Synthesis, Structure and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Photosensitizers with Earth-Abundant Transition Metals
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Photochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular photo-chemistry; photo-isomerisation; energy and charge transfer; photo-sensitisers; ultrafast spectroscopy
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Interests: organic/organometallic synthesis; photophysics; photoactive systems; solar energy conversion
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Interests: molecular photochemistry; photoactive iron complexes; ligand design; X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy
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Interests: ligand design; coordination chemistry; photoactive metal-complexes; solar energy conversion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last 10 years, an intense research effort has been devoted to the development of photosensitizers based on Earth-abundant 3d metals, which may ultimately replace the traditional rare and expensive 4 and 5d transition metals for applications such as dye-sensitized solar cells and photoredox catalysis. Many new design principles have been proposed in recent years, leading to breakthrough results, including luminescent metal complexes with high photo-chemical activity. New chemical designs are validated by ultrafast spectroscopy in many different spectral domains from the infrared to X-ray, and advanced quantum chemical simulations rationalise the photophysical properties.
The present Special Issue aims at reviewing the most recent advances in the area including the intricate synthesis, quantum dynamics simulations and ultrafast spectroscopy. This Special Issue will not only be a comprehensive report of the state of the art, but will also highlight the most successful approaches and versatile lessons learned in order to foster further research and applications of Earth-abundant transition metal photosensitizers.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Haacke
Dr. Cristina Cebrián Ávila
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Dr. Philippe C. Gros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- earth-abundant transition metals
- photosensitizers
- coordination complexes
- excited state dynamics
- photocatalysis
