Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Department
Chemistry and Biochemistry
First Advisor
Jared H. Delcamp
Second Advisor
David Colby
Third Advisor
Nathan Hammer
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
With the energy consumption increase every year, the non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, natural gas, and coal will not sustain forever. In this case, searching for a way to develop a renewable energy source is an emergency. For decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have received intensive attention due to their high power conversion efficiency and low material cost. This dissertation describes efforts to design and synthesize near-infrared organic dyes to apply to two systems: first, for use in the improvement of DSCs by the optimization of electron rich components such as ullazine and cross-conjugated -bridges to increase photon-to-electricity conversion and second, as a way to manipulate the UV-vis absorption and emission of the near-infrared organic dyes to use lower energy photons with wavelength ranges in the therapeutic window (700 nm-1000 nm).
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yanbing, "Near-Infrared High Efficiency Organic Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSCs) and Biological Fluorescent Imaging Dyes" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1626.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1626