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De Angelis F, Di Valentin C, Fantacci S, Vittadini A, Selloni A. Theoretical Studies on Anatase and Less Common TiO2 Phases: Bulk, Surfaces, and Nanomaterials. Chem Rev 2014; 114:9708-53. [DOI: 10.1021/cr500055q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 321] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Filippo De Angelis
- Computational
Laboratory for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO), Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20125 Milano, Italy
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- Computational
Laboratory for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO), Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto
CNR per l’Energetica e le Interfasi (IENI), c/o Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche, Universita’ di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Long R, Prezhdo OV. Asymmetry in the electron and hole transfer at a polymer-carbon nanotube heterojunction. NANO LETTERS 2014; 14:3335-3341. [PMID: 24841921 DOI: 10.1021/nl500792a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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To achieve a high photon-to-charge conversion efficiency, the electron-hole pair generated by photon absorption in organic photovoltaic systems must overcome the Coulomb attraction, which often results in voltage loss. Bearing this in mind, we performed ab initio time-domain simulations of the charge separation and energy relaxation across an interface formed by poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and a single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT). The dynamics of the positive and negative charges showed strong asymmetry. Photoexcitation of the polymer leads to a 100 fs electron transfer, in agreement with the experiment, followed by a loss of 0.6 eV of energy within 0.5 ps. Photoexcitation of the CNT leads to hole transfer, which requires nearly 2 ps, but loses only 0.3 eV of energy. The strong disparity arises due to the differences in the localization of the photoexcited donor states, the number densities of the acceptor states, and the phonon modes involved. Used as a chromophore, P3HT produces faster charge separation but leads to larger energy losses and cannot harvest light in the red region of the solar spectrum. In contrast, CNT absorbs a broader range of photons and reduces energy losses but gives a less efficient charge separation. The complementary properties of the two chromophores can be utilized to improve the performance of solar cells by optimizing simultaneously light harvesting, charge separation, and energy relaxation, which affect the photovoltaic yield, current, and voltage.
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- Run Long
- School of Physics, Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin , Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Akimov AV, Long R, Prezhdo OV. Coherence penalty functional: A simple method for adding decoherence in Ehrenfest dynamics. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:194107. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4875702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Guo Z, Prezhdo OV, Hou T, Chen X, Lee ST, Li Y. Fast Energy Relaxation by Trap States Decreases Electron Mobility in TiO2 Nanotubes: Time-Domain Ab Initio Analysis. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:1642-1647. [PMID: 26270359 DOI: 10.1021/jz500565v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays can be grown by simple electrochemical anodization of a titanium metal sheet, stimulating intense research and applications to solar cells and fuels. TiO2 nanotubes were expected to exhibit better electron transport than nanocrystal films. However, experiments showed that nanotubes provided little advantage over nanoparticles. Using nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, we demonstrate that oxygen vacancies, which are common in TiO2, accelerate nonradiative energy losses by an order of magnitude. Oxygen vacancies produce localized Ti(3+) states hundreds of millielectronvolts below the TiO2 conduction band. The states lower the nanotube band gap, trap excited electrons, induce stronger electron-phonon couplings, and facilitate the relaxation. Our results rationalize the unforeseen experimental observations and provide the atomistic basis for improving the structure and charge transport by TiO2 nanotubes.
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, United States
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Tafen DN, Long R, Prezhdo OV. Dimensionality of nanoscale TiO2 determines the mechanism of photoinduced electron injection from a CdSe nanoparticle. NANO LETTERS 2014; 14:1790-1796. [PMID: 24611556 DOI: 10.1021/nl404352a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Assumptions about electron transfer (ET) mechanisms guide design of catalytic, photovoltaic, and electronic systems. We demonstrate that the mechanism of ET from a CdSe quantum dot (QD) into nanoscale TiO2 depends on TiO2 dimensionality. The injection into a TiO2 QD is adiabatic due to strong donor-acceptor coupling, arising from unsaturated chemical bonds on the QD surface, and low density of acceptor states. In contrast, the injection into a TiO2 nanobelt (NB) is nonadiabatic, because the state density is high, the donor-acceptor coupling is weak, and multiple phonons accommodate changes in the electronic energy. The CdSe adsorbant breaks symmetry of delocalized TiO2 NB states, relaxing coupling selection rules, and generating more ET channels. Both mechanisms can give efficient ultrafast injection. However, the dependence on system properties is very different for the two mechanisms, demonstrating that the fundamental principles leading to efficient charge separation depend strongly on the type of nanoscale material.
