Protonated carboxyl anchor for stable adsorption of Ru N749 dye (black dye) on a TiO 2 anatase (101) surface

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 472-477

  Sodeyama, Keitaro ^a,b   Sumita, Masato ^a   ORourke, Conn ^a,c,d   Terranova, Umberto ^a,c,d   Islam, Ashraful ^a,b   Han, Liyuan ^a,b   Bowler, David R ^a,c,d   Tateyama, Yoshitaka ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK DYE; CARBOXYL GROUPS; DYE STRUCTURE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRONIC PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION; PROTONATED; STABLE ADSORPTION; SUPER CELL; SURFACE OXYGEN; SURFACE SYSTEMS; TIO; UV-VISIBLE SPECTRA;

ADSORPTION; ANCHORS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; HYDROGEN BONDS; PROTONS; RUTHENIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PROTONATION;

EID: 84857530399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201583n     Document Type: Article

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