New Sight towards Dye-sensitized Solar Cells: Material and Theoretical

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) technology is emerging, against the current background of drastic consumption-rates of irreplaceable natural resources, as the Cinderella solution to many energy-related problems, Almost since its first appearance, it has been regarded as being the most promising alternative to conventional silicon solar cell technology due to the tremendous advantages of low cost and high theoretical energy-conversion efficiency.Eight invited and peer-reviewed papers comprise this special-topic volume on a possible alternative to conventional silicon solar cells. They describe dye-sensitized solar cells built on plastic substrates by the low-temperature preparation of semiconductor films, cells based on nitrogen-doped titania electrodes, porphyrins as potential sensitizers, PEO-imidazole ionic liquid oligomer and polymer electrolytes, the counter electrode, the efficiency of electron injection in dye-sensitized semiconductor films, charge transport and interfacial charge transfer in dye-sensitized nanoporous semiconductor electrode systems, and electron transportation and recombination in TiOin2 film for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells.