King of the spins is provided by the mixed‐valent Mn19 aggregate as reported by A. K. Powell et al. in their Communication on page 4926 ff. The use of bridging azido ligands leads to a completely ferromagnetically coupled system with a record ground spin state of 83/2. This remarkable molecule has been investigated and characterized by scientists from three laboratories working together in the European Network of Excellence “MAGMANet”, the logo of which provides the background to the cover picture.
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) covalently modified with large porphyrin molecules have been
prepared to construct photoelectrochemical devices with nanostructured SnO2 electrodes on which the
multiporphyrin-linked SWNTs are deposited electrophoretically. The film of the porphyrin-linked SWNTs
on the nanostructured SnO2 electrode exhibited an incident photon-to-photocurrent efficiency as high as 4.9%
under an applied potential of 0.08 V vs SCE. The more uniform film and moderate photocurrent generation
in the porphyrin-linked SWNT devices can be rationalized by the exfoliation abilities of the bulky porphyrins
that yield large steric hindrance around the SWNTs. Direct electron injection from the excited states of the
SWNTs to the conduction band of the SnO2 electrode is responsible for the photocurrent generation. Despite
the efficient quenching of the porphyrin-excited singlet state by the SWNTs in the porphyrin-linked SWNTs,
the photocurrent action spectra revealed that the excitation of the porphyrin moieties makes no contribution
to the photocurrent generation. The evolution of an exciplex between the porphyrin-excited singlet state and
the SWNTs and the subsequent rapid decay to the ground state without generating the charge-separated state
is proposed to explain the unusual photoelectrochemical behavior. The results obtained here will provide
valuable information on the design of SWNT-based photoelectrochemical devices.
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