This research focuses on the utility of incorporating easy to synthesize Re(I) and Zn(II) complexes into dye sensitized solar cells.  Various complexes utilizing polypyridyl ligands with carboxylic linkers were synthesized and the chromophores studied by computation and a variety of optical spectroscopies in order to verify their charge-transfer characteristics upon light excitation. Finally, some were incorporated into dye sensitized solar cells (DSC's) and their efficiencies compared to DSC's using standard ruthenium dyes.

Modeling, synthesis, and testing of Re(I)(diimine)(CO)<sub>3</sub>X and bis(benzenethiol)(diimine)-Zn(II) complexes in dye-sensitized solar cells

247th National Meeting (2014)

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Modeling, synthesis, and testing of Re(I)(diimine)(CO)3X and bis(benzenethiol)(diimine)-Zn(II) complexes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Modeling, synthesis, and testing of Re(I)(diimine)(CO)₃X and bis(benzenethiol)(diimine)-Zn(II) complexes in dye-sensitized solar cells