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- De Nyago Tafen
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, 1450 Queen Avenue SW, Albany, Oregon 97321, United States
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Long R, Prezhdo OV. Instantaneous Generation of Charge-Separated State on TiO2 Surface Sensitized with Plasmonic Nanoparticles. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:4343-54. [DOI: 10.1021/ja5001592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Run Long
- School of Physics and Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Akimov AV, Prezhdo OV. Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Charge Transfer and Singlet Fission at the Pentacene/C60 Interface. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:1599-608. [DOI: 10.1021/ja411800n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Alexey V. Akimov
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Wang J, Li M, Qi D, Shen W, He R, Lin SH. Exploring photophysical properties of metal-free coumarin sensitizers: an efficient strategy to improve the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra07904c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The five important parameters (φLHE,φinject,φreg,φcc,Voc) for DSSCs are improved by modifying the dyes with electron-deficient units.
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- Jinghui Wang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Southwest University
- Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Southwest University
- Chongqing 400715, China
- Education Ministry Key Laboratory on Luminescence and Real-Time Analysis
- Southwest University
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Southwest University
- Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Southwest University
- Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Southwest University
- Chongqing 400715, China
- Education Ministry Key Laboratory on Luminescence and Real-Time Analysis
- Southwest University
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Institute of Molecular Science and Center for Interdisciplinary Molecular Science
- National Chiao-Tung University
- Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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Long R, English NJ, Prezhdo OV. Defects Are Needed for Fast Photo-Induced Electron Transfer from a Nanocrystal to a Molecule: Time-Domain Ab Initio Analysis. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:18892-900. [DOI: 10.1021/ja408936j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Run Long
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Shu Y, Levine BG. Reducing the propensity for unphysical wavefunction symmetry breaking in multireference calculations of the excited states of semiconductor clusters. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:074102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4817965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dong C, Li X, Zhao W, Jin P, Fan X, Qi J. Elementary Photoelectronic Processes at a Porphyrin Dye/Single-Walled TiO2Nanotube Hetero-interface in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A First-Principles Study. Chemistry 2013; 19:10046-56. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201301035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Akimov AV, Muckerman JT, Prezhdo OV. Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Positive Charge during Photocatalytic Water Splitting on GaN(10-10) Surface: Charge Localization Governs Splitting Efficiency. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:8682-91. [DOI: 10.1021/ja4029395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Alexey V. Akimov
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
United States
- Chemistry
Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973,
United States
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- Chemistry
Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
United States
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Akimov AV, Neukirch AJ, Prezhdo OV. Theoretical Insights into Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Catalysis at Oxide Interfaces. Chem Rev 2013; 113:4496-565. [DOI: 10.1021/cr3004899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 402] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Alexey V. Akimov
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
United States
- Chemistry
Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000,
United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627,
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Williams KJ, Nelson CA, Yan X, Li LS, Zhu X. Hot electron injection from graphene quantum dots to TiO₂. ACS NANO 2013; 7:1388-94. [PMID: 23347000 DOI: 10.1021/nn305080c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The Shockley-Queisser limit is the maximum power conversion efficiency of a conventional solar cell based on a single semiconductor junction. One approach to exceed this limit is to harvest hot electrons/holes that have achieved quasi-equilibrium in the light absorbing material with electronic temperatures higher than the phonon temperature. We argue that graphene based materials are viable candidates for hot carrier chromophores. Here we probe hot electron injection and charge recombination dynamics for graphene quantum dots (QDs, each containing 48 fused benzene rings) anchored to the TiO₂(110) surface via carboxyl linkers. We find ultrafast electron injection from photoexcited graphene QDs to the TiO₂ conduction band with time constant τ(i) < 15 fs and charge recombination dynamics characterized by a fast channel (τ(r1) = 80-130 fs) and a slow one (τ(r2) = 0.5-2 ps). The fast decay channel is attributed to the prompt recombination of the bound electron-hole pair across the interface. The slow channel depends strongly on excitation photon energy or sample temperature and can be explained by a "boomerang" mechanism, in which hot electrons are injected into bulk TiO₂, cooled down due to electron-phonon scattering, drifted back to the interface under the transient electric field, and recombine with the hole on graphene QDs. We discuss feasibilities of implementing the hot carrier solar cell using graphene nanomaterials.
