Presentation Year
2021
Depreciated Participant
Albert Ochoa CastilloChemistryUndergraduate Student
College or Department
Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)
The excessive use of fossil fuels has surged the need for alternative energy sources, such as solar energy. Here, possible organic photovoltaic (OPV) compounds were designed and their initial computational assessment was done. Density Functional Theory was used to calculate the HOMO-LUMO gap of the 26 compounds designed. Semiconductors such as naphthalene, 1,1’-biphenyl, and ɑ-septithiophene were used as the backbone and the main electron-withdrawing group (EWG) used was thien[3,4-c] [1,2,5]thiadiazole-2-sIV(8CI,9CI), among other thieno-thiadiazole derivatives.
Is your project focused on any of the following?
sustainability (explores interrelationships between environment, society AND economy)
Permission to Publish Work
Yes
Node ID
948
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