Lateral self-sorting on surfaces: a practical approach to double-channel photosystems

Autor: Marco Lista, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile, Jetsuda Areephong
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 133, No 39 (2011) pp. 15228-15231
ISSN: 1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/ja204020p
Popis: We report that self-sorting during self-organizing surface-initiated copolymerization (co-SOSIP) provides facile access to oriented multicomponent architectures. Alternate lateral and uniform axial self-sorting into formal supramolecular n/p-heterojunction photosystems is found to generate up to 40 times more photocurrent. More or less topological matching gives rise to alternate axial self-sorting into inactive charge-transfer complexes or uniform lateral sorting into the less active macrodomains, respectively. Experimental support for self-repair during co-SOSIP is reported. Initiators on the surface are shown to serve as templates for the self-sorting into multichannel architectures of freely variable composition.
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