Superior grafting and state-of-the-art interfacial electron transfer rates for newly designed geminal dicarboxylate bound ruthenium(II)- and osmium(II)-polypyridyl dyes on TiO2 nanosurface

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3864-3877

  Banerjee, Tanmay ^a   Biswas, Abul Kalam ^b,d   Reddy G, Upendar ^b,d   Sahu, Tuhin Subhra ^b   Das, Amitava ^a   Ganguly, Bishwajit ^b,d   Ghosh, Hirendra Nath ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL SALT AND MARINE CHEMICALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^d ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; INTERFACIAL DYNAMICS; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER RATE; PHOTOCHEMICAL STUDIES; SOLAR APPLICATIONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

CARBOXYLATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); OSMIUM; WATER ABSORPTION;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84896858845     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4077917     Document Type: Article

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