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Donor-Acceptor Artificial Photosynthetic Systems: Ultrafast Energy and Electron Transfer

Mother nature has laid out a beautiful blueprint to capture sunlight and convert to usable form of energy. Inspired by nature, donor-acceptor systems are predominantly studied for their light harvesting applications. This dissertation explores new donor-acceptor systems by studying their photochemical properties useful in building artificial photosynthetic systems. The systems studied are divided into phthalocyanine-porphyrin-fullerene-based, perylenediimide-based, and aluminum porphyrin-based donor-acceptor systems. Further effect of solvents in determining the energy or electron transfer was studied in chapter 6. Such complex photosynthetic analogues are designed and characterized using UV-vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, differential pulse voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry. Using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, the excited state properties are explored. The information obtained from the current study is critical in getting one step closer to building affordable and sustainable solar energy harvesting devices which could easily unravel the current energy demands.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1873544
Date12 1900
CreatorsSeetharaman, Sairaman
ContributorsD'Souza, Francis, Omary, Mohammad, Acree, William E. (William Eugene), Slaughter, LeGrande M., Sherman, Benjamin
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatxviii, 240 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Seetharaman, Sairaman, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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