Development of dye-sensitized solar cells using algal-based natural dyes for climate change mitigation

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Authors

Rahul Chauhan¹

1. IIT Indore

Conference / event

Recent Advances in Biosciences and Bioengineering 2022, December 2022 (Indore, India)

Poster summary

Generating traditional or conventional energy from fossil fuels emit greenhouse gases and cause different types of pollution resulting in 7 million deaths/ yr as per WHO. Mining and Dumping due to energy production and consumption causes destruction of natural ecosystems and reduced protection from natural calamities. Minerals required for Renewable Energy alternatives are non-abundant in nature and majority non-native to Bharat making us dependent on imported fuels and crucial minerals for energy production totaling to above 80% energy import for Bharat. Traditional Solar entities have high water print, hazardous production and recycling in comparison to eco friendly Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) developed with natural dye.

Keywords

Natural dye, Dye sensitized solar cell, Eco friendly solar cell, Biodegradable solar panel

Research areas

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Material Sciences, Energy Engineering

References

1. Chauhan, R. (2022). Scanning prevalent technologies to promote scalable devising of DSSCs: An emphasis on dye component precisely with a shift to ambient algal dyes. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 139, 109368.

Funding

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Additional information

Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2022 Chauhan. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.