Ion-Gated Synthetic Photosystems

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• 作者：Naomi Sakai ; Pierre Charbonnaz ; Sandra Ward ; Stefan Matile
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：April 16, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：136
• 期：15
• 页码：5575-5578
• 全文大小：278K
• 年卷期：v.136,no.15(April 16, 2014)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Herein, molecular strings of ions built along charge-transporting channels are shown to dramatically increase photocurrents and enable charge transport over long distances, thus confirming the existence and significance of ion-gated photosystems. For their synthesis, ordered and oriented stacks of naphthalenediimides were grown on indium tin oxide by ring-opening disulfide-exchange polymerization. To these charge-transporting channels, coaxial strings of anions or cations鈥攆ixed, mobile, complete, partial, pure, or mixed鈥攚ere added by orthogonal hydrazone exchange. The presence of partially protonated carboxylates was found to most significantly increase activity, implying that they both attract holes and repel electrons, that is, facilitate photoinduced charge separation and hinder charge recombination at the same time. As a result of this quite remarkable situation, photocurrents increased rather than decreased with increasing charge stabilization on their 鈥渟tepping stones.鈥?The presence of mobile anions facilitated long-distance charge transport through thick films. Turned off by inhibited anion mobility, that is, proton hopping, hole/proton antiport is identified to account for long-distance charge transport in ion-gated photosystems.