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Artificial photosynthesis for solar water-splitting by Tachibana, Yasuhiro, Vayssieres, Lionel, Durrant, James R.

“…Hydrogen generated from solar-driven water-splitting has the potential to be a clean, sustainable and abundant energy source. Inspired by natural…”
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Efficient Hole Trapping in Carbon Dot/Oxygen‐Modified Carbon Nitride Heterojunction Photocatalysts for Enhanced Methanol Production from CO2 under Neutral Conditions by Wang, Yiou, Godin, Robert, Durrant, James R., Tang, Junwang

“…Artificial photosynthesis of alcohols from CO2 is still unsatisfactory owing to the rapid charge relaxation compared to the sluggish photoreactions and the…”
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Electron Transfer Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Listorti, Andrea, O’Regan, Brian, Durrant, James R

“…In this review, we address the materials design parameters that control the processes of charge separation, and thereby device efficiency, in dye-sensitized…”
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Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO3 for water oxidation by Corby, Sacha, Francàs, Laia, Kafizas, Andreas, Durrant, James R

“…Oxygen vacancies are common to most metal oxides, whether intentionally incorporated or otherwise, and the study of these defects is of increasing interest for…”
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Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Investigation of Charge Trapping in Carbon Nitrides Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Generation by Godin, Robert, Wang, Yiou, Zwijnenburg, Martijn A, Tang, Junwang, Durrant, James R

“…Carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as a benchmark polymer photocatalyst is attracting significant research interest because of its visible light photocatalytic…”
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Materials Design Considerations for Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells by Dimitrov, Stoichko D, Durrant, James R

“…This article reviews some of our recent progress on materials design guidelines for photoinduced charge generation in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells…”
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Electron Accumulation Induces Efficiency Bottleneck for Hydrogen Production in Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts by Yang, Wenxing, Godin, Robert, Kasap, Hatice, Moss, Benjamin, Dong, Yifan, Hillman, Sam A. J, Steier, Ludmilla, Reisner, Erwin, Durrant, James R

“…This study addresses the light intensity dependence of charge accumulation in a photocatalyst suspension, and its impact on both charge recombination kinetics…”
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Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy of CoPi on BiVO4: The Function of CoPi during Water Oxidation by Ma, Yimeng, Kafizas, Andreas, Pendlebury, Stephanie R., Le Formal, Florian, Durrant, James R.

“…This paper employs photoinduced absorption and electrochemical techniques to analyze the charge carrier dynamics that drive photoelectrochemical water…”
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Water Oxidation and Electron Extraction Kinetics in Nanostructured Tungsten Trioxide Photoanodes by Corby, Sacha, Francàs, Laia, Selim, Shababa, Sachs, Michael, Blackman, Chris, Kafizas, Andreas, Durrant, James R

“…A thorough understanding of the kinetic competition between desired water oxidation/electron extraction processes and any detrimental surface recombination is…”
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On the Differences between Dark and Light Ideality Factor in Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells by Kirchartz, Thomas, Deledalle, Florent, Tuladhar, Pabitra Shakya, Durrant, James R, Nelson, Jenny

“…Ideality factors are derived from either the slope of the dark current/voltage curve or the light intensity dependence of the open-circuit voltage in solar…”
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High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor by Holliday, Sarah, Ashraf, Raja Shahid, Wadsworth, Andrew, Baran, Derya, Yousaf, Syeda Amber, Nielsen, Christian B., Tan, Ching-Hong, Dimitrov, Stoichko D., Shang, Zhengrong, Gasparini, Nicola, Alamoudi, Maha, Laquai, Frédéric, Brabec, Christoph J., Salleo, Alberto, Durrant, James R., McCulloch, Iain

“…Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) offer the attractive prospect of low-cost, light-weight and environmentally benign solar energy production. The…”
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Unique hole-accepting carbon-dots promoting selective carbon dioxide reduction nearly 100% to methanol by pure water by Wang, Yiou, Liu, Xu, Han, Xiaoyu, Godin, Robert, Chen, Jialu, Zhou, Wuzong, Jiang, Chaoran, Thompson, Jamie F., Mustafa, K. Bayazit, Shevlin, Stephen A., Durrant, James R., Guo, Zhengxiao, Tang, Junwang

