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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 135, 期 41, 页码 15450-15458出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja4055977
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- UNC EFRC Center for Solar Fuels, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001011, DE-FG02-06ER15788]
- Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program (DOE SCGF)
- ORISE-ORAU [DE-AC05-06OR23100]
The long-term performance of dye-sensitized solar and photoelectrochemical cells is strongly dependent on the stability of surface-bound chromophores and chromophore catalyst assemblies at metal oxide interfaces. We report here electropolymerization as a strategy for increasing interfacial stability and as a simple synthetic route for preparing spatially controlled, multicomponent films at an interface. We demonstrate that [Fe(v-tpy)(2)](2+) (v-tpy = 4'-vinyl-2,2':6',2 ''-terpyridine) can be reductively electropolymerized on nanocrystalline TiO2 functionalized with a phosphonate-derivatized Ru(II) polypyridyl chromophore. The outer:inner Fe:Ru ratio can be controlled by the number of reductive electrochemical scan cycles as shown by UV-visible absorption and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy measurements. Overlayer electropolymerization results in up to 30-fold enhancements in photostability compared to the surface-bound dye alone. Transient absorbance measurements have been used to demonstrate that photoexcitation and electron injection by the MLCT excited state(s) of the surface-bound Ru-II complex is followed by directional, outside-to-inside, Fe-II -> Ru-III electron transfer. This strategy is appealing in opening a new approach for synthesizing surface-stabilized chromophore catalyst assemblies on nanocrystalline metal oxide films.
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