This paper reports the use of Au nanoparticles (NPs) as electron transfer bridge layers to improve the photocurrent of viologen/Ru complex-based photoelectrochemical cells. The Ru complex/ viologen/Au NPs on electrodes were prepared using self-assembled monolayers. The cell system showed an excellent photocurrent of 25 nA/cm2 under the 1.5 air mass condition (I = 100 mW/cm2), which is five times greater than Au NPs due to the reduced recombination reaction.
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Department of Hepatology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), 90050-170 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil.
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Shibaura Institute of Technology: Shibaura Kogyo Daigaku, Applied Chemistry, Fukasaku 307, Minuma-ku, 337-8570, Saitama, JAPAN.
A new Donor-Acceptor type pyrazinacene derivative (1) featuring strong ICT was synthesized by linking electron-donating triphenylamine (TPA) and electron-accepting CN groups via a pyrazinacene core. The compound exhibits a dramatic color change from greenish blue to red-violet upon selective recognition of naphthalene (3) to form a 1:1 co-crystal (1•3). This color change is induced by intermolecular CT between pyrazinacene and naphthalene's aromatic moieties, driven by π-hole···π interactions.
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Key Laboratory of Basic and Application Research of Beiyao (Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine), Ministry of Education, 24 Heping Road, Harbin 150040, China.
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School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
: The functional traits of twigs and leaves are closely related to the ability of plants to cope with heterogeneous environments. The analysis of the characteristics of twigs and leaves and leaf thermal dissipation in riparian plants is of great significance for exploring the light energy allocation and ecological adaptation strategies of plant leaves in heterogeneous habitats. However, there are few studies on the correlation between the twig-leaf characteristics of riparian plants and their heat dissipation in light heterogeneous environments.
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Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada 22860, BC, Mexico.
is the parasite responsible for Chagas disease, which has a significant amount of genetic diversification among the species complex. Many efforts are routinely made to characterize the genetic lineages of circulating in a particular geographic area. However, the genetic loci used to typify the genetic lineages of have not been consistent between studies.
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