Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Accessing photoredox transformations with an iron (III) photosensitizer and green light

A Aydogan, RE Bangle, A Cadranel… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efficient excited-state electron transfer between an iron (III) photosensitizer and organic
electron donors was realized with green light irradiation. This advance was enabled by the …

Perspectives on dye sensitization of nanocrystalline mesoporous thin films

K Hu, RN Sampaio, J Schneider… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in our mechanistic understanding of dye-sensitized electron transfer
reactions occurring at metal oxide interfaces are described. These advances were enabled …

Improved visible light absorption of potent iridium (III) photo-oxidants for excited-state electron transfer chemistry

R Bevernaegie, SAM Wehlin, EJ Piechota… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Three iridium photosensitizers,[Ir (dCF3ppy) 2 (N–N)]+, where N–N is 1, 4, 5, 8-
tetraazaphenanthrene (TAP), pyrazino [2, 3-a] phenazine (pzph), or benzo [a] pyrazino [2, 3 …

Multimodal Biofilm Inactivation Using a Photocatalytic Bismuth Perovskite–TiO2–Ru(II)polypyridyl-Based Multisite Heterojunction

N Kandoth, SP Chaudhary, S Gupta, K Raksha… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Infectious bacterial biofilms are recalcitrant to most antibiotics compared to their planktonic
version, and the lack of appropriate therapeutic strategies for mitigating them poses a …

Photocatalyzed diastereoselective isomerization of cinnamyl chlorides to cyclopropanes

B Xu, L Troian-Gautier, R Dykstra… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Endergonic isomerizations are thermodynamically unfavored processes that are difficult to
realize under thermal conditions. We report a photocatalytic and diastereoselective …

Kinetic evidence that the solvent barrier for electron transfer is absent in the electric double layer

RE Bangle, J Schneider, DT Conroy… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Classical capacitance studies have revealed that the first layer of water present at an
aqueous metal–electrolyte interface has a dielectric constant less than 1/10th of that of bulk …

On the determination of halogen atom reduction potentials with photoredox catalysts

AM Deetz, L Troian-Gautier, SAM Wehlin… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The standard one-electron reduction potentials of halogen atoms, E°′(X•/–), and many
other radical or unstable species, are not accessible through standard electrochemical …

Charge recombination with fractional reaction orders in water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells

P Xu, CL Gray, L Xiao, TE Mallouk - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells (WS-DSPECs), charge
recombination competes with catalytic water oxidation to determine the overall efficiency of …

Lewis acid–lewis base interactions promote fast interfacial electron transfers with a pyridine-based donor dye in dye-sensitized solar cells

D Nugegoda, LA Hunt, A Devdass… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Increasing the rate of productive interfacial electron transfer reactions in dye-sensitized solar
cells is critically important toward improving device performances. Preorganized electron …