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Title: Photoactive devices including porphyrinoids with coordinating additives

Abstract

Coordinating additives are included in porphyrinoid-based materials to promote intermolecular organization and improve one or more photoelectric characteristics of the materials. The coordinating additives are selected from fullerene compounds and organic compounds having free electron pairs. Combinations of different coordinating additives can be used to tailor the characteristic properties of such porphyrinoid-based materials, including porphyrin oligomers. Bidentate ligands are one type of coordinating additive that can form coordination bonds with a central metal ion of two different porphyrinoid compounds to promote porphyrinoid alignment and/or pi-stacking. The coordinating additives can shift the absorption spectrum of a photoactive material toward higher wavelengths, increase the external quantum efficiency of the material, or both.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1179224
Patent Number(s):
9029837
Application Number:
13/271,993
Assignee:
The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
DOE Contract Number:  
SC000103
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2011 Oct 12
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Forrest, Stephen R, Zimmerman, Jeramy, Yu, Eric K, Thompson, Mark E, Trinh, Cong, Whited, Matthew, and Diev, Vlacheslav. Photoactive devices including porphyrinoids with coordinating additives. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Forrest, Stephen R, Zimmerman, Jeramy, Yu, Eric K, Thompson, Mark E, Trinh, Cong, Whited, Matthew, & Diev, Vlacheslav. Photoactive devices including porphyrinoids with coordinating additives. United States.
Forrest, Stephen R, Zimmerman, Jeramy, Yu, Eric K, Thompson, Mark E, Trinh, Cong, Whited, Matthew, and Diev, Vlacheslav. Tue . "Photoactive devices including porphyrinoids with coordinating additives". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1179224.
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abstractNote = {Coordinating additives are included in porphyrinoid-based materials to promote intermolecular organization and improve one or more photoelectric characteristics of the materials. The coordinating additives are selected from fullerene compounds and organic compounds having free electron pairs. Combinations of different coordinating additives can be used to tailor the characteristic properties of such porphyrinoid-based materials, including porphyrin oligomers. Bidentate ligands are one type of coordinating additive that can form coordination bonds with a central metal ion of two different porphyrinoid compounds to promote porphyrinoid alignment and/or pi-stacking. The coordinating additives can shift the absorption spectrum of a photoactive material toward higher wavelengths, increase the external quantum efficiency of the material, or both.},
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