Carbon nanodot-based heterostructures for improving the charge separation and the photocurrent generation

被引:22
作者
Bettini, Simona [1 ,2 ]
Sawalha, Shadi [1 ,3 ]
Carbone, Luigi [4 ]
Giancane, Gabriele [2 ,5 ]
Prato, Maurizio [6 ,7 ,8 ]
Valli, Ludovico [2 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Salento, Dept Innovat Engn, Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[2] INSTM, Consorzio Interuniv Nazl Sci & Tecnol Mat, Via G Giusti 9, I-50121 Florence, Italy
[3] An Najah Natl Univ, Chem Engn Dept, Nablus, Palestine
[4] Univ Salento, CNR NANOTEC, Inst Nanotechnol, Campus Ecotekne,Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[5] Univ Salento, Dept Cultural Heritage, Via D Birago 48, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[6] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Sci Chim & Farmaceut, INSTM UdR Trieste, Ctr Excellence Nanostruct Mat CENMAT, Piazzale Europa 1, Trieste, Italy
[7] CIC BiomaGUNE, Carbon Nanobiotechnol Lab, Paseo Miramon 182, San Sebastian, Spain
[8] Ikerbasque, Basque Fdn Sci, Bilbao 48013, Spain
[9] Univ Salento, Dept Biol & Environm Sci & Technol, Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
关键词
UP-CONVERSION FLUORESCENCE; GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS; ONE-STEP SYNTHESIS; SOLID-STATE; PORPHYRIN; ENERGY; FILMS; POLYMER; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES;
D O I
10.1039/c9nr00951e
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
The possibility to employ carbon nanodots (CNDs) in solar devices was exploited by combining them with a fulleropyrrolidine derivative (FP2). The interaction between the two species was promoted by the presence of opposite electrostatic charges on CNDs (negatively charged) and FP2 (positively charged). The supramolecular dyad CNDs/FP2 generation was induced at the air/water interface of a Langmuir trough: water soluble CNDs were dissolved in the subphase and FP2 chloroform solution was spread on the subphase; the electrostatic interaction promoted the formation of the supramolecular adduct FP2/CNDs, which was then transferred onto solid substrates. Photo-induced charge transfer was promoted in the FP2/CNDs dyad and we demonstrated that the presence of CNDs increased the short-circuit current density, under light illumination, of a porphyrin-FP2/CNDs thin film by about 300% when compared with a more traditional porphyrin-FP2 solar device.
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页码:7414 / 7423
页数:10
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