Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV22)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2022.193
Publication date: 20th April 2022
Dye-sensitization of a p-type semiconductor forms a photocathode that can be used for building tandem dye-sensitized solar cells. It also provides an attractive platform for artificial photosynthesis. I will talk about the materials design of molecular sensitizers and nanostructured semiconductors to achieve the control of directional charge transfer, as well as applications in p-type dye-sensitized photocatalytic water reduction and a hybrid device named “solar battery”, which possesses the dual functions of solar energy harvesting and in situ storage. With the emergence of halide perovskite solar cells, I will also talk about my struggle with transitions to this area, describing our recent progresses in porphyrin-perovskite solar cells and machine-learning-assisted model for predicting structures of low-dimensional halide perovskites.