Electrodeposited Zinc Oxide/Phthalocyanine Films – An Inorganic/Organic Hybrid System with Highly Variable Composition

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that the TSPcMe could act as photosensitizers in photoelectrochemical measurements. More recently, Pauporte el al. [7] extended this work by using other metals (Me = Ni, Co, Fe) and the use of O 2 instead of NO 3 as oxidant for the formation of ZnO. In all these studies, however, the TSPcMe were added to the electrodeposition bath in relatively low concentrations of typically 25 or 50 lM and a systematic variation of the dye concentration has not been carried out at all. In fact, the use of 3864

Electroanalysis of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) using nano-ZnO/poly(luminol) hybrid film modified electrode

“…ZnO-NPs are increasingly being used as pigments and UV absorbers in personal care products, coatings and paints, predominantly because of their UV absorbance efficiency and transparency to visible light. As a wide bandgap semiconductor material with a large excitation binding energy, ZnO has been promising applications in catalytic, electrical, optoelectronic, photochemical fields and sensors [31][32][33][34][35]. ZnO-NPs offers several advantages over existing biosensing platforms, most notably a large surface area for greater biofunctionalization [36] and the interest has been focused towards the applications of ZnO-NPs in chemical and biosensing because of its high isoelectric point (9.5), biocompatibility and fast electron transfer kinetics [37].…”

Orienting Periodic Organic−Inorganic Nanoscale Domains Through One-Step Electrodeposition

“…A variety of electronically active inorganic materials have been electrodeposited, including ZnO, 16–19 SnO 2 , 20 MnO 2 , 21 Co(OH) 2 , 22 and Ni(OH) 2 . 23 For photoconductor 24 and photovoltaic devices, 11, 25, 26 ZnO is a material of particular interest because it is an n-type semiconductor with high electron mobility and often forms interfaces with organic semiconductors that are energetically favorable for exciton splitting.…”

Electrodeposited Porous ZnO Sensitized by Organic Dyes – Promising Materials for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells with Potential Application in Large‐Scale Photovoltaics

“…Also hybrid materials of TSPc with ZnO were deposited from O 2 -based solutions as in the example of TSPcNi leading to a range of materials stretching from monomers of TSPcNi embedded into ZnO crystals to amorphous networks of TSPcNi with corresponding contrasting optoelectronic properties [263] . The EY/ZnO hybrid materials consisted of well -adhering hybrid thin fi lms with a high content of EY and excellent crystallinity.…”