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Adsorption Thermodynamic and Kinetic Mechanism of Substrate-Induced Molecular Geometry Orientation
Jing Shi1,2, Weiqing Liu1,2, Shuqing Yang1,2
1Jiangxi Engineering Laboratory for Optoelectronics Testing Technology, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang330063, P. R. China.
Abstract:
N719 dye (cis-[Ru(4-carboxy-4'-carboxylate-2,2'-bipyridine)2(NCS)2]) contains two carboxylic acid/carboxylate groups and two isothiocyanato (NCS) ligands and exhibit different spatial adsorption orientations during adsorption on different substrate surfaces. However, the effect of spatially adsorption orientations on the adsorption process has been rarely reported. This paper presents a detailed study of the adsorption kinetics and thermodynamics of N719 molecules based on a quartz crystal microbalance under variable temperature conditions using TiO2 or Au substrate surfaces to induce changes in the geometrical orientation molecules. This work also reveals the adsorption properties of carboxylate groups and NCS ligands acting as anchoring groups. Research results have shown that the surface N719 molecular density of the TiO2 substrate is higher than that of the Au substrate. Adsorption kinetics have shown that the adsorption rate of N719 molecules on the Au substrate surface with NCS ligands as anchor groups is slightly higher than that of carboxylate as the anchor groups on the TiO2 substrate surface, and in the case of the former adsorption mode, the desorption is more pronounced. Under two different spatial orientation adsorption modes, both exhibit physical adsorption. The thermodynamics of molecular adsorption with different spatial orientations show that all adsorption processes are spontaneous and endothermic. This work is beneficial for understanding the mechanism of adsorption of dye molecules, dye molecule synthesis method, ligand selection, and improvement of device efficiency.
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