Abstract |
Nowadays, the lack of fossil fuels, the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere and the
increasing energy demands make the exploitation of renewable energies imperative
and necessary. For this reason, the research and development of technologies that
give us the opportunity to exploit renewable energy sources (solar, wind,
geothermal, etc.) have attracted enormous scientific interest. A key feature of
renewable energy sources, in addition to being abundant, is that they can be used to
produce energy without burdening the environment. An ordinary and very efficient
source of energy is solar, which can be collected and stored through photovoltaic
cells. To date, the best commercially available cells are silicon based, but it is quite
difficult and expensive to produce them. Perovskite solar cells are a new technology
of photovoltaics. In less than a decade, continuous research to develop and improve
perovskite solar cells has led to the construction of devices with yields that are much
closer to those of commercially available silicon cells. Thus, the aim of this work is
the synthesis of a compound, which is a pair of porphyrin with cysteine, that are
linked by a triazine. In the final step, this compound will be incorporated between
the electron transport layer and the perovskite layer, so as to examine the
mechanical stability that, maybe, is attached to the device.
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