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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 135, Issue 3, Pages 955-958Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja3097114
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DOE-BES) [DE-FG02-87ER13808, DE-SC0001059, DE-AC02- 06CH11357]
- ANSER Center
- Energy Frontier Research Center
- Center for Nanoscale Materials
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Because of their efficient energy-transport properties, porphyrin-based metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are attractive compounds for solar photochemistry applications. However, their absorption bands provide limited coverage in the visible spectral range for light-harvesting applications. We report here the functionalization of porphyrin-based MOFs with CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) for the enhancement of light harvesting via energy transfer from the QDs to the MOFs. The broad absorption band of the QDs in the visible region offers greater coverage of the solar spectrum by QD-MOF hybrid structures. We show through time-resolved emission studies that photoexcitation of the QDs is followed by energy transfer to the MOFs with efficiencies of more than 80%. This sensitization approach can result in a >50% increase in the number of photons harvested by a single monolayer MOF structure with a monolayer of QDs on the surface of the MOF.
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