Soft materials for photoelectrochemical fuel production

EL Ratcliff, Z Chen, CM Davis, EH Suh… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors are fascinating materials that could enable delivery of chemical
fuels from water and sunlight, offering several potential advantages over their inorganic …

Direct evidence for a sequential electron transfer–proton transfer mechanism in the PCET reduction of a metal hydroxide catalyst

MC Kessinger, J Xu, K Cui, Q Loague… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) mechanism for the reaction Mox–OH+ e–+
H+→ Mred–OH2 was determined through the kinetic resolution of the independent electron …

General Kinetic Model for pH Dependence of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Application to an Electrochemical Water Oxidation System

K Cui, AV Soudackov, MC Kessinger, J Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The pH dependence of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions, which are critical
to many chemical and biological processes, is a powerful probe for elucidating their …

Impact of Molecular Orientation on Lateral and Interfacial Electron Transfer at Oxide Interfaces

Q Loague, ND Keller, AV Müller… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dyes, called sensitizers, with a cis-[Ru (LL)(dcb)(NCS) 2] structure, where dcb is 4,
4′-(CO2H) 2-2, 2′-bipyridine and LL is dcb or a different diimine ligand, are among the …

Interrogating bioinspired ESIPT/PCET-based Ir (III)-complexes as organelle-targeted phototherapeutics: a redox-catalysis under hypoxia to evoke synergistic …

M Shee, D Zhang, M Banerjee, S Roy, B Pal… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Installing proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) in Ir-complexes is indeed a newly
explored phenomenon, offering high quantum efficiency and tunable photophysics; …

Kinetic Properties of Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysis in Hematite

N Snir, M Caspary Toroker - Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water splitting is a promising method for hydrogen generation, but current catalytic reactions
suffer from low efficiency. One possible reason for such inefficiency is a high kinetic barrier …

Effects of hydrogen bonding on intramolecular/intermolecular proton-coupled electron transfer using a Ruthenium-anthraquinone dyad in ultrafast time domain

A Dey, N Ghorai, A Das, HN Ghosh - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A ruthenium-anthraquinone dyad consisting of the bi-imidazole spacer in which one
imidazole proton acts as a hydrogen bonding agent is employed to investigate the effects of …

Direct Evidence for Buffer-Enhanced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Metal Aquo Bond Formation

M Kessinger, T Whittemore, S Grandi, E Danilov… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions play a crucial role in the interconversion
of metal-aqua and metal-hydroxo species present in transition metal complexes and oxide …

Theoretical study of proton-coupled electron transfer reaction in metal-hydride complexes

X Liu, X Dan, Q Shi - Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Metal-hydride (MH) complexes are crucial for a variety of catalytic reactions. There have
been indications of concerted proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reaction recently in …

[PDF][PDF] Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Kinetics and Reorganization Energies at a Conductive Metal Oxide Interface

J Xu, M Kessinger, G Meyer - 2023 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
Artificial photosynthesis, the process of generating usable fuels with solar power via
photocatalysis, provides a promising and bountiful source of energy that offers a potential …