Rational design and construction of cocatalysts for semiconductor‐based photo‐electrochemical oxygen evolution: a comprehensive review

XT Xu, L Pan, X Zhang, L Wang, JJ Zou - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photo‐electrochemical (PEC) water splitting, as an essential and indispensable research
branch of solar energy applications, has achieved increasing attention in the past decades …

Chromophore-functionalized gold nanoparticles

KG Thomas, PV Kamat - Accounts of chemical research, 2003 - ACS Publications
We report in this Account the design of chromophore-functionalized metal nanoparticles and
the detailed investigation of the ground-and excited-state interactions between the metal …

Porphyrin‐and fullerene‐based molecular photovoltaic devices

H Imahori, S Fukuzumi - Advanced functional materials, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a novel strategy for the construction of molecular photovoltaic devices
where the porphyrins and fullerenes employed as building blocks are organized into …

Fullerenes in liquid media: an unsettling intrusion into the solution chemistry

NO Mchedlov-Petrossyan - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The compound C60 was successively predicted, 1, 2 revealed, 3 and prepared in
macroscopic quantities 4 within a 20 year period from 1970 to 1990. This molecule repeats …

Photovoltaic cells using composite nanoclusters of porphyrins and fullerenes with gold nanoparticles

T Hasobe, H Imahori, PV Kamat, TK Ahn… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Novel organic solar cells have been prepared using quaternary self-organization of
porphyrin (donor) and fullerene (acceptor) units by clusterization with gold nanoparticles on …

Blue copper model complexes with distorted tetragonal geometry acting as effective electron-transfer mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells

S Hattori, Y Wada, S Yanagida… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The electron self-exchange rate constants of blue copper model complexes,[(−)-sparteine-N,
N '](maleonitriledithiolato-S, S ') copper ([Cu (SP)(mmt)]) 0/-, bis (2, 9-dimethy-1, 10 …

Giant multiporphyrin arrays as artificial light-harvesting antennas

H Imahori - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2004 - ACS Publications
Synthetic giant multiporphyrin arrays with well-defined architectures are reviewed in terms of
artificial light-harvesting materials. Meso, meso-linked porphyrin arrays and multiporphyrin …

Quantum Dot Solar Cells. Electrophoretic Deposition of CdSe−C60 Composite Films and Capture of Photogenerated Electrons with nC60 Cluster Shell

P Brown, PV Kamat - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008 - ACS Publications
Encapsulation with an C60 cluster shell facilitates capture of photogenerated electrons from
CdSe quantum dots following visible light excitation. Electrophoretic deposition of CdSe …

Charge separation in a nonfluorescent donor− acceptor dyad derived from boron dipyrromethene dye, leading to photocurrent generation

S Hattori, K Ohkubo, Y Urano, H Sunahara… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY), which is commonly used as an energy absorbing and
transferring antenna molecule, has been modified to contain an electron donor moiety, 8-(2 …

Nanoporous SnO2 electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells: improved cell performance by the synthesis of 18 nm SnO2 colloids

S Chappel, A Zaban - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper reports on the synthesis of SnO2 18nm diameter colloidal suspension for the
fabrication of nanoporous electrodes. The new suspension allows the fabrication of thick …