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SESSION: AdvancedMaterialsWedAM-R8	Marquis International Symposium on New and Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development(3rd Intl Symp. on New and Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development)
Wed Oct, 25 2017	Room: Maria Luisa & Maria Fernanda
Session Chairs: Dipankar Ghosh; Pengwan Chen; Session Monitor: TBA

11:00: [AdvancedMaterialsWedAM01] Keynote
Can Small Molecules Realize Big Dreams in Solar Energy Conversion for Sustainable Environment?
Chandrasekharam Malapaka¹ ; ¹CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India;
Paper Id: 243 [Abstract]

As fossil fuels are quickly depleting, there is a search for alternative energy resources such as solar energy. An advantage of the Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) with respect to competing technologies, is that its performance is remarkably insensitive to temperature change and incident angle of solar light. Thus, raising the temperature from 20 to 600C has practically no effect on the power conversion efficiency. Further, DSSC are known to work with the same efficiency even under diffused light conditions. In contrast, conventional silicon cells exhibit a significant decline over the same temperature range amounting to 20%. The best photovoltaic performance among DSSCs, both in terms of conversion yield and long term stability, has so far been achieved with polypyridyl complexes of ruthenium. The high efficiencies of the ruthenium(II)-polypyridyl DSSCs can be attributed to their wide absorption range from the visible to the near infra-red (NIR) regime. We have been engaged in the synthesis and evaluation of stable and efficient new metal free organic, phthalocyanine as well as ruthenium based dyes as sensitizers for DSSC application. We also achieved a certified world record efficiency of 11.40% employing a simple co-adsorbent in a black dye based device designed and developed at IICT.