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Sensitizing performance of extracted natural dyes on MoO3-included Degussa composite photo-anode in DSSC fabrication

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Natural dye sensitizers were extracted from Terminalia catappa (R), Azadirachta indica (G), and Clitoria ternatea (B) using water as a solvent to sensitize the bare photo-anodes of N-DSSCs. The average crystalline size of a bare TiO2-based photo-anode was compared with a composite photo-anode which includes 1 wt% of MoO3. The anchoring capability of extracted sensitizers (R, G, and B) toward metal oxides was confirmed with a favorable functional group. Through UV–Vis–DRS Spectra, the light-harvesting capability to collect light was compared for each composite and a TiO2-based photo-anode that had been sensitized with respective sensitizer R, G, and B. The photo-catalytic performance of dye-anchored pure TiO2 and composite-based photo-anodes have been analyzed through recombination rate. Photovoltaic parameters of assembled N-DSSCs were calculated from the J–V graph. The overall efficiency of N-DSSCs incorporated with 1wt% MoO3 -based photo-anode sensitized with Terminalia catappa (as RB), Azadirachta indica (as GB), and Clitoria ternatea (as BB) shows diminished results than that of respective pure TiO2-incorporated photo-anode-based N-DSSCs.

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    T. G. Vignesh Prabhu & J. Chandrasekaran

  2. Department of Physics, Nano-crystal Design and Application Lab (n-DAL), PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641062, India

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  4. Department of Physics, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 602105, India

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All the authors contributed to the study conception and design. Materials preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by TGVP, JC, DT, PV, VB, All authors read and approved the final manuscript. TGVP Writing—original draft, Methodology, Conceptualization, Visualization, Methodology. JC Supervision, Writing—review & editing. DT: Writing—review & editing. PV: Writing—review & editing. VB: Writing—review & editing.

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Vignesh Prabhu, T.G., Chandrasekaran, J., Thangaraju, D. et al. Sensitizing performance of extracted natural dyes on MoO3-included Degussa composite photo-anode in DSSC fabrication. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 735 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10056-y

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