Publications related to Tie-dye

HaloTag-Based Tools for Live-Cell Imaging and Elucidation of Organellar Redox Biology

Redox homeostasis is a key factor in maintaining cellular function and health. The main determinant of the intracellular redox potential is ubiquitous glutathione (GSH) together with its oxidized dimer (GSSG). Importantly, both redox equilibrium and GSH ho ...

EPFL2024

Radiative transfer in luminescent solar concentrators

Sophia Haussener, Sha Li

A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) offers a viable solution to spectrally convert and concentrate both direct and diffuse sunlight without the need for tracking. Its potential for commercialization is currently limited by the optical performance. A det ...

2024

A 512 x 512 SPAD Image Sensor With Integrated Gating for Widefield FLIM

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

In this paper, we report on SwissSPAD2, an image sensor with 512 x 512 photon-counting pixels, each comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a 1-b memory, and a gating mechanism capable of turning the SPAD ON and OFF, with a skew of 250 and 344 p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Experimental demonstration of the water-holding property of three-dimensional vortices

When injecting dye into a vertical vortex generated by a commercial magnetic stirrer, one finds that dye remains captured around the vortex core over minutes, while it gets mixed with the water outside this region rather rapidly. Thus, considering its hori ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2018

Lateral Intermolecular Electronic Interactions of Diketopyrrolopyrrole D−π–A Solar Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Alumina

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Heewon Bahng

The development of push−pull organic dyes utilizing the donor−(π-conjugated bridge)−acceptor (D−π−A) motif has induced a paradigm shift in the design of efficient nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), offering control over the aesthetic prope ...

2018

Photoanode/Electrolyte Interface Stability in Aqueous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Guido Viscardi

O'Regan and Gratzel conceived a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), which operates as an artificial photosynthetic system converting solar light into electricity. Nevertheless, it is only recently that the scientific community is focusing on truly aqueous DS ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Pyridyl- and Picolinic Acid Substituted Zinc(II) Phthalocyanines for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

A series of tri-tert-butyl zinc(II) phthalocyanines (Pcs) substituted with pyridyl, carboxyl, or picolinic acid anchoring groups on the periphery were prepared. Photovoltaic (PV) studies on these dyes were carried out revealing some interesting features. I ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2017

Rationalizing Fluorescence Quenching in meso-BODIPY Dyes

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Antonio Prlj

meso-Substituted boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dyes are a puzzling class of molecules, which feature contrasting emissive behaviors. The full mechanistic picture for these distinctive properties is still missing. Using static and dynamic excited state comp ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Preparation of cationic azo compounds

Kay Severin, Alexander Tskhovrebov

The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing cationic azo compounds, which preferably can be used as dyes. Further, the invention relates to novel cationic azo compounds and the use of N2O in the synthesis of azo-imidazolium dyes. ...

2016

A study of oligothiophene-acceptor dyes in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lei Zhang, Peng Liu

Two new dyes, E1 and E2, equipped with triphenylamine as the electron donor, oligothiophene as the linker and different electron acceptor groups, have been designed and synthesized as photosensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSCs). A syste ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

The effect of mesoporous TiO2 pore size on the performance of solid-state dye sensitized solar cells based on photoelectrochemically polymerized Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) hole conductor

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang

Photoelectrochemical polymerization of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiphene) (PEDOT) has recently been introduced and widely investigated for fabrication of the hole transporting material (HTM) in highly efficient solid state dye sensitized solar cells (sDSCs). ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine as an Electron Deficient pi-Bridge in D-A-pi-A DSCs

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella

Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine (TPz) is examined as an electron deficient pi-bridge enabling near-infrared (NIR) spectral access in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Seven dissymmetric dyes for DSCs were synthesized (NL2-NL8) with TPz as the pi-bridge utilizing pa ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Synthesis, characterization and ab initio investigation of a panchromatic ullazine–porphyrin photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Basile Curchod, Magdalena Anna Marszalek, Negar Ashari Astani, Julien Edouard Frey, Simon Mathew

An ullazine unit was employed as a donor moiety in a donor-pi-acceptor (D-p-A) motif, employing the porphyrin macrocycle as a pi-system. Synthesis of this ullazine-porphyrin dyad containing sensitizer (SM63) was achieved and an investigation of the electro ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Porphyrin based sensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Fabrizio Giordano

The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) based on a porphyrin core and a π-conjugated linker or acceptor introduced between the porphyrin core and an anchoring group having a high absorption coefficient covering the whole UV-Visible and ne ...

2016

Selective detection of Al3+ and citric acid with a fluorescent amphiphile

Kay Severin, Ziya Köstereli

An amphiphilic fluorescent dye with a disulfonated BODIPY head group and a heptadecyl side chain is described. In buffered aqueous solution, the amphiphile can form aggregates with a critical micelle concentration of similar to 20 mu M. The aggregation of ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry of dye-sensitized solar cells: identification of the dye-electrolyte interaction

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have great potential to provide sustainable electricity from sunlight. The photoanode in DSCs consists of a dye-sensitized metal oxide film deposited on a conductive substrate. This configuration makes the photoanode a per ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Filippo de Angelis

We report the design, synthesis and computational investigation of a class of Ru(II)-dyes based on mixed bipyridine ligands for use in dye-sensitized solar cells. These dyes are designed to preserve the optimal anchoring mode of the prototypical N719 sensi ...

Elsevier2014

Engineering of Ru(II) dyes for interfacial and light-harvesting optimization

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Filippo de Angelis, Kuan-Lin Wu, Gabriele Marotta

A new Ru(II) dye, Ru(L1)(L2) (NCS)(2), L1 = (4-(5-hexylthiophen-2-yl)-4'(4-carboxyl-phenyl 2,2'-bipyridine) and L2 = (4-4'-dicarboxy-2,2'- bipyridine), labelled MC112, based on a dissymmetric bipyridine ligand for improved interfacial and optical propertie ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Acetylene-bridged dyes with high open circuit potential for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Thomas Moehl, Fabrizio Giordano, Aswani Yella, Yongjoo Kim, Chi-Lun Mai

A series of simple metal-free organic dyes MS1-MS3 have been designed and synthesized, and their optical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties were investigated. The molecular structures are based on a push-pull framework with a triphenylamine, nap ...

RSC Publishing2014

Thermal stability of the DSC ruthenium dye C106 in robust electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Péter Kalman Péchy

We have investigated the thermal stability of the heteroleptic ruthenium complex C106 employed as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells. The C106 was adsorbed on TiO2 particles and exposed to 2 different iodide/triidode based redox electrolytes A and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014