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Superior light harnessing and charge injection kinetics utilizing mirror-like nano cuboidal ceria coupled with reduced graphene oxide in zinc oxide nanoparticle based photovoltaics
摘要： Efficiency in nanoparticle based photovoltaics is limited by optical transparency, light absorption as well as detrimental back transfer of electron at the hetero-interfaces. Three dimensional (3D) micro/nanostructures with excellent light scattering properties play pivotal role in light harvesting efficiency in DSSCs. Present study deals with the design and development of ternary hybrid photoanode utilizing high quality mirror like nano-cuboidal ceria (CeO2 NC) and 2D- reduced graphene oxide (RGO) sheets in conjunction with ZnO nanoparticle. A ～6% power conversion efficiency has been achieved for photoanode with optimized CeO2 NC loaded with 1 wt% RGO into ZnO NP. CeO2 NC owing to its size and high quality mirror like facets provides a better light harvesting by multiple interactions of incident photon with the absorber as revealed by UV–Vis diffused reflectance and IPCE analysis. 2D- RGO is proposed to act as an electron sink and provides faster electron transport pathway. Inclusion of 2D- RGO sheets yields a better charge injection kinetics (keinj ～ 2.3 × 108 s?1 for ternary, 1.1 × 108 s?1 for reference device) and collection at FTO as well as elevated recombination resistance (Rrec) and photo-induced electron life time (τe), unveiled by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic (EIS) analysis corroborates a reduced reverse tunneling of photo-injected electron at ZnO/sensitizer/redox couple interface.
关键词： Diffusion,Mirror-like,Light scattering material,Reduced graphene oxide,Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy,Nano cuboidal
更新于2025-11-21 11:01:37
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Core-Shell Modeling of Light Scattering by Vesicles: Effect of Size, Contents, and Lamellarity
摘要： Having a fast, reliable method for characterizing vesicles is vital for their use as model cell membranes in biophysics, synthetic biology, and origins of life studies. Instead of the traditionally used Rayleigh-Gans-Debye approximation, we use an exact extended Lorenz-Mie solution for how core-shell particles scatter light to model vesicle turbidity. This approach enables accurate interpretations of simple turbidimetric measurements and is able to accurately model highly scattering vesicles, such as larger vesicles, those with multiple layers, and those with encapsulated material. We uncover several surprising features, including that vesicle lamellarity has a larger effect on sample turbidity than vesicle size and that the technique can be used to measure the membrane thickness of vesicles. We also examine potential misinterpretations of turbidimetry and discuss when measurements are limited by forward and multiple scattering and by the geometry of the instrument.
关键词： Lorenz-Mie theory,turbidimetry,membrane thickness,vesicles,lamellarity,light scattering
更新于2025-11-19 16:56:35
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Cationic porphyrins with large side arm substituents as resonance light scattering ratiometric probes for specific recognition of nucleic acid G-quadruplexes
摘要： Specific G-quadruplex-probing is crucial for both biological sciences and biosensing applications. Most reported probes are focused on fluorescent or colorimetric recognition of G-quadruplexes. Herein, for the first time, we reported a new specific G-quadruplex-probing technique—resonance light scattering (RLS)-based ratiometric recognition. To achieve the RLS probing of G-quadruplexes in the important physiological pH range of 7.4-6.0, four water soluble cationic porphyrin derivatives, including an unreported octa-cationic porphyrin, with large side arm substituents were synthesized and developed as RLS probes. These RLS probes were demonstrated to work well for ratiometric recognition of G-quadruplexes with high specificity against single- and double-stranded DNAs, including long double-stranded ones. The working mechanism was speculated to be based on the RLS signal changes caused by porphyrin protonation that was promoted by the end-stacking of porphyrins on G-quadruplexes. This work adds an important member in G-quadruplex probe family, thus providing a useful tool for studies on G-quadruplex-related events concerning G-quadruplex formation, destruction and changes in size, shape and aggregation. As a proof-of-concept example of applications, the RLS probes were demonstrated to work well for label-free and sequence-specific sensing of microRNA. This work also provides a simple and useful way for the preparation of cationic porphyrins with high charges.
