Research Article

Guest-Host Interactions in Symmetrical Carboxy Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes-Titanium Dioxide Systems: Synthesis, Theoretical Calculations, Aggregation Properties, and Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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Optimized geometries for the (a) ground and (b) first excited states of cyanine 13 in PCM/methanol. A merged view (S0 and S1) was presented for comparison.
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