A density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory investigation on the anchor comparison of
Bo Peng1, Siqi Yang, Lanlan Li
1Institute of New Energy Material Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Energy-Material Chemistry, Chemistry College, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
To understand the effects of the anchor part in organic dyes on the energy conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), two different anchor groups used in metal-free triphenylamine (TPA)-based organic dyes for DSCs have been theoretically compared. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) study of geometry properties, excitations, and electronic structures of triarylamine-based dyes (TC1 and TPAR1) before and after binding to titanium has been performed under the level of TD-PBE1PBE/6-311G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-311G(d,p). The result shows that cyanoacrylic acid anchor favors better photoelectrochemical properties of DSCs than that of rhodanine-3-acetic acid anchor via providing more shift of TiO(2) conduction band toward the vacuum energy levels (larger open circuit potentials) and more favorable conjugation with titanium. This study is expected to shed light on the design of metal-free organic dyes for DSCs.
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