-[4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-phenyl]-1,6-heptadiene-3,5-dione (curcumin) was 1.0%.
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