Organometallic photovoltaic

The very recent breakthrough in this area focused on the fabrication of highly efficient organometallic photovoltaic cells based on 76.105 The bulk... 

Wong WY, Ho CL (2010) Organometallic photovoltaics a new and versatile approach for harvesting solar energy using conjugated polymetallaynes. Acc Chem Res 43 1246-1256... 

The organic and organometallic complexes of transition metals are especially important in catalysis and photovoltaics, on the basis of their redox and electron-mediating properties. Whilst most complex compounds can be studied in (organic) solution-phase experiments, their solid-state electrochemistry (often in an aqueous electrolyte solution environment) is in general also easily accessible by attaching microcrystalline samples to the surface of electrodes. Quite often, the voltammetric characteristics of a complex in the solid state will differ remarkably from its characteristics monitored in solution. Consequently, chemical, physical or mechanistic data are each accessible via the voltammetry of immobilized microparticles. 

P.-T. Wu, T. Bull, E S. Kim, C. K. Luscombe, S. A. Jenekhe, Organometallic Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer Semiconductors Tunable Optical, Electrochemical, Charge Transport, and Photovoltaic Properties. Macromolecules 2009,42, 671-681. 

ZHA 14] Zhang W., Jin X., Yu X. et al., Novel dye sensitizers of main chain polymeric metal complexes based on complexes of diaminomaleonitrile with Cd(II), Ni(II) synthesis, characterization, and photovoltaic performance for dye-sensitized solar cells . Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 749, pp. 26-33, 2014. 

On the other hand, much work has been devoted by Balch to the study of the electrochemical formation and properties of redox-active films formed from fuller-enes, or a fijUerene derivative, and selected hansition-metal complexes of Pd(ll), Pt(ll), Rh(ll) and lr(l) [29]. These organometallic films may find potential application as charge storage materials for batteries, photovoltaic devices and elecho-chemical sensors. 

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