Dye-sensitized solar cells strike back

AB Muñoz-García, I Benesperi, G Boschloo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are celebrating their 30th birthday and they are attracting
a wealth of research efforts aimed at unleashing their full potential. In recent years, DSCs …

Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Ultrathin C3N4 nanosheets-based oxidase-like 2D fluorescence nanozyme for dual-mode detection of organophosphorus pesticides

Y Shen, X Gao, H Chen, Y Wei, H Yang, Y Gu - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Engineering efficient dual-mode portable sensor with built-in cross reference correction is of
great significance for onsite reliable and precise detection of organophosphorus pesticides …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasmall Fe-doped carbon dots nanozymes for photoenhanced antibacterial therapy and wound healing

Y Liu, B Xu, M Lu, S Li, J Guo, F Chen, X Xiong, Z Yin… - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogenic bacteria pose a devastating threat to public health. However, because of the
growing bacterial antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative …

Photoactive complexes with earth-abundant metals

OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this invited Perspective, recent developments and possible future directions of research
on photoactive coordination compounds made from nonprecious transition metal elements …

Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex

J Steube, A Kruse, OS Bokareva, T Reuter… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Although iron is a dream candidate to substitute noble metals in photoactive complexes,
realization of emissive and photoactive iron compounds is demanding due to the fast …

Engineering efficient artificial nanozyme based on chitosan grafted Fe-doped-carbon dots for bacteria biofilm eradication

T Pan, H Chen, X Gao, Z Wu, Y Ye, Y Shen - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bacterial biofilms have evoked worldwide attention owing to their serious threats to public
health, but how to effectively eliminate bacterial biofilms still remains great challenges. Here …

Is iron the new ruthenium?

OS Wenger - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ruthenium complexes with polypyridine ligands are very popular choices for applications in
photophysics and photochemistry, for example, in lighting, sensing, solar cells, and …

Photoactive iron complexes: more sustainable, but still a challenge

P Dierks, Y Vukadinovic, M Bauer - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
On transition metals such as iron rests lots of hope to replace precious metal catalysts in the
field of photochemistry for a more sustainable future. Indeed, significant progress has been …

[HTML][HTML] Photofunctionality of iron (III) N-heterocyclic carbenes and related d5 transition metal complexes

P Chábera, L Lindh, NW Rosemann, O Prakash… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite a few reports of photoluminescent and strongly photo-oxidizing transition metal
complexes with ad 5 electronic configuration, the photophysics and photochemistry of this …