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The Use of Copper-Quercetin Complex as Photosensitizer in Dye Sensitive Solar Cells and Its Photovoltaic Performance

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are an environmentally friendly, easy-to-make, and cost-effective type of solar cell. However, its disadvantages are that it is not stable and is not at the desired level in terms of efficiency. These disadvantages are a major challenge for DSSCs to have a say in the solar cell industry. In this study, copper-quercetin complex was used as a sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells and the well-known N3 dye was used as a sensitizer in a reference cell for comparison purposes. TiO2 photoanodes coated with doctor-blade technique on ITO-coated glass were characterized by XRD and SEM. It was determined from the XRD results that dominant phase of the TiO2 photoanode was in the anatase phase and from the SEM images it was porous, spongy, and approximately 30-µm thickness. The electrochemical properties of the copper-quercetin complex were investigated by CV technique. From the cyclic voltammetry results, the EHOMO, ELUMO, and Eg values of the copper-quercetin complex were calculated as 5.02, 2.53, and 2.49 eV, respectively. We calculated power conversion efficiencies (η %) of copper-quercetin complex and N3 dye-sensitized DSSCs as 0.093 and 0.199, respectively, under the standard conditions of 1.5 AM (100 mW/cm2). Based on a proportional comparison with the best efficiency in DSSCs with N3 dye to date, we calculated that the efficiency of the DSSC designed with copper-quercetin complex would be around 5% under ideal conditions. In our study, it was examined in terms of stability, a second parameter that directly affects the performance of the cell. It was observed that the solar cell, in which we used copper-quercetin complex as a sensitizer, displayed an extremely stable structure in the measurements taken in weekly periods for 5 weeks.

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The authors acknowledge the journal’s Research Data Policy. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author (Cihat Özaydın (cihat.ozaydin@batman.edu.tr)) upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir LEVENT and Dicle University Science and Technology Application and Research Center (DUBTAM) for their assistance in electrochemical and SEM measurements, respectively.

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This study was supported by Batman University Scientific Research Projects Unit (BTUBAP) with the project numbered BTUBAP-2019-YL-09.

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  2. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Batman University, Batı Raman Campus, 72000, Batman, Turkey

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All authors contributed equally to this work. Cihat Özaydın: conception or design of the work, investigation, data analysis and interpretation, writing—review and editing, supervision; Musa Gözel: investigation, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, writing—review and editing.

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Özaydın, C., Gözel, M. The Use of Copper-Quercetin Complex as Photosensitizer in Dye Sensitive Solar Cells and Its Photovoltaic Performance. Braz J Phys 53, 28 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-022-01238-w

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