{"id":479,"date":"2016-05-03T20:03:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:03:54","slug":"the-beauty-of-dye-sensitized-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of dye-sensitized solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech.jpg\" alt=\"DSSC SwissTech\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech.jpg 780w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out these photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detail-online.com\/inspiration\/report-the-cutting-edge-of-research-\u2013-epfl\u2019s-swisstech-convention-center-111842.html\">EPFL\u2019s SwissTech Convention Center<\/a>, which has a facade covered in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The archetypal dye for a DSSC is a ruthenium complex called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell#Development\">black dye<\/a>.&#8221; Dyes like actually have an enchanting purple-brown-black color, which isn&#8217;t <em>totally<\/em> black. But you can theoretically use any molecule that will inject an electron into a semiconductor when hit by light, and I just did a bit of hunting around and found a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyenamo.se\/dyenamo_vibrant-dyes.php\">Dyenamo<\/a> that specializes in different colors. The bottom picture is <a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/94\/i18\/future-low-cost-solar-cells.html\">from C&amp;EN<\/a>, which has an article on non-silicon solar cells this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-from-CEN.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-from-CEN.jpg\" alt=\"DSSC SwissTech from C&amp;EN\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-from-CEN.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-from-CEN-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSSC-SwissTech-from-CEN-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these photos of EPFL\u2019s SwissTech Convention Center, which has a facade covered in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The archetypal dye for a DSSC is a ruthenium complex called &#8220;black dye.&#8221; Dyes like actually have an enchanting purple-brown-black color, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}