{"title":"High-Performance Ultraviolet Photovoltaic Detectors Based on Two-Dimensional Wide Bandgap PEA2PbBr4 Perovskite with Weak Light Detection Ability.","authors":"Chao Xie,Hui Yu,Cong Li,Can Fu,Liangpan Yang,Wenhua Yang,Zhixiang Huang","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01881","url":null,"abstract":"The development of efficient and economic ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors is urgently required for many military and civil utilizations. Herein, we report on a UV photovoltaic-type detector utilizing a two-dimensional wide bandgap PEA2PbBr4 perovskite as the light-absorbing media. By introducing a MoO3 thin layer to enhance hole transport and extraction, the photovoltage/photocurrent of the detector is improved, and the dark current is depressed simultaneously, rendering a significantly enhanced UV photoresponse. Remarkably, a UV self-driven detector constructed on a rigid substrate attains a high photovoltage responsivity of 6.58 × 105 V/W, a large photocurrent responsivity of 182.3 mA/W, a respectable specific detectivity of 1.1 × 1012 Jones, a rapid response speed of 16.2/26.2 ms, and a sizable linear dynamic range of 134 dB, upon 365 nm UV irradiation, along with a large UV/visible rejection ratio of 1047. Also, the above photoresponse parameters can reach 2.61 × 105 V/W, 90.1 mA/W, 1.57 × 1011 Jones, 17.4/27.5 ms, 119 dB, and 1021, for a device assembled on a plastic substrate. More importantly, both detectors exhibit ultralow dark currents on the order of pA, endowing them with the capability of sensing ultraweak UV light signals as low as 4.1 nW/cm2. Plus, the flexible UV detector exhibited robust mechanical flexibility and bending durability. The utilization as a UV image sensor is demonstrated, as well. These UV photodetectors may find potential utilization in future UV optoelectronic systems.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 1","pages":"7929-7936"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terthiophene Photophysics Revisited: Independence of the Triplet Quantum Yield on the Excitation Wavelength.","authors":"Johannes Wega,Franck Guignard,Eric Vauthey","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c02050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c02050","url":null,"abstract":"A significant part of our understanding of the excited-state properties of polythiophenes comes from studies of smaller oligothiophenes, which have a better-defined structure. Among them, terthiophene (3T) was reported to have an excitation-wavelength dependent triplet quantum yield, ΦT. This was explained by the opening of a second intersystem crossing (ISC) pathway upon the high-energy excitation of distorted molecules. Here, we reinvestigate the excited-state dynamics of 3T in solvents of various viscosity and in a polymer film. Our results reveal that, although different subpopulations are excited upon high- and low-energy irradiation, the ISC dynamics, and hence ΦT, are the same. We show that the distorted molecules excited at short wavelength undergo rapid planarization independent of the viscosity of the environment before significant ISC takes place. The apparent increase of ΦT with increasing excitation wavelength reported earlier can be explained by the neglect of the early relaxation dynamics.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"6 1","pages":"7984-7989"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144737319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuebo Zhou,Yugui Yao,Zheng Li,Jin Cao,Wei Wu,Jianlin Luo
{"title":"In-Plane Hall Effect in a RuO2 Single Crystal.","authors":"Xuebo Zhou,Yugui Yao,Zheng Li,Jin Cao,Wei Wu,Jianlin Luo","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01699","url":null,"abstract":"We present an in-plane Hall effect and magneto-transport anisotropy in RuO2 single crystals. A 2π-periodic in-plane Hall effect was observed in the (101)/(001) and (110) planes. Furthermore, the in-plane Hall resistivity of the single-crystal samples exhibits multiple harmonics and a nonlinear dependence on the magnetic field as the temperature decreases. The multiple harmonics observed at low temperatures may result from higher order terms in the Hall vector.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"215 1","pages":"7883-7888"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photochromic Phenoxyl-Imidazolyl Radical Complex via Homolytic C-O Bond Cleavage.","authors":"Daisuke Tanaka,Shunsuke Kobashi,Hiroaki Yamashita,Yuki Nagai,Jiro Abe,Yoichi Kobayashi","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01791","url":null,"abstract":"We report a new photochromic phenoxyl imidazolyl radical complex (PIC) that exhibits reversible homolytic C-O bond cleavage upon UV light irradiation. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy revealed pronounced spectral evolution on nanosecond time scales, reflecting rotational isomerization between two open form isomers. Time-resolved infrared absorption measurements confirmed their biradical character and supported the presence of both isomers in thermodynamic equilibrium. The thermal back-reaction of the photogenerated open form isomers occurs approximately 1000 times faster than that of a conventional PIC derivative, due to structural modifications of the phenoxyl unit. These results demonstrate that rational control over bond dissociation geometry enables the tuning of photochromic kinetics and provides a novel approach to designing fast-switching molecular systems.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"5 1","pages":"7909-7914"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie E T Kendall-Price,Ryan J O Nichol,Andrea Taladriz-Sender,Ryan Phelps,Partha Malakar,Gregory M Greetham,Glenn A Burley,Neil T Hunt
{"title":"Long-Range Allosteric Modulation of DNA Duplex Dynamics Induced by Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamide Binding.","authors":"Sophie E T Kendall-Price,Ryan J O Nichol,Andrea Taladriz-Sender,Ryan Phelps,Partha Malakar,Gregory M Greetham,Glenn A Burley,Neil T Hunt","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01542","url":null,"abstract":"The allosteric modulation of the structural dynamics of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) duplexes as a function of distance from the site of a minor groove binding ligand is reported. Time-resolved temperature-jump infrared spectroscopy is used to interrogate the impact of binding a pyrrole-imidazole polyamide to dsDNA sequences 8-14 base-pairs in length. Our results demonstrate that the binding of the hairpin polyamide to its target site (5'-WWGTACW-3'; W = A/T) causes a marked suppression of structural dynamics, such as end fraying, with suppression observed in both the 3' and 5' directions. Quantitative analysis of end fraying suppression reveals a propagation length for dynamic modulation of 30 base-pairs. Identifying the structural impact of minor groove binding to dsDNA sequences furthers our understanding of the influence of dsDNA recognition and informs the design of next-generation synthetic transcription factors.