“…Solar-driven CO 2 reduction by abundant water to alcohols can supply sustainable liquid fuels and alleviate global warming. However, the sluggish water…”
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Molecular orientation-dependent energetic shifts in solution-processed non-fullerene acceptors and their impact on organic photovoltaic performance by Fu, Yuang, Lee, Tack Ho, Chin, Yi-Chun, Pacalaj, Richard A., Labanti, Chiara, Park, Song Yi, Dong, Yifan, Cho, Hye Won, Kim, Jin Young, Minami, Daiki, Durrant, James R., Kim, Ji-Seon

“…The non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) employed in state-of-art organic photovoltaics (OPVs) often exhibit strong quadrupole moments which can strongly impact on…”
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Evaluation of Surface State Mediated Charge Recombination in Anatase and Rutile TiO2 by Sachs, Michael, Pastor, Ernest, Kafizas, Andreas, Durrant, James R

“…In nanostructured thin films, photogenerated charge carriers can access the surface more easily than in dense films and thus react more readily. However, the…”
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Enhancing Light Absorption and Charge Transfer Efficiency in Carbon Dots through Graphitization and Core Nitrogen Doping by Martindale, Benjamin C. M., Hutton, Georgina A. M., Caputo, Christine A., Prantl, Sebastian, Godin, Robert, Durrant, James R., Reisner, Erwin

“…Single‐source precursor syntheses have been devised for the preparation of structurally similar graphitic carbon dots (CDs), with (g‐N‐CD) and without (g‐CD)…”
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Robust nonfullerene solar cells approaching unity external quantum efficiency enabled by suppression of geminate recombination by Baran, Derya, Gasparini, Nicola, Wadsworth, Andrew, Tan, Ching Hong, Wehbe, Nimer, Song, Xin, Hamid, Zeinab, Zhang, Weimin, Neophytou, Marios, Kirchartz, Thomas, Brabec, Christoph J., Durrant, James R., McCulloch, Iain

“…Nonfullerene solar cells have increased their efficiencies up to 13%, yet quantum efficiencies are still limited to 80%. Here we report efficient nonfullerene…”
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Kinetic and Energetic Paradigms for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Moving from the Ideal to the Real by O’Regan, Brian C, Durrant, James R

“…Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are photoelectrochemical solar cells. Their function is based on photoinduced charge separation at a dye-sensitized…”
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Understanding structure-activity relationships in linear polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution by Sachs, Michael, Sprick, Reiner Sebastian, Pearce, Drew, Hillman, Sam A. J., Monti, Adriano, Guilbert, Anne A. Y., Brownbill, Nick J., Dimitrov, Stoichko, Shi, Xingyuan, Blanc, Frédéric, Zwijnenburg, Martijn A., Nelson, Jenny, Durrant, James R., Cooper, Andrew I.

“…Conjugated polymers have sparked much interest as photocatalysts for hydrogen production. However, beyond basic considerations such as spectral absorption, the…”
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A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells by Lin, Yen-Hung, Sakai, Nobuya, Da, Peimei, Wu, Jiaying, Sansom, Harry C., Ramadan, Alexandra J., Mahesh, Suhas, Liu, Junliang, Oliver, Robert D. J., Lim, Jongchul, Aspitarte, Lee, Sharma, Kshama, Madhu, P. K., Morales‐Vilches, Anna B., Nayak, Pabitra K., Bai, Sai, Gao, Feng, Grovenor, Chris R. M., Johnston, Michael B., Labram, John G., Durrant, James R., Ball, James M., Wenger, Bernard, Stannowski, Bernd, Snaith, Henry J.

“…Stable perovskites with ionic salts Ionic liquids have been shown to stabilize organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells with metal oxide carrier-transport…”
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Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT by Mesa, Camilo A., Francàs, Laia, Yang, Ke R., Garrido-Barros, Pablo, Pastor, Ernest, Ma, Yimeng, Kafizas, Andreas, Rosser, Timothy E., Mayer, Matthew T., Reisner, Erwin, Grätzel, Michael, Batista, Victor S., Durrant, James R.

“…Water oxidation is the key kinetic bottleneck of photoelectrochemical devices for fuel synthesis. Despite advances in the identification of intermediates,…”
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