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Harvesting Solar Energy by Means of Charge-Separating Nanocrystals and Their Solids
Published on: August 23, 2012
Mechanochemistry toward Organic "Salt" via Integer-Charge-Transfer Cocrystal Strategy for Rapid, Efficient, and
Shun-Li Chen1, Meng-Meng Zhang1, Jiecheng Chen1
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Shantou, 515063, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Invited for this month's cover is the group of Shun-Li Chen and Ming-De Li at the Shantou University. The image shows that one electron can be transferred easily from donor to acceptor unit to obtain integer-charge-transfer cocrystals for realizing high-efficient solar-harvesting and photothermal conversion. The Research Article itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202300644.
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