Novel Electron Donor Acceptor Nanocomposites

Chemistry of Nanocarbons

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 93-127

  Imahori, Hiroshi ^a,b   Guldi, Dirk M ^c   Fukuzumi, Shunichi ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge separation in large molecule based bulk heterojunction solar cells; CSCNTs destacking electron transfer reduction and cup shaped carbon dodecylation; Donor fullerene dyads for photoinduced electron transfer; Donor fullerene linked dyads long lived charge separated state formation; Donor fullerene linked multicomponent systems; Electron donor acceptor nanocomposites and their development; Noncovalent approaches preserving SWNT electronic and structural integrity; Novel electron donor acceptor nanocomposites; Self assembly of donor and acceptor molecules theme of supramolecular chemistry; Stacked cup carbon nanotubes (SCCNT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886213751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660188.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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