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Modifications on Reduced Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts: A Review
Publication date: Available online 19 May 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Wenzhang Fang, Mingyang Xing, Jinlong Zhang A large variety of reduced titanium dioxide (TiO2-x) materials have been reported recently. Reduced TiO2, usually resulting from the removal of oxygen atoms or hydrogen incorporation, are proved to be efficient for achieving highly photocatalytic performance including photodegradation of organic compounds, hydrogen generation from water splitting, CO2 reduction for CH4 evolution, solar cells, etc. To further improve the properties and activiti...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - May 19, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Photochemistry and photo-electrochemistry on synthetic semiconducting diamond
Publication date: Available online 13 May 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Daibing Luo, Kazuya Nakata, Akira Fujishima, Shanhu Liu In this short review, we discuss the photo-relative properties, photochemical and photo-electrochemical applications of synthetic diamond materials. Synthetic diamond with semiconductive nature owns outstanding ideal properties of physics and chemistry, including high hardness, a wide bandgap, very high carrier mobility, excellent chemical stability, and inherent biocompatibility, which makes diamond promising candidate used in ph...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - May 14, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Layer-by-layer assembled photocatalysts for environmental remediation and solar energy conversion
Publication date: Available online 12 May 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Barbara N. Nunes, Leonardo F. Paula, Ítalo A. Costa, Antonio Eduardo H. Machado, Leonardo G. Paterno, Antonio Otavio T. Patrocinio The past decades have witnessed great research efforts based on nanotechnology and molecular engineering for the development of photo-induced devices, aiming at conversion of solar energy into electricity and fuels as well as the use of solar light for environmental remediation. The main challenge of this exciting field is to find suitable ways of assemb...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - May 13, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Photo- and redoxfunctional cyclophanes, macrocycles, and catenanes based on aromatic bisimides
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Peter Spenst, Frank Würthner Aromatic bis(dicarboximides), abbreviated as bisimides or diimides, are interesting building blocks for the construction of electro- and photofunctional architectures. The possibility of reversible reduction of aromatic molecules equipped with imide units at modest redox potentials between about –1.3 and –1.0V vs. the ferrocenium/ferrocene redox couple could be exploited by a broad variety of electroactive cyclophanes, macrocycles and catenane scaffold...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - March 28, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Squaraine Dyes: the Hierarchical Synthesis and Its Application in Optical Detection
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Guomin Xia, Hongming Wang Squaraine dyes, a four-membered ring system with structural rigidity, possess unique photoelectrical properties and are marked by their exceptionally sharp and intense absorption associated with a strong fluorescent emission in solution. These favorable characteristics have prompted their exploitation in a number of state of the art applications including photoconductivity, data storage, light-emitting field-effect transistors, solar cells and fluorescent hist...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - March 23, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Solar energy conversion: From natural to artificial photosynthesis
Publication date: Available online 20 February 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Eithar El-Mohsnawy, Shunichi Fukuzumi Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An especially attractive approach is to store solar energy in the form of chemical bonds as performed in natural photosynthesis. Therefore, there is a challenge in the last decades to construct semi-artificial and artificial photosynthetic systems, ...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - February 21, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Applied photoelectrocatalysis on the degradation of organic pollutants in wastewaters
Publication date: Available online 9 February 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Sergi Garcia-Segura, Enric Brillas A large variety of electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) have been recently developed to remove organic pollutants from wastewaters to avoid their serious health-risk factors from their environmental accumulation and to reuse the treated water for human activities. The effectiveness of EAOPs is based on the in situ production of strong reactive oxygen species (ROS) like hydroxyl radical (OH). Photoelectrocatalysis (PEC) has emerged as...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - February 9, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Targetable fluorescent sensors for advanced cell function analysis
Publication date: Available online 29 January 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Shin Mizukami (Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews)
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - January 28, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Characterization of facilitated diffusion of tumor suppressor p53 along DNA using single-molecule fluorescence imaging
