Review on the natural dye for nanostructure dye-sensitized solar cells

Authors

1 Department of Organic Colorants, Institute for Color Science and Technology

2 Department of Organic Colorants , Institute for Color Science and Technology

Abstract

Dyes are one of the major components of the nanostructure solar cell that their role is producing electrons. One of the most important classes of dyes utilized in solar cells is natural dyes that are highly regarded due to low cost and no environment threat. Various parts of plants such as flower petals, leaves and bark have been tested as photosensitizer materials in dye-sensitized solar cells and have been investigated their performance. Although natural dyes have various applications but, this review briefly discuses dye-sensitized solar cell based natural dyes.

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