Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are waveguides doped with luminescent centers that can spectrally and spatially concentrate sunlight. They can reduce the cost of photovoltaic energy production and are attractive prospects for photobioreactors and building-integrated applications. Reabsorption, caused by non-zero overlap between the absorption and emission spectra of the light-emitting ce...

Understanding the sources of energy loss in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is outstanding importance for increasing power conversion energy. Herein, we employ a full quantum mechanics approach to determine rates charge transfer processes at acceptor–donor interface prototypical BHJ blend. It shown that recombination singlet (CT) state acceptor/donor (A/D) very fast, being most effective ...

We describe a new approach to making luminophores that display long emission wavelengths, long decay times, and high quantum yields. These luminophores are covalently linked pairs with a long-lifetime resonance-energy-transfer donor and a long-wavelength acceptor. The donor was a ruthenium (Ru) metal-ligand complex. The acceptor was the Texas Red. The donor and acceptor were covalently linked b...

A series of donor-acceptor heteroleptic open sandwiches with formula CpM-M'Pyl (M = B, Al, Ga; M' = Li, Na; Cp = cyclopentadienyl; Pyl = pentadienyl) has been designed in silico using density functional theory. The most stable complexes are those containing boron as a donor atom. A molecular orbital analysis shows that the s character of the lone pair located at the group 13 element is mainly r...

Stereoelectronic effects is a bridge between structure and reactivity [1]. Anomeric effect plays an important role in the domain of stereoelectronic interaction and can be used for description of several unusual phenomena. Intramolecular negative hyperconjugation is also known as anomeric effect [2]. In anomeric effect, both donor (lone pairs) and acceptor groups (electronegative elements) coex...

Dopamine functionalized carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) that can act as efficient photoinduced electron donor-acceptor systems depending on the pH of the medium have been synthesized. In acidic media, dopamine on CNPs exists as hydroquinone and serves as an electron donor while under alkaline conditions the corresponding quinone form of dopamine serves as a strong electron acceptor. Application of ...

A fluorescence resonance energy transfer pair consisting of a colloidal quantum dot donor and multiple organic fluorophores as acceptors is reported and the photophysics of the system is characterized. Most nanoparticle-based biosensors reported so far use the detection of specific changes of the donor/acceptor distance under the influence of analyte binding. Our nanoparticle design on the othe...

We report the results of time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance (TREPR) studies of photoinduced charge separation in different supramolecular donor-acceptor systems dissolved in oriented liquid crystals (LC). Three systems are discussed: 1) covalently linked donor-spacer-acceptor systems (DsA); 2) donor-acceptor systems linked by hydrogen bonds; and 3) a zwitterionic system in which the ...

Electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes are characterized by charge-transfer (CT) processes between electron-rich and electron-poor counterparts, typically resulting in a new absorption band at higher wavelength. In this paper, we report series of novel 2,6-di(imino)pyridine ligands with different aromatic substituents their 1:2 (metal/ligand) zinc(II) which the formation CT species is promoted...

We present preliminary results showing electronic energy transfer (EET) between benzene and biacetyl and between naphthalene and anthracene in a supersonic jet expansion and in bichromophoric molecules in solution. Excitation of several vibronic levels of benzene (donor) in the presence of biacetyl (acceptor) shows quenching of benzene emission with simultaneous appearance of biacetyl fluoresce...