Chemical approaches to artificial photosynthesis: A molecular, dye-sensitized photoanode for O2 production prepared by layer-by-layer self-assembly

Wang, Degao; Farnum, Byron H.; Dares, Christopher J.; Meyer, Thomas J.

doi:10.1063/5.0007383

Title: Chemical approaches to artificial photosynthesis: A molecular, dye-sensitized photoanode for O₂ production prepared by layer-by-layer self-assembly

Journal Article · Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Chemical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0007383· OSTI ID:1801244

Wang, Degao ^[1]; Farnum, Byron H. ^[2]; Dares, Christopher J. ^[3];

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Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
Auburn Univ., AL (United States)
Florida International Univ. (FIU), Miami, FL (United States)

We describe here the preparation of a family of photoanodes for water oxidation that incorporate an electron acceptor–chromophore–catalyst in single molecular assemblies on nano-indium tin oxide (nanoITO) electrodes on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO). The assemblies were prepared by using a layer-by-layer, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), self-assembly approach. In the procedure, addition of an electron acceptor viologen derivative followed by a Ru^II(bpy) chromophore and a pyridyl derivative of the water oxidation catalyst [Ru(bda) (L)₂] (bda = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate)₂, were linked by ALD by addition of the bridge precursors TiO₂, ZrO₂, and Al₂O₃ as the bridging groups giving the assemblies, FTO|nanoITO|–MV²⁺–ALD MO₂–RuP2²⁺–ALD M'O₂–WOC. In a series of devices, the most efficient gave water oxidation with an incident photon to current efficiency of 2.2% at 440 nm. Transient nanosecond absorption measurements on the assemblies demonstrated that the slow step in the intra-assembly electron transfer is the electron transfer from the chromophore through the viologen bridge to the nanoITO electrode.

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Research Organization:: Florida International Univ. (FIU), Miami, FL (United States); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: NE0008539; SC0001011; ECCS-1542015

OSTI ID:: 1801244

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1634854

Journal Information:: Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 152, Issue 24; ISSN 0021-9606

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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