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- Kenrick J Williams
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Nelson TR, Prezhdo OV. Extremely Long Nonradiative Relaxation of Photoexcited Graphane Is Greatly Accelerated by Oxidation: Time-Domain Ab Initio Study. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:3702-10. [DOI: 10.1021/ja400033g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Tammie R. Nelson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Chaban VV, Prezhdo VV, Prezhdo OV. Covalent Linking Greatly Enhances Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Fullerene-Quantum Dot Nanocomposites: Time-Domain Ab Initio Study. J Phys Chem Lett 2013; 4:1-6. [PMID: 26291202 DOI: 10.1021/jz301878y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics combined with time-domain density functional theory are used to study electron transfer (ET) from a CdSe quantum dot (QD) to the C60 fullerene, occurring in several types of hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposites. By unveiling the time dependence of the ET process, we show that covalent bonding between the QD and C60 is particularly important to ensure ultrafast transmission of the excited electron from the QD photon-harvester to the C60 electron acceptor. Despite the close proximity of the donor and acceptor species provided by direct van der Waals contact, it leads to a notably weaker QD-C60 interaction than a lengthy molecular bridge. We show that the ET rate in a nonbonded mixture of QDs and C60 can be enhanced by doping. The photoinduced ET is promoted primarily by mid- and low-frequency vibrations. The study establishes the basic design principles for enhancing photoinduced charge separation in nanoscale light harvesting materials.
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- Vitaly V Chaban
- †Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
- ‡MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, Odense M. 5230, Denmark
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- §Institute of Chemistry, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Su F, Lu J, Tian Y, Ma X, Gong J. Branched TiO2 nanoarrays sensitized with CdS quantum dots for highly efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:12026-32. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp51291f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Jang S. Nonadiabatic quantum Liouville and master equations in the adiabatic basis. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:22A536. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4748142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Sousa C, Tosoni S, Illas F. Theoretical Approaches to Excited-State-Related Phenomena in Oxide Surfaces. Chem Rev 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/cr300228z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Carmen Sousa
- Departament de Química
Física and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional
(IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí
i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química
Física and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional
(IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí
i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Departamento de Química, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario
de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Departament de Química
Física and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional
(IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí
i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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González-Navarrete P, Andrés J, Berski S. How a Quantum Chemical Topology Analysis Enables Prediction of Electron Density Transfers in Chemical Reactions. The Degenerated Cope Rearrangement of Semibullvalene. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:2500-2505. [PMID: 26292140 DOI: 10.1021/jz300974v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Recent works on the reaction mechanism for the degenerated Cope rearrangement (DCR) of semibullvalene (SBV) in the ground state prompted us to investigate this complex rearrangement in order to assign experimentally observed contrast features in the simulated electron distribution. We present a joint use of the electron localization function (ELF) and Thom's catastrophe theory (CT) as a powerful tool to analyze the electron density transfers along the DCR. The progress of the reaction is monitored by the structural stability domains of the topology of ELF, while the change between them is controlled by turning points derived from CT. The ELF topological analysis shows that the DCR of SBV corresponds to asynchronous electron density rearrangement taking place in three consecutive stages. We show how the pictures anticipated by drawing Lewis structures of the rearrangement correlate with the experimental data and time-dependent quantum description of the process.