We describe the research on the 3D diffusion and 1D sliding of p53 mainly via single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. In addition to the demonstration of the 1D sliding of p53, recent experiments revealed multiple modes of 1D sliding, regulation of the target recognition, and the constant search distance despite changes in the concentrations of divalent cations. Furthermore, rotation-coupled 1D sliding along DNA is suggested. A comparison of parameters of the facilitated diffusion of p53 and those of other DNA-binding proteins characterized so far suggests that the ratio of 3D diffusion and 1D sliding is close to the theo...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - January 26, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Medically Translatable Quantum Dots for Biosensing and Imaging
Publication date: Available online 21 January 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Youngrong Park, Sanghwa Jeong, Sungjee Kim Photoluminescent quantum dots (QDs) promise many biomedical applications as a new class of optical probes showing unique optical properties such as high brightness, stability, and multiplexing ability. In this review, we focus on recent research interest of medically-translatable QDs for in vitro biomedical sensing and in vivo imaging. QD-based biomedical sensing shows higher selectivity and sensitivity over conventional methods for immunoh...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - January 21, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Oxygen imaging of living cells and tissues using luminescent molecular probes
Publication date: Available online 20 January 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Toshitada Yoshihara, Yosuke Hirakawa, Masahiro Hosaka, Masaomi Nangaku, Seiji Tobita Oxygen imaging of biological cells and tissues is becoming increasingly important in cell biology and in the pathophysiology of various hypoxia-related diseases. The optical oxygen-sensing method using luminescent probes provides very useful, high spatial resolution information regarding oxygen distribution in living cells and tissues. This review focuses on recent advances in biological oxygen me...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - January 20, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Thermometers for monitoring cellular temperature
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2017 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Masahiro Nakano, Takeharu Nagai Temperature is a critical parameter that influences various biological events and reactions in homeotherms (including mammals), poikilotherms, and plants. However, the spatiotemporal patterns of temperature at the single-cell level remain largely unknown. Various kinds of thermometers have been developed for monitoring temperature at the single-cell level. We introduce some cellular thermometers based on Europium (III) thenoyltrifluoroacetonate trihydr...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - January 11, 2017 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Non-equilibrium effects in ultrafast photoinduced charge transfer kinetics
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2016 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Serguei V. Feskov, Valentina A. Mikhailova, Anatoly I. Ivanov Modern laser-based spectroscopy has provided methods for detection ultrafast photochemical transformations occurring on the timescale of intramolecular and solvent reorganization. Such processes usually proceed in non-equilibrium regime, in parallel with nuclear relaxation, and often manifest strong deviations from the Kasha-Vavilov rule. In particular, they offer a possibility to control the yield of photoinduced electr...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - November 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Phenomenon to Functions: Photochromism of Diarylpyrans, Spectrokinetic Properties and Functional Materials
Publication date: Available online 16 November 2016 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews Author(s): Arindam Mukhopadhyay, Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy Diarylbenzo- and naphthopyrans are one of the important and well-known classses of organic photochromic systems. Their photolysis leads to highly colored o-quinonoid intermediates. The mechanistic details and spectrokinectic properties of the photogenerated colored intermediates have been extensively studied. Accordingly, stereoelectronic effects have been shown to play a crucial role in controlling properties such as spectrokinetics, f...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - November 16, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Evolution of 2, 3 ′-bipyridine class of cyclometalating ligands as efficient phosphorescent iridium(III) emitters for applications in organic light emitting diodes
Publication date: December 2016 Source:Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, Volume 29 Author(s): M.L.P. Reddy, K.S. Bejoymohandas Nowadays, the design and development of novel phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes for various optoelectronic applications is a well-recognized area of research. The fascinating photophysical properties of iridium(III) compounds are strongly influenced by the spin-orbit coupling exerted by the iridium(III) core, usually resulting in intense emissions with short excited-state lifetimes, which can be precisely controlled with the aid of molecular engineering o...
Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews - November 15, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research