Optimization of electron transfer pathways in atomically precise metal nanoclusters: catalyzing a leap in solar water oxidation.

ABSTRACT: Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs, <2 nm) with precise numbers of metal atoms and ligands have attracted enormous attention as highly promising photosensitizers owing to their peculiar atom-stacking mode, quantum confinement effect, enriched active sites and discrete molecular-like energy band structures. Despite these merits, metal NCs still suffer from inherent drawbacks such as ultrafast photogenerated carrier recombination, poor photostability and difficulties in regulating the charge transport pathway, which severely hinder their applications in photocatalysis. Herein, we strategically constructed spatially hierarchically ordered MOs/(PDDA/MQDs/PDDA/Ag _y ) _n heterostructure artificial photosystems by layer-by-layer assembly of oppositely ch

SUBMITTER: Su P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12721130 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature