Author : Allison Elizabeth Curtze
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis Design and Synthesis of Novel Perylenemonoimide Dyes for Solar Energy Conversion by : Allison Elizabeth Curtze
Download or read book Design and Synthesis of Novel Perylenemonoimide Dyes for Solar Energy Conversion written by Allison Elizabeth Curtze and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the protection offered by BH dyes affords photocathodes with long-term stability and high photocurrents in low pH aqueous conditions, p-DSPEC devices sensitized with BH4 have achieved less than ideal faradaic efficiencies attributed to catalyst decomposition. Thus, another new dye, cat-i, was designed and synthesized, featuring a pyridine moiety, which gives rise to the formation of a stable dye-catalyst supramolecule via axial coordination of the dye to the Co center of a well-known water reduction catalyst, Co(dmgBF2)2. Further, this dye-catalyst complexation could facilitate electron transfer from the photoexcited dye to the cobaloxime catalyst. When used as a sensitizer in a p-DSPEC device, the cat-i-cobaloxime complex exhibits significantly higher photocurrents than cat-i alone and produces H2 with 87% Faradaic efficiency.