Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Mathematical Modelling, and Materials Design and Optimization

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 2. Mathematical Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 3. Insights into Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells from Macroscopic-Scale First-Principles Mathematical Modeling 4. Charge Separation: From the Topology of Molecular Electronic Transitions to the Dye/Semiconductor Interfacial Energetics and Kinetics 5. Linear-Response and Real-Time, Time-Dependent DFT for Predicting Optoelectronic Properties of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 6. Photovoltaic Performance of Natural Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study 7. Recent Advances on Porphyrin Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 8. Beyond the Limitations of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells 9. Upconversion-Enhanced Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 10. Insights into Graphene-based Materials as Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 11. Economical and Highly Efficient Non-Metal Counter Electrode Materials for Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Authors

Masoud Soroush Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Masoud Soroush is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Drexel University. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran, and M.S.E. degrees in chemical engineering and electrical engineering and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States. He was a visiting scientist at DuPont Marshall Lab, Philadelphia, 2002-2003 and a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2008. He was the AIChE Area 10b Program Coordinator in 2009, and the AIChE Director on the American Automatic Control Council Board of Directors from 2010-2013. His awards include the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award in 1997 and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of American Automatic Control Council in 1999. He is an elected fellow of AIChE and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests are in process systems engineering, polymer reaction engineering, electronic-level modeling of reactions, polymer membranes, multiscale modeling, probabilistic modeling and inference, and renewable power generation and storage systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 320 publications, including over 180 refereed papers. Kenneth K,S,Lau Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Kenneth K.S. Lau, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Lau's research focuses on applying novel chemical vapor deposition approaches to the development of polymer thin film materials and devices, with applications in energy harvesting and storage, including dye sensitized solar cells, supercapacitors, and lithium ion batteries.