Multi-component arrays for interfacial electronic processes on the surface of nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors
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Published:09 Oct 2009
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SPR: SPR - Photochemistry
A. Kopecky and E. Galoppini, in Photochemistry, ed. A. Albini, 2009, vol. 37 pp. 362-392.
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The growing interest in the sensitization of nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors for the development of dye sensitized solar cells and photocatalytic systems has led to the development of multi-component dyes, able to perform well-defined, stepwise electronic processes on the semiconductor surface. Important applications include the development of DSSCs with improved efficiencies and the control of intermolecular and interfacial electronic processes at the dye/semiconductor interface. This review summarizes the progress in this area through the description of model dyes prepared from polymetallic complexes and organic molecules, and ends with a perspective on light harvesting arrays.