关键词： G-quadruplex,ratiometric recognition,microRNA sensing,resonance light scattering,cationic porphyrin
更新于2025-11-19 16:56:35
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Hierarchical ZnO microspheres embedded in TiO2 photoanode for enhanced CdS/CdSe sensitized solar cells
摘要： Control of structural and compositional characteristics of photoanodes is a crucial step toward rapid transport of charges and high efficiency loading of dye or quantum dots in case of solar cell application. A hierarchical ZnO microspheres (ZMS) and TiO2 hybrid photoanode film was prepared for improved CdS/CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSCs). The addition of ZMS into TiO2 electrode films resulted in both increased short circuit current density (Jsc) and open circuit voltage (Voc). Such an improvement is ascribed to the increased light harvesting owing to scattering by ZMS and the reduced charge recombination due to the surface modification. TiO2/ZMS hybrid photoanode displays superior charge injection/transport performance due to the ZMS with unique hierarchical structure, providing charge transfer continuity and multiple electron transport channels for timely electron transport. As a result, the Jsc, Voc, and the photovoltaic conversion efficiency (PCE) were all remarkably enhanced with the insertion of hierarchical ZMS though varied appreciably with the amount of ZMS. Thus, the designed TiO2/ZMS heterostructure based QDSCs with an optimizing ZMS ratio of 20 wt% achieved a PCE of 5.99%, which is about 35% increase of the efficiency for the devices without ZMS (4.45%).
关键词： electron transport,ZnO microspheres,charge injection,quantum dot-sensitized solar cells,photoanode,light scattering
更新于2025-11-14 17:04:02
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Hole Blocking Layer-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with High Efficiencies and Stabilities by Integrating Subwavelength-Sized Plasmonic Alloy Nanoparticles
摘要： Perovskite solar cells hold great promise as prospective alternatives of renewable power sources. Recently hole blocking layer-free perovskite solar cells, getting rid of complex and high-temperature fabrication processes, have engaged in innovative designs of photovoltaic devices. However, the elimination of the hole blocking layer constrains the energy conversion efficiencies of perovskite solar cells, and severely degrades the stabilities. In this paper a simple approach (without energy-consuming and time-consuming procedures) for the fabrication of hole blocking layer-free perovskite solar cells has been demonstrated by an integration of copper-silver alloy nanoparticles, which are synthesized by wet chemical method with controllable diameters and elemental compositions. The rear-side integration of the subwavelength-sized silver-copper alloy particles (200 nm diameter), through a spraying/drying method, realizes a pronounced absorption enhancement of the perovskite layer by effectively light scattering in a broadband wavelength range, and achieves a series resistance decrease of the solar cell due to high electrical conductivities of the alloy particles. The particle integration achieves the highest efficiency of 18.89% due to the significant improvement in both optical and electrical properties of solar cells, making this device one of the highest-performing blocking layer-free perovskite solar cells and plasmonic perovskite solar cells. Moreover, the copper-based nanoparticles prevent the perovskite from diffusing into metal back electrodes. Because the diffusion can lead to a severe corrosion of the Au electrode and thus an efficiency degradation, the alloy nanoparticle integration between the perovskite and the electrode results in 80% and 200% improvements in the long-term stability and the photostability of solar cells, respectively. Through the proposed simple and effective fabrication process, our results open up new opportunities in the manufacturability of perovskite solar cells.
关键词： light scattering,Perovskite solar cells,plasmonic,subwavelength-sized,alloy,hole blocking layer,stability
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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A novel approach for in-situ soot size distribution measurement based on spectrally resolved light scattering
摘要： The present study demonstrates the exploitation of the spectral elastic light scattering technique. Additional information provided by the spectral response of the light scattering signals enables the measurement of the soot size distribution with only two scattering angles. It also provides quantitative data on the spectral dependence of the soot optical index, which is related to the soot chemical composition. The measurement principle consists in dividing the scattered spectra collected at two scattering angles and processing this ratio using the Rayleigh–Debye–Gans theory for Fractal Aggregates (RDG-FA). It is shown that the median diameter of gyration and geometric standard deviation of a lognormal soot size distribution can be determined without any prior information on key parameters such as the fractal prefactor, particle primary diameter, aggregate number density and soot optical properties. A proof of concept was performed on soot particles produced by a miniCAST generator by comparing the optical results with the soot size distributions measured by SMPS. A statistical Bayesian inversion approach was used to determine posterior distributions with a particular emphasis on their uncertainty quantification.