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"132 1","pages":"7875-7882"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Salt Solvation Slows Water Dynamics While Blue-Shifting Its Dielectric Spectrum.","authors":"Florian Pabst, Stefano Baroni","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Water inherently contains trace amounts of various salts, yet the microscopic processes by which salts influence some of its physical properties remain elusive. Notably, the mechanisms that reduce the dielectric constant of water upon salt addition are still debated. The primary absorption peak for electromagnetic radiation─commonly used in microwave heating─shifts toward higher frequencies in saline solutions, suggesting faster water molecular dynamics. This observation, however, contrasts with the simultaneous increase in viscosity and experimental reports that ionic solutes would slow down water molecular motion. In this work, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with deep-neural-network models trained on high-quality quantum mechanical data to mimic interatomic forces and molecular dipoles, to compute the dielectric spectra of perchlorate water saline solution, which may be relevant to the recent discovery of liquid water beneath the thick ice crust at Mars's south pole. Our results reveal that both the reduction in the dielectric constant and the absorption peak shift can be attributed to ion-induced changes in the orientational ordering of water molecules. Additionally, we demonstrate that the self-part of the molecular dipole-dipole correlation function reveals clear signatures of the slowing dynamics within the first cationic solvation shell, consistent with the experimentally observed increase in viscosity.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":" ","pages":"7915-7920"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144726084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast and Accurate Charge Transfer Excitations via Nested Aufbau Suppressed Coupled Cluster.","authors":"Harrison Tuckman, Eric Neuscamman","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Modeling charge transfer well can require treating postexcitation orbital relaxations and handling medium to large molecules in realistic environments. By combining a state-specific correlation treatment with such orbital relaxations, Aufbau suppressed coupled cluster has proven to be accurate for charge transfer, but like many coupled cluster methods, it struggles with large system sizes. We derive a low-cost Aufbau suppressed second-order perturbation theory and show that by nesting a small coupled cluster treatment inside of it, computational cost and scaling are reduced while accuracy is maintained. Formal asymptotic costs are dropped from iterative <i>N</i><sup>6</sup> to noniterative <i>N</i><sup>5</sup> plus iterative <i>N</i><sup>3</sup>, and we test an initial implementation that can handle about 100 atoms and 800 orbitals on a single computational node. Charge transfer excitation energy errors are typically below 0.1 eV, with an average 0.25 eV improvement over the <i>N</i><sup>6</sup>-cost equation of motion coupled cluster with singles and doubles.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":" ","pages":"7889-7897"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144726083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etienne Palos, Heng Zhao, Kimberly J Daas, Eduardo Fabiano, Francesco Paesani, Stefan Vuckovic
{"title":"Møller-Plesset Adiabatic Connection Theory for Diverse Noncovalent Interactions.","authors":"Etienne Palos, Heng Zhao, Kimberly J Daas, Eduardo Fabiano, Francesco Paesani, Stefan Vuckovic","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Møller-Plesset adiabatic connection (MPAC) theory provides a powerful framework for constructing approximations to wave function-based correlation energy, enabling modeling of noncovalent interactions (NCIs) with near-CCSD(T) accuracy. We show that approximate MPAC functionals consistently outperform MP2 and dispersion-corrected DFT (DFT+DISP) across diverse systems, including charged and charge-transfer complexes. MPAC functionals operate holistically at the electronic level, require no heuristic dispersion corrections, and achieve near-chemical accuracy even for abnormal NCIs, cases where DFT+DISP errors exceed those of DFT. To further improve MPAC for abnormal cases without compromising overall performance, we introduce MPAC25, a simple two-parameter functional treating neutral and charged NCIs equally, as demonstrated on DES15K benchmarks. Overall, MPAC functionals effectively describe a wide range of NCIs, including those beyond the reach of other methods, representing a significant step toward predictive simulations of molecular interactions in complex environments and motivating further MPAC developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":" ","pages":"7898-7908"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144726085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karl P Horn,Meenu Upadhyay,Baruch Margulis,Daniel M Reich,Edvardas Narevicius,Markus Meuwly,Christiane P Koch
{"title":"Feshbach Resonances in Cold Collisions: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces.","authors":"Karl P Horn,Meenu Upadhyay,Baruch Margulis,Daniel M Reich,Edvardas Narevicius,Markus Meuwly,Christiane P Koch","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01581","url":null,"abstract":"High-quality potential energy surfaces (PESs) are prerequisites for quantitative atomistic simulations with both quantum and classical dynamics approaches. The ultimate test for the validity of a PES entails comparisons with judiciously chosen experimental observables. Here we ask whether cold collision measurements are sufficiently informative to validate and distinguish between high-level, state-of-the art PESs for the strongly interacting Ne-H2+ system. We show that measurement of the final state distributions for a process that involves several metastable intermediate states is sufficient to identify the PES that captures the long-range interactions properly. Furthermore, we show that a modest increase in the experimental energy resolution will allow for resolving individual Feshbach resonances and enable a quantitative probe of the interactions in the short and intermediate ranges.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"126 1","pages":"7862-7867"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accurate Performance Assessment of Lithