Engendering Long-Term Air and Light Stability of a TiO2-Supported Porphyrinic Dye via Atomic Layer Deposition
- Authors
- Hoffeditz, William L.; Son, Ho-Jin; Pellin, Michael J.; Farha, Omar K.; Hupp, Joseph T.
- Issue Date
- 21-12월-2016
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- atomic layer deposition; porphyrin dye; increased dye stability; dye enshroudment; dimethylaluminum isopropoxide; protective coating
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v.8, no.50, pp.34863 - 34869
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 50
- Start Page
- 34863
- End Page
- 34869
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/86514
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsami.6b10844
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- Abstract
- Organic and porphyrin-based chromophores are prevalent in liquid-junction photovoltaic and photocatalytic solar-cell chemistry; however, their long-term air and light instability may limit their practicality in real world technologies. Here, we describe the protection of a zinc porphyrin dye, adsorbed on nanoparticulate TiO2, from air and light degradation by a protective coating of alumina grown with a previously developed post-treatment atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique. The protective Al2O3 ALD layer is deposited using dimethylaluminum isopropoxide as an Al source; in contrast to the ubiquitous ALD precursor trimethylalurninum, dimethylaluminum isopropoxide does not degrade the zinc porphyrin dye, as confirmed by UV vis measurements. The growth of this protective ALD layer around the dye can be monitored by an in-reactor quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). Furthermore, greater than 80% of porphyrin light absorption is retained over month of exposure to air and light when the protective coating is present, whereas almost complete loss of porphyrin absorption is observed in less than 2 days in the absence of the ALD protective layer. Applying the Al2O3 post-treatment technique to the TiO2-adsorbed dye allows the dye to remain in electronic contact with both the semiconductor surface and a surrounding electrolyte solution, the combination of which makes this technique promising for numerous other electrochemical photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications, especially those involving the dye-sensitized evolution of oxygen.
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