From black pigment to green energy: shedding light on melanin electrochemistry in dye-sensitized solar cells

2025/01/01 by Noah Al‐Shamery, Jun‐Hyeok Park, S. Kim +5 · 1 voice
Energy · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Electrochemical sensors and biosensors #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5ma00081e

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/24

Abstract

We demonstrate high cycling stability of eumelanin on TiO 2 and record-breaking melanin-DSSC efficiencies of 0.24% before/0.42% after UV-light exposure.

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