title: Assembling Supramolecular Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells for Water Splitting.
abstract: The method used to assemble dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical (DS-PEC) devices plays a vital role in determining its photoactivity and stability. We report a simple and effective method to assemble supramolecular DS-PECs introducing PMMA as support material and a catalyst modified with long carbon chains as photoanodes. The long carbon chains in combination with PMMA allow to better immobilize the catalyst. DS-PECs obtained by this simple method have display excellent photoactivities and stabilities. A photocurrent density of 1.1 mA cm(-2) and a maximum IPCE of 9.5 % have been obtained with a 0.2 V vs NHE external bias.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, PR China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, PR China. dr.gaoyan@dlut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, PR China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, PR China.
authors.forename: Linlin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, 116024, PR China. lichengs@kth.se.|Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden. lichengs@kth.se.
authors.forename: Licheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D004566:Electrodes; D055668:Photochemical Processes; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000737:chemistry; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D014867:Water; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate
keywords: electrochemistry; molecular devices; photochemistry; water oxidation; water splitting