Niharika’s Publication with the Delcamp Group

Niharika Dalpati’s final work from our lab was recently published in ACS Applied Energy Materials. This work was in collaboration with Jared Delcamp’s group at the University of Mississippi. His student, Ravinder Kaur, and Niharika contributed equally to the work and collaborated wonderfully prior to Niharika’s passing in April 2023. Publication of this work was a long road following that event and we are pleased to finally share her work in this publication. In short, this research details how nickel dithiocarbamate complexes can operate as effective redox shuttles in dye-sensitized solar cells. These molecules operate with a similar redox cycle as the popular I^–/I₃^– redox shuttle. Comparative studies between the two types of shuttles at matched concentrations showed that the nickel complexes outperformed I^–/I₃^–.