Toward Metal-Organic Framework-Based Solar Cells: Enhancing Directional Exciton Transport by Collapsing Three-Dimensional Film Structures

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 30863-30870

  Goswami, Subhadip ^a   Ma, Lin ^a   Martinson, Alex B F ^b   Wasielewski, Michael R ^a   Farha, Omar K ^a,c   Hupp, Joseph T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

energy transfer; fluorescence quencher; layer by layer; metal organic framework; postsynthetic modification

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PORPHYRINS; SCAFFOLDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS; DIPOLE-DIPOLE COUPLINGS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHERS; LAYER BY LAYER; METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK; METALORGANIC FRAMEWORKS (MOFS); POSTSYNTHETIC MODIFICATION; TIME-RESOLVED EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84996931927     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b08552     Document Type: Article

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