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Natural Dye Sensitizer for Grӓtzel Cells: Sepia Melanin
Agnes Mbonyiryivuze, Isaiah Omollo, Balla Diop Ngom, Bonex Mwakikunga, Simon Mokhotjwa Dhlamini, Eugene Park, Malik Maaza
Physics and Materials Chemistry
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2015
, 3(1), 1-6 doi:10.12691/pmc-3-1-1
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. A schematic diagram of a dye-sensitized solar cell
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ure 2.
Sepia Officinalis (a) and the commercial sepia melanin from Sepia Officinalis (b)
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The XRD spectrum plotted from low data collected by
x-ray diffractometer in measuring sepia melanin.
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UV-Vis spectra of sepia melanin. The UV-Vis wavelength scan showed the absorption was highest at the UV region of 200 to 300 nm, but diminished towards the visible region
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Figure 5
. Typical Raman spectrum of sepia melanin.
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. Fitting analysis of the experimental average Raman spectrum (black continuous line) obtained by means of Gaussian functions (green continuous lines): the sum of the Gaussian bands (red continuous line) is in good agreement with the experimental spectrum.
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