DFT, DFTB and TD-DFT theoretical investigations of p-conjugated molecules based on thieno[2,3-b] indole for dye-sensitized solar cell applications
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El Mouhi, RahmaSlimi, Ahmed
Fitri, Asmae
Benjelloun, Adil Touimi
ElKhattabi, Souad
Benzakour, Mohammed
Mcharfi, Mohammed
Kurban, Mustafa
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El Mouhi, R., Slimi, A., Fitri, A., Benjelloun, A. T., ElKhattabi, S., Benzakour, M., ... & Kurban, M. (2022). DFT, DFTB and TD-DFT theoretical investigations of π-conjugated molecules based on thieno [2, 3-b] indole for dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 636, 413850.Abstract
In this study, the electrochemical, photovoltaic and absorption properties of the new designed organic sensitizers dyes: Dye-1, Dye-2, Dye-3 and Dye-4 based on Dye-R, of D-pi-A architecture, before and after binding to the TiO(2 )cluster surface on the ability to inject electrons to the surface. The D donor is the thieno[2,3-b] indole, pi-spacer is thiophene, A acceptor is cycnoacrylic acid (CA). The properties were calculated using functional density theory (DFT), time-dependent TD-DFT and the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) approach. Our study also focused on the analysis of the effects of the introduction of the auxiliary donor (D ')/acceptor (A ') groups on the main photovoltaic properties of the reference molecule Dye-R and to study the relationship between the molecular structure and optoelectronic properties. The analysis of the calculated properties of the new designed compounds D-D '-pi-A (Dye-1), D-pi-D '-A (Dye-2), D-A '-pi-A (Dye-3) and D-pi-A '-A (Dye-4), where A ' is benzothiadiazole and D ' is 9,9-diethyl-9H-fluorene, indicate that the molecular architecture has a significant effect on various properties of the studied dyes and that nature (donor D ' or acceptor A ') of the introduced groups, as well as the choice of their locations with respect to the 7E bridge, is of great importance. Indeed, among the four designed compounds Dye-4 (D-pi-A '-A) and Dye-3 (D-A '-pi-A) display significantly better properties than those of the reference molecule Dye-R (D-pi-A) and of the two other designed dyes Dye-1 (D-D '-7E-A), Dye-2 (D-pi-D '-A).
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