- Carbazole linked phenylquinoline-based fullerene derivatives as acceptors for bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells: Effect of interfacial contacts on device performance
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To understand the effect of interfacial contact between the hole transporting layer (HTL) and fullerene derivatives in the active layer of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs), carbazole (Cz) linked phenylquinoline (PhQ)-based fullerene derivatives, PhQHCz-C61BM and PhQEOCz-C61BM, have been successfully synthesized. They are used as acceptors with a poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) donor in the active layer, and PEDOT:PSS and MoO3 were used as the HTL. Both the derivatives are highly soluble in common organic solvents and possess high thermal stability. BHJ PSCs are fabricated with configurations of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PhQHCz-C 61BM/LiF/Al, ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PhQEOCz-C61BM/LiF/Al, and ITO/MoO3/P3HT:PhQHCz-C61BM/LiF/Al, ITO/MoO 3/P3HT:PhQEOCz-C61BM/LiF/Al, and the device characteristics were measured under AM1.5G (100 mW cm-2). Both derivatives exhibited much lower power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of ~0.1% when PEDOT:PSS was employed as the HTL. In contrast, the PCE increases to ~2.2% upon replacing PEDOT:PSS with MoO3 as the HTL. This is due to the fact that protonation of the pyridyl nitrogen of the acceptor in the active layer by the -SO3H group of PEDOT:PSS in the HTL, establishes a charge injection barrier at the interfacial contact and leads to restricted charge collection at the electrodes. This was indirectly confirmed by protonation of pyridyl nitrogen in PhQHCz-C61BM by the -SO 3H group in p-toluenesulphonic acid.
- Sakthivel, Pachagounder,Kranthiraja, Kakaraparthi,Saravanan, Chinnusamy,Gunasekar, Kumarasamy,Kim, Hong Il,Shin, Won Suk,Jeong, Ji-Eun,Woo, Han Young,Jin, Sung-Ho
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- Functionalized Eu(III)-Based Nanoscale Metal-Organic Framework to Achieve Near-IR-Triggered and -Targeted Two-Photon Absorption Photodynamic Therapy
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The postsynthetic-modified nanoscale metal-organic framework (NMOF) probes selected as potential drug delivery platforms and photodynamic therapy agents to fulfill the effective and safe treatment of neoplastic diseases have attracted increasing attention recently. Herein, a Eu(III)-based NMOF probe elaborately postsynthetically modified with a β-diketonate two-photon-absorbing (TPA) ligand is rationally designed and further functionalized by assembling the photosensitizer molecule (methylene blue, MB) in the pores and a cyclic peptide targeting motif on the surface of the NMOF, which could achieve highly efficient near-infrared (NIR)-triggered and -targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT). On the basis of the luminescence resonance energy transfer process between the NMOF donor and the photosensitizer MB acceptor, the probe can achieve a high tissue-penetrable TPA-PDT effect. Thus, the NMOFs in this study play the role of not only the nanocontainer for the photosensitizer but also the energy-transfer donor. Studies in vitro show enhanced cellular uptake and satisfactory PDT effectiveness toward cancer cells compared to the free photosensitizer MB. It is highly expected that this study contributes to the development of smart luminescent diagnostic and therapeutic probes.
- Jia, Jianguo,Zhang, Yang,Zheng, Min,Shan, Changfu,Yan, Huicheng,Wu, Wenyu,Gao, Xuan,Cheng, Bo,Liu, Weisheng,Tang, Yu
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p. 300 - 310
(2018/01/10)
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- Efficient two-photon-sensitized luminescence of a novel europium(iii) β-diketonate complex and application in biological imaging
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A novel europium(iii) β-diketonate complex exhibiting bright two-photon-sensitized luminescence is synthesized and applied as a two-photon-sensitized luminescent probe to stain DNA in live cells.
- Hu, Zhang-Jun,Tian, Xiao-He,Zhao, Xiang-Hua,Wang, Peng,Zhang, Qiong,Sun, Ping-Ping,Wu, Jie-Ying,Yang, Jia-Xiang,Tian, Yu-Peng
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 12467 - 12469
(2012/02/02)
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