Journal
CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 22, Pages 5779-5786Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05595e
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, and Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001059]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-00ER45810, DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Department of Energy [DE-FG02-08ER46539]
- Northwestern University
- E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co.
- Dow Chemical Company
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- So. and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) [NSF ECCS-1542205]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-9871268]
- State of Illinois
- International Institute of Nanotechnology (IIN)
- SHyNE Resource [NSF NNCI-1542205]
- MRSEC program at the Materials Research Center [NSF DMR-1720139]
- International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN)
- Keck Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-08ER46539] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The development of stimuli-responsive amphiphilic supramolecular nanostructures is an attractive target for systems based on light-absorbing chromophores that can function as photosensitizers in water. We report here on a water soluble supramolecular carboxylated perylene monoimide system in which charge can be switched significantly by a change in pH. This was accomplished by substituting the perylene core with an ionizable hydroxyl group. In acidic environments, crystalline supramolecular nanoribbons with dimensions on the order of 500 x 50 x 2 nm form readily, while in basic solution the additional electrostatic repulsion of the ionized hydroxyl reduces assemblies to very small dimensions on the order of only several nanometers. The HOMO/LUMO levels were also found to be sensitive to pH; in acidic media the HOMO/LUMO levels are -5.65 and -3.70 eV respectively versus vacuum, whereas is in basic conditions they are -4.90 and -3.33 eV, respectively. Utilizing the assemblies as photosensitizers in photocatalytic production of hydrogen with [Mo3S13](2-) as a catalyst at a pH of 4, H-2 was generated with a turnover number of 125 after 18 hours. Charge switching the assemblies at a pH of 9-10 and using an iron porphyrin catalyst, protons could again be reduced to hydrogen and CO2 was reduced to CO with a turnover number of 30. The system investigated offers an example of dynamic photosensitizing assemblies that can drive reactions in both acidic and basic media.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available