关键词： Light scattering,Bayesian,Spectral scattering,Optical properties,Soot,Size distribution
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Study of the scattered light with the strip beam incident to the LiNbO3:Fe crystal
摘要： In this paper, we systematically studied the scattered light when the stripe beam of ordinary polarized light and extraordinary polarized light are incident to the LiNbO3:Fe crystal, respectively. First, we observed the variation of scattered light with the different angle between the stripe beam and the c-axis. And find the scattered light is growing with time along the c-axis direction of the crystal when the e-light is incident; while the scattered light is growing along a special direction which is not the c-axis direction or the stripe direction, when o-light is incident to the crystal. Then we analyzed the causes of these phenomena. In addition, we also studied the diffraction efficiency of o-light and e-light, and the raster image in the crystal.
关键词： nonlinear optics,light scattering,photorefractive effect
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Protein-Protein Interactions of Highly Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Solutions via Static Light Scattering and Influence on the Viscosity
摘要： The ability to design and formulate mAbs to minimize attractive interactions at high concentrations is important for protein processing, stability and administration, particularly in subcutaneous delivery, where high viscosities are often challenging. The strength of protein-protein interactions (PPI) of an IgG1 and IgG4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) from low to high concentration were determined by static light scattering (SLS) and used to understand viscosity data. The PPI were tuned using NaCl and five organic ionic co-solutes. The PPI strength was quantified by the normalized structure factor S(0)/S(0)HS and Kirkwood-Buff integral G22/G22,HS (HS = hard sphere) determined from the SLS data, and also by fits with (1) a spherical Yukawa potential and (2) an interacting hard sphere (IHS) model, which describes attraction in terms of hypothetical oligomers. The IHS model was better able to capture the scattering behavior of the more strongly-interacting systems (mAb and/or co-solute) than the spherical Yukawa potential. For each descriptor of PPI, linear correlations were obtained between the viscosity at high concentration (200 mg/mL) and the interaction strengths evaluated both at low (20 mg/mL) and high concentration (200 mg/mL) for a given mAb. However, the only parameter that provided a correlation across both mAbs was the oligomer mass ratio (moligomer/mmonomer+dimer) from the IHS model, indicating the importance of self-association (in addition to the direct influence of the attractive PPI) on the viscosity.
关键词： Protein-protein interactions,static light scattering,co-solutes,monoclonal antibody,viscosity,interacting hard sphere model,Yukawa potential
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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[IEEE 2018 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference (SHIRCON) - Lima, Peru (2018.11.20-2018.11.22)] 2018 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference (SHIRCON) - Low Cost Air Quality Measurement System Using Light Scattering Sensors
摘要： Air pollution is a very sensitive issue since currently, Lima is one of the places where there is greater air pollution by particulate matter in the world (PM10). Resulting in long-term health problems, especially in the respiratory and cardiovascular system that is why analyzing and knowing the quality of the air that we breathe, it is essential to prevent health problems in the future. Therefore, this research proposes an air quality measurement system based on Arduino and low-cost sensors that will provide us with a low-cost tool to determine the quality of the air we breathe. This system focuses on a matrix of sensors that will monitor the temperature and humidity conditions, as well as gases harmful to our health and PM10. Finally, these measured values will be reflected in an LCD revealing the values in real time.
关键词： particulate matter,light scattering sensor,polluting gases,Arduino
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Resonance Rayleigh Scattering Method for the Determination of Green Food DNA Based on the Interaction of O-hydroxyphenylfluorone with DNA
摘要： A new spectroscopic analysis method was built for the determination of green food DNA based on the interaction of o-Hydroxyphenylfluorone (o-HPF) with DNA using the resonance Rayleigh Light Scattering (RLS) technique. In the Tris-HCl buffer at pH 8.1, the RLS signal of o-HPF was enhanced remarkably in the presence of DNA and the enhanced RLS intensity at 519 nm was in direct proportion to DNA concentration in the range of 0.02-1.8×10-5 g/L with a good linear relationship. The detection limit was 4.6×10-8 g/L. The method was simple, rapid and high accuracy which had been applied to the determination of green food DNA in sample with satisfactory results.
关键词： Green food DNA,o-HPF,resonance rayleigh light scattering
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29