ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements

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Vega, Nadia Celeste; Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo; Tirado, Monica Cecilia; Katz, Néstor Eduardo; Comedi, David Mario
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2018
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Dye-sensitized ZnO nanowire (NW) electrodes were fabricated using Ru polypyridyl complexes that use nitrile instead of carboxylic group as anchoring unit to the NW surfaces. The complexes formula is [Ru(bpy)3−x(Mebpy-CN)x]2+ (x = 1−3, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, Mebpy-CN = 4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine-4'-carbonitrile). The ZnO NWs were grown by a vapor transport method on insulating SiO2/Si substrates. The sensitized ZnO NW electrodes were studied by electron microscopy, Raman and PL spectroscopies, and spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements. The Raman spectra confirm that the complexes were effectively anchored to the ZnO NWs through one of the pendant nitrile groups of the bipyridyl ligands. The nanostructured morphology of the NW electrodes was maintained so that their light trapping characteristics were preserved. The Ru complexes were found to be excellent sensitizers of the ZnO NWs, improving by orders of magnitude their photocurrent in the visible region. The Fe-based complex of formula [Fe(Mebpy-CN)3](PF6)2 was also tested; however it did not show any sensitizing effect. An order of magnitude shortening of the persistent photocurrent relaxation times (after the illumination is interrupted) was found to occur upon successful sensitization of the ZnO NWs with the Ru complexes. This effect is interpreted in terms of hole traps at ~1 eV above the ZnO valence band edge, which are lowered by ~50–60 meV in the soaked samples due to screening of the trap centers provided by the extra photoexcited charge carriers transferred from the sensitizing complex to the NWs.
Fil: Vega, Nadia Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina
Fil: Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina
Fil: Tirado, Monica Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; Argentina
Fil: Katz, Néstor Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina
Fil: Comedi, David Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; Argentina
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ZnO NANOWIRE
Ru POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES
CHARGE-TRANSFER
PHOTOCURRENT
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spelling ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurementsVega, Nadia CelesteMecchia Ortiz, Juan HugoTirado, Monica CeciliaKatz, Néstor EduardoComedi, David MarioZnO NANOWIRERu POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXESCHARGE-TRANSFERPHOTOCURRENThttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.10https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2Dye-sensitized ZnO nanowire (NW) electrodes were fabricated using Ru polypyridyl complexes that use nitrile instead of carboxylic group as anchoring unit to the NW surfaces. The complexes formula is [Ru(bpy)3−x(Mebpy-CN)x]2+ (x = 1−3, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, Mebpy-CN = 4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine-4'-carbonitrile). The ZnO NWs were grown by a vapor transport method on insulating SiO2/Si substrates. The sensitized ZnO NW electrodes were studied by electron microscopy, Raman and PL spectroscopies, and spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements. The Raman spectra confirm that the complexes were effectively anchored to the ZnO NWs through one of the pendant nitrile groups of the bipyridyl ligands. The nanostructured morphology of the NW electrodes was maintained so that their light trapping characteristics were preserved. The Ru complexes were found to be excellent sensitizers of the ZnO NWs, improving by orders of magnitude their photocurrent in the visible region. The Fe-based complex of formula [Fe(Mebpy-CN)3](PF6)2 was also tested; however it did not show any sensitizing effect. An order of magnitude shortening of the persistent photocurrent relaxation times (after the illumination is interrupted) was found to occur upon successful sensitization of the ZnO NWs with the Ru complexes. This effect is interpreted in terms of hole traps at ~1 eV above the ZnO valence band edge, which are lowered by ~50–60 meV in the soaked samples due to screening of the trap centers provided by the extra photoexcited charge carriers transferred from the sensitizing complex to the NWs.Fil: Vega, Nadia Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; ArgentinaFil: Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; ArgentinaFil: Tirado, Monica Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; ArgentinaFil: Katz, Néstor Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; ArgentinaFil: Comedi, David Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; ArgentinaIOP Publishing2018-07-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/101919Vega, Nadia Celeste; Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo; Tirado, Monica Cecilia; Katz, Néstor Eduardo; Comedi, David Mario; ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements; IOP Publishing; Materials Research Express; 5; 7; 11-7-2018; 75020-750202053-1591CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/aacfa5info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1088/2053-1591/aacfa5info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-11-26T08:58:37Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/101919instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-11-26 08:58:37.636CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
title ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
spellingShingle ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
Vega, Nadia Celeste
ZnO NANOWIRE
Ru POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES
CHARGE-TRANSFER
PHOTOCURRENT
title_short ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
title_full ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
title_fullStr ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
title_full_unstemmed ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
title_sort ZnO nanowire sensitization with Ru polypyridyl complexes: charge-transfer probed by spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vega, Nadia Celeste
Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo
Tirado, Monica Cecilia
Katz, Néstor Eduardo
Comedi, David Mario
author Vega, Nadia Celeste
author_facet Vega, Nadia Celeste
Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo
Tirado, Monica Cecilia
Katz, Néstor Eduardo
Comedi, David Mario
author_role author
author2 Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo
Tirado, Monica Cecilia
Katz, Néstor Eduardo
Comedi, David Mario
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ZnO NANOWIRE
Ru POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES
CHARGE-TRANSFER
PHOTOCURRENT
topic ZnO NANOWIRE
Ru POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES
CHARGE-TRANSFER
PHOTOCURRENT
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.10
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Dye-sensitized ZnO nanowire (NW) electrodes were fabricated using Ru polypyridyl complexes that use nitrile instead of carboxylic group as anchoring unit to the NW surfaces. The complexes formula is [Ru(bpy)3−x(Mebpy-CN)x]2+ (x = 1−3, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, Mebpy-CN = 4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine-4'-carbonitrile). The ZnO NWs were grown by a vapor transport method on insulating SiO2/Si substrates. The sensitized ZnO NW electrodes were studied by electron microscopy, Raman and PL spectroscopies, and spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements. The Raman spectra confirm that the complexes were effectively anchored to the ZnO NWs through one of the pendant nitrile groups of the bipyridyl ligands. The nanostructured morphology of the NW electrodes was maintained so that their light trapping characteristics were preserved. The Ru complexes were found to be excellent sensitizers of the ZnO NWs, improving by orders of magnitude their photocurrent in the visible region. The Fe-based complex of formula [Fe(Mebpy-CN)3](PF6)2 was also tested; however it did not show any sensitizing effect. An order of magnitude shortening of the persistent photocurrent relaxation times (after the illumination is interrupted) was found to occur upon successful sensitization of the ZnO NWs with the Ru complexes. This effect is interpreted in terms of hole traps at ~1 eV above the ZnO valence band edge, which are lowered by ~50–60 meV in the soaked samples due to screening of the trap centers provided by the extra photoexcited charge carriers transferred from the sensitizing complex to the NWs.
Fil: Vega, Nadia Celeste. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina
Fil: Mecchia Ortiz, Juan Hugo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina
Fil: Tirado, Monica Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; Argentina
Fil: Katz, Néstor Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Química del Noroeste. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia. Instituto de Química del Noroeste; Argentina
Fil: Comedi, David Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán. Instituto de Física del Noroeste Argentino, INFINOA. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología, Argentina; Argentina; Argentina
description Dye-sensitized ZnO nanowire (NW) electrodes were fabricated using Ru polypyridyl complexes that use nitrile instead of carboxylic group as anchoring unit to the NW surfaces. The complexes formula is [Ru(bpy)3−x(Mebpy-CN)x]2+ (x = 1−3, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, Mebpy-CN = 4-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine-4'-carbonitrile). The ZnO NWs were grown by a vapor transport method on insulating SiO2/Si substrates. The sensitized ZnO NW electrodes were studied by electron microscopy, Raman and PL spectroscopies, and spectral and relaxation photocurrent measurements. The Raman spectra confirm that the complexes were effectively anchored to the ZnO NWs through one of the pendant nitrile groups of the bipyridyl ligands. The nanostructured morphology of the NW electrodes was maintained so that their light trapping characteristics were preserved. The Ru complexes were found to be excellent sensitizers of the ZnO NWs, improving by orders of magnitude their photocurrent in the visible region. The Fe-based complex of formula [Fe(Mebpy-CN)3](PF6)2 was also tested; however it did not show any sensitizing effect. An order of magnitude shortening of the persistent photocurrent relaxation times (after the illumination is interrupted) was found to occur upon successful sensitization of the ZnO NWs with the Ru complexes. This effect is interpreted in terms of hole traps at ~1 eV above the ZnO valence band edge, which are lowered by ~50–60 meV in the soaked samples due to screening of the trap centers provided by the extra photoexcited charge carriers transferred from the sensitizing complex to the NWs.
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