Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of dipyrromethene-based materials: insights into their applications in organic photovoltaic devices

A Bessette, GS Hanan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This review article presents the most recent developments in the use of materials based on
dipyrromethene (DPM) and azadipyrromethenes (ADPM) for organic photovoltaic (OPV) …

Towards efficient spectral converters through materials design for luminescent solar devices

B McKenna, RC Evans - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction photovoltaic devices exhibit a bottleneck in their efficiency due to incomplete
or inefficient harvesting of photons in the low‐or high‐energy regions of the solar spectrum …

BODIPY dye, the most versatile fluorophore ever?

J Banuelos - The Chemical Record, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BODIPY laser dyes constitute a fascinating topic of research in modern photochemistry due
to the large variety of options its chromophore offers, which is ready available for a multitude …

[HTML][HTML] Through bond energy transfer (TBET)-based fluorescent chemosensors

D Cao, L Zhu, Z Liu, W Lin - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Excitation energy transfer is one of the crucial issues in photophysical and photochemical
process of any muti-chromophoric molecular systems, such as energy harvester and …

Synthesis of highly functionalized C 60 fullerene derivatives and their applications in material and life sciences

W Yan, SM Seifermann, P Pierrat… - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly functionalized fullerenes can be efficiently constructed by various techniques.
However, the challenge is to synthesize highly symmetrical fullerenes. Recently, a number …

Quantum dots for luminescent solar concentrators

F Purcell-Milton, YK Gun'ko - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a great need for solar cell based energy resources due to the rapid growth in price
of fossil fuels and the great danger of increasing greenhouse effect caused by carbon …

An artificial light-harvesting array constructed from multiple bodipy dyes

R Ziessel, G Ulrich, A Haefele… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
An artificial light-harvesting array, comprising 21 discrete chromophores arranged in a
rational manner, has been synthesized and characterized fully. The design strategy follows …

Styryl Bodipy-C60 Dyads as Efficient Heavy-Atom-Free Organic Triplet Photosensitizers

L Huang, X Yu, W Wu, J Zhao - Organic letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
C60-styryl Bodipy dyads that show strong absorption of visible light (ε= 64 600 M–1 cm–1 at
657 nm) and a long-lived triplet excited state (τT= 123.2 μs) are prepared. The dyads were …

Protein‐Framed Multi‐Porphyrin Micelles for a Hybrid Natural–Artificial Light‐Harvesting Nanosystem

Y Liu, J **, H Deng, K Li, Y Zheng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A micelle‐like hybrid natural–artificial light‐harvesting nanosystem was prepared through
protein‐framed electrostatic self‐assembly of phycocyanin and a four‐armed porphyrin star …

Self-assembled nanoscale DNA–porphyrin complex for artificial light harvesting

JG Woller, JK Hannestad… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Mimicking green plants' and bacteria's extraordinary ability to absorb a vast number of
photons and harness their energy is a longstanding goal in artificial photosynthesis …