Photocatalytic water splitting—the untamed dream: a review of recent advances

T Jafari, E Moharreri, AS Amin, R Miao, W Song… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Photocatalytic water splitting using sunlight is a promising technology capable of providing
high energy yield without pollutant byproducts. Herein, we review various aspects of this …

Semiconducting π-conjugated systems in field-effect transistors: a material odyssey of organic electronics

C Wang, H Dong, W Hu, Y Liu, D Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of highly conducting polyacetylene by Shirakawa, MacDiarmid, and
Heeger1 in 1977, π-conjugated systems have attracted much attention as futuristic materials …

Computation-based regulation of excitonic effects in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalysis

Y Qian, Y Han, X Zhang, G Yang, G Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The strong excitonic effects widely exist in polymer-semiconductors and the large exciton
binding energy (E b) seriously limits their photocatalysis. Herein, density functional theory …

In-depth insight into the mechanism on photocatalytic synergistic removal of antibiotics and Cr (Ⅵ): The decisive effect of antibiotic molecular structure

Q Zhang, J Chen, X Gao, H Che, P Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotics and heavy metal contaminants often coexist in wastewater but their simultaneous/
synergistic removal remains a great challenge. Herein, a synergistic effect on the …

How to Achieve Excellent Luminescence Properties of Cr Ion‐Doped Near‐Infrared Phosphors

G Wei, P Li, R Li, Y Wang, S He, J Li… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal chromium (Cr) ion‐doped inorganic materials exhibit distinct tunable
broadband near‐infrared luminescence, and they have promising applications including …

Selective triplet exciton formation in a single molecule

K Kimura, K Miwa, H Imada, M Imai-Imada… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The formation of excitons in organic molecules by charge injection is an essential process in
organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs),,,,,–. According to a simple model based on spin …

Synthesis, characterization, and DFT study of linear and non-linear optical properties of some novel thieno [2, 3-b] thiophene azo dye derivatives

EK Shokr, MS Kamel, H Abdel-Ghany… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Some novel thieno [2, 3-b] thiophene-2, 5-dicarbonitrile derivatives namely; 3, 4-bis
(2-hydroxynaphthalen-1-yl) diazenyl) thieno [2, 3-b] thiophene-2, 5-dicarbonitrile, 3, 4-bis (4 …

How accurate are energies of HOMO and LUMO levels in small-molecule organic semiconductors determined from cyclic voltammetry or optical spectroscopy?

J Sworakowski - Synthetic Metals, 2018 - Elsevier
Examined are relations between the energies of the transport gaps (ie, the gaps determined
by UPS/IPES measurements and taken for 'true'HOMO-LUMO gaps), and the …

Dielectric screening meets optimally tuned density functionals

L Kronik, S Kümmel - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A short overview of recent attempts at merging two independently developed methods is
presented. These are the optimal tuning of a range‐separated hybrid (OT‐RSH) functional …

Photovoltaic efficiency limits and material disorder

PK Nayak, G Garcia-Belmonte, A Kahn… - Energy & …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar cells based on crystalline semiconductors such as Si and GaAs provide nowadays the
highest performance, but photovoltaic (PV) cells based on less pure materials, such as poly …