Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

Iodide‐Induced Fragmentation of Polymerized Hydrophilic Carbon Nitride for High‐Performance Quasi‐Homogeneous Photocatalytic H2O2 Production

H Che, X Gao, J Chen, J Hou, Y Ao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) as a class of two‐electron oxygen reduction reaction (2 e−
ORR) photocatalyst has attracted much attention for H2O2 production. However, the low …

DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

Direct Attack and Indirect Transfer Mechanisms Dominated by Reactive Oxygen Species for Photocatalytic H2O2 Production on gC3N4 Possessing Nitrogen …

J Luo, Y Liu, C Fan, L Tang, S Yang, M Liu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is widely accepted that photogenerated holes are the only driving force for oxidizing an
electron donor to form H+ during photocatalytic H2O2 production (PHP). Here, we use …

Yellow‐emissive carbon dots with high solid‐state photoluminescence

J Guo, Y Lu, AQ **e, G Li, ZB Liang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dots (CDs) present an enticing prospect for a variety of optical applications relying
on their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY). Herein, the synthesis, optical …

TD‐DFT benchmarks: a review

AD Laurent, D Jacquemin - International Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD‐DFT) has become the most widely‐used
theoretical approach to simulate the optical properties of both organic and inorganic …

Rational design of donor-acceptor conjugated polymers with high performance on peroxydisulfate activation for pollutants degradation

H Che, P Wang, J Chen, X Gao, B Liu, Y Ao - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) has great potential for peroxydisulfate (PDS) activation but
still challenge due to the sluggish electron-hole pair dissociation and tardy charge transfer …

Luminescence in crystalline organic materials: from molecules to molecular solids

J Gierschner, J Shi, B Milián‐Medina… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescent small, all‐organic molecules are of tremendous interest in materials and life
science applications. Nevertheless, targeted design requires a basic understanding of the …

Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Theory and applications for modeling photophysics in extended molecular materials

TR Nelson, AJ White, JA Bjorgaard, AE Sifain… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …