In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future

Photovoltaics: computers help design efficient solar cells Twenty-one promising dyes for solar cells are designed numerically, avoiding lengthy screening experiments. A team led by Jerzy Leszczynski at the Jackson State University studied a collection of hundreds of organic dyes, in eleven chemical...

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Autores principales: Supratik Kar, Juganta K. Roy, Jerzy Leszczynski
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:519e10ad64d544db9c925e6fdbb77a402021-12-02T15:18:49ZIn silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future10.1038/s41524-017-0025-z2057-3960https://doaj.org/article/519e10ad64d544db9c925e6fdbb77a402017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-017-0025-zhttps://doaj.org/toc/2057-3960Photovoltaics: computers help design efficient solar cells Twenty-one promising dyes for solar cells are designed numerically, avoiding lengthy screening experiments. A team led by Jerzy Leszczynski at the Jackson State University studied a collection of hundreds of organic dyes, in eleven chemical families, compared computational results to experimental data, and identified the most important molecular properties that lead to high solar cell efficiency. Using these important molecular properties as guidelines, a series of new dyes were designed. Simulations of their optical and electrochemical properties allowed narrowing down the selection. Finally, their performance in dye-sensitized solar cells was predicted. Using combined computational techniques, the researchers identified two dozen promising dyes for experimentalists to synthesize and to test solar cells more rapidly. The methodology may help design more molecules in other chemical families.Supratik KarJuganta K. RoyJerzy LeszczynskiNature PortfolioarticleMaterials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materialsTA401-492Computer softwareQA76.75-76.765ENnpj Computational Materials, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
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Supratik Kar
Juganta K. Roy
Jerzy Leszczynski
In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
description Photovoltaics: computers help design efficient solar cells Twenty-one promising dyes for solar cells are designed numerically, avoiding lengthy screening experiments. A team led by Jerzy Leszczynski at the Jackson State University studied a collection of hundreds of organic dyes, in eleven chemical families, compared computational results to experimental data, and identified the most important molecular properties that lead to high solar cell efficiency. Using these important molecular properties as guidelines, a series of new dyes were designed. Simulations of their optical and electrochemical properties allowed narrowing down the selection. Finally, their performance in dye-sensitized solar cells was predicted. Using combined computational techniques, the researchers identified two dozen promising dyes for experimentalists to synthesize and to test solar cells more rapidly. The methodology may help design more molecules in other chemical families.
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title In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
title_short In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
title_full In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
title_fullStr In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
title_full_unstemmed In silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
title_sort in silico designing of power conversion efficient organic lead dyes for solar cells using todays innovative approaches to assure renewable energy for future
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