Effect of molecular and electronic structure on the light harvesting properties of dye sensitizers

Details Effect of molecular and electronic structure on the light harvesting properties of dye sensitizers Effect of molecular and electronic structure on the light harvesting properties of dye sensitizers

2008-01-01

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0316v1

J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 7539-7547

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Single pdf file, 14 pages with 7 figures and 4 tables

Scientific paper

10.1021/jp0659812

The systematic trends in structural and electronic properties of perylene diimide (PDI) derived dye molecules have been investigated by DFT calculations based on projector augmented wave (PAW) method including gradient corrected exchange-correlation effects. TDDFT calculations have been performed to study the visible absorbance activity of these complexes. The effect of different ligands and halogen atoms attached to PDI were studied to characterize the light harvesting properties. The atomic size and electronegativity of the halogen were observed to alter the relaxed molecular geometries which in turn influenced the electronic behavior of the dye molecules. Ground state molecular structure of isolated dye molecules studied in this work depends on both the halogen atom and the carboxylic acid groups. DFT calculations revealed that the carboxylic acid ligands did not play an important role in changing the HOMO-LUMO gap of the sensitizer. However, they serve as anchor between the PDI and substrate titania surface of the solar cell or photocatalyst. A commercially available dye-sensitizer, ruthenium bipyridine (RuBpy), was also studied for electronic and structural properties in order to make a comparison with PDI derivatives for light harvesting properties. Results of this work suggest that fluorinated, chlorinated, brominated, and iyodinated PDI compounds can be useful as sensitizers in solar cells and in artificial photosynthesis.

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