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- The study examines the photophysical and charge transport properties of various modified expanded porphyrins using advanced computational methods like DFT.
- Four compounds are analyzed, with three previously studied experimentally and one theoretical proposal, showing significant near-infrared absorption capabilities.
- Results suggest the most promising dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells are pentaphyrin 1 and hexaphyrin 2, with highlighted benefits of increasing thiophene rings for improved solar energy absorption.
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Photophysical, photovoltaic, and charge transport properties of fused core-modified expanded porphyrins containing two pyrroles, one dithienothiophene (DTT) unit, and 1-4 thiophenes (1-4) were inspected by using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT. Compounds 1-3 have been investigated experimentally before, but 4 is a theoretical proposal whose photophysical features match those extrapolated from 1 to 3. They exhibit absorption in the range of 700-970 nm for their Q bands and 500-645 nm for their Soret bands. The rise of thiophene rings placed in front of the DTT unit in the expanded porphyrin ring causes a bathochromic shift of the longest absorption wavelength, leading to near-infrared absorptions, which represent 49% of the solar energy. All the systems show a thermodynamically favorable process for the electron injection from the dye to TiO2 and adsorption on a finite TiO2 model. The electron regeneration of the dye is only thermodynamically feasible for the smallest expanded porphyrins 1 and 2 when I-/I3- electrolyte is used. The charge transport study shows that for voltages lower than 0.4 V, junctions featuring pentaphyrin 1 and octaphyrin 4 are more conductive than those containing hexaphyrin 2 or heptaphyrin 3. The results showed that the four fused core-modified expanded porphyrins investigated are potential dyes for applications in dye-sensitized solar cells, mainly pentaphyrin 1 and hexaphyrin 2. Moreover, increasing the number of thiophene rings in the macrocycle proved fruitful in favoring absorption in the near-infrared region, which is highly desired for dye-sensitized solar cells.
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