Table 1 Calculated physical describtors for PEO interaction with different metal oxides using DFT:B3LYP/6–31(d,p) model.

From: Theoretical and experimental investigation of a CuO and graphene embedded polyethylene oxide counter electrode for efficient DSSCs

Parameters

PEO

PEO/MgO

PEO/SiO2

PEO/TiO2

PEO/NiO

PEO/CuO

PEO/ZnO

PEO/ZrO2

TDM

0.000

14.100

11.822

16.597

10.035

10.482

11.607

15.939

∆E

8.632

02.106

02.642

03.188

01.828

00.422

01.433

03.103

EHOMO

 − 6.485

 − 05.217

 − 07.421

 − 05.762

 − 07.328

 − 06.946

 − 07.396

 − 04.744

ELUMO

2.147

 − 03.111

 − 04.780

 − 02.574

 − 05.501

 − 06.524

 − 05.963

 − 01.641

IP =—EHOMO

6.485

05.217

07.421

05.762

07.328

06.946

07.396

04.744

EA =—ELUMO

 − 2.147

03.111

04.780

02.574

05.501

06.524

05.963

01.641

χ = (IP + EA)/2

2.169

04.164

06.101

04.168

06.415

06.735

06.680

03.193

η = (IP—EA)/2

4.316

00.527

01.321

01.594

00.914

00.106

00.717

01.552

σ = 1/ η

0.232

01.899

00.757

00.627

01.094

09.434

01.395

00.644

ω = μ2/2η

0.545

16.450

14.089

05.449

22.512

213.963

31.558

03.285

ε = 1/ ω

1.835

00.061

00.071

00.184

00.044

00.005

00.032

00.304