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- †Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain
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- ‡Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383 Wroclaw, Poland
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Long R, English NJ, Prezhdo OV. Photo-induced Charge Separation across the Graphene–TiO2 Interface Is Faster than Energy Losses: A Time-Domain ab Initio Analysis. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:14238-48. [DOI: 10.1021/ja3063953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Run Long
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, New York 14620, United States
- Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- The SEC Research Cluster, School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- The SEC Research Cluster, School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, New York 14620, United States
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Raghunathan S, Nest M. Limits of the Creation of Electronic Wave Packets Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:8490-3. [PMID: 22835058 DOI: 10.1021/jp3047483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Shampa Raghunathan
- Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85747
Garching, Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85747
Garching, Germany
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Fernandez-Alberti S, Roitberg AE, Nelson T, Tretiak S. Identification of unavoided crossings in nonadiabatic photoexcited dynamics involving multiple electronic states in polyatomic conjugated molecules. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:014512. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4732536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Zhang J, Alexandrova AN. Double σ-Aromaticity in a Surface-Deposited Cluster: Pd4 on TiO2 (110). J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:751-754. [PMID: 26286284 DOI: 10.1021/jz300158s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We report double σ-aromaticity in a surface-deposited cluster, Pd4, on the TiO2 (110) surface. In the gas phase, Pd4 adopts a tetrahedral structure. However, surface binding promotes a flat, σ-aromatic cluster. This is the first time aromaticity has been found in surface-deposited clusters. The concept of aromaticity is expected to become instrumental in predicting and interpreting properties of such systems, much like it is for isolated molecules and clusters.
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- Jin Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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Gonzalez-Vazquez JP, Morales-Flórez V, Anta JA. How Important is Working with an Ordered Electrode to Improve the Charge Collection Efficiency in Nanostructured Solar Cells? J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:386-393. [PMID: 26285856 DOI: 10.1021/jz2015988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The collection efficiency of carriers in solar cells based on nanostructured electrodes is determined for different degrees or morphological one-dimensional order. The transport process is modeled by random walk numerical simulation in a mesoporous electrode that resembles the morphology of nanostructured TiO2 electrodes typically used in dye-sensitized solar cells and related systems. By applying an energy relaxation procedure in the presence of an external potential, a preferential direction is induced in the system. It is found that the partially ordered electrode can almost double the collection efficiency with respect to the disordered electrode. However, this improvement depends strongly on the probability of recombination. For too rapid or too slow recombination, working with partially ordered electrodes will not be beneficial. The computational method utilized here makes it possible to relate the charge collection efficiency with morphology. The collection efficiency is found to reach very rapidly a saturation value, meaning that, in the region of interest, a slight degree of ordering might be sufficient to induce a large improvement in collection efficiency.
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- ‡Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Américo Vespucio 49, E-41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- †Área de Química Física, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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Yang Y, Rodríguez-Córdoba W, Xiang X, Lian T. Strong electronic coupling and ultrafast electron transfer between PbS quantum dots and TiO2 nanocrystalline films. NANO LETTERS 2012; 12:303-9. [PMID: 22182013 DOI: 10.1021/nl2035783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Hot carrier and multiple exciton extractions from lead salt quantum dots (QDs) to TiO(2) single crystals have been reported. Implementing these ideas on practical solar cells likely requires the use of nanocrystalline TiO(2) thin films to enhance the light harvesting efficiency. Here, we report 6.4 ± 0.4 fs electron transfer time from PbS QDs to TiO(2) nanocrystalline thin films, suggesting the possibility of extracting hot carriers and multiple excitons in solar cells based on these materials.
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- Ye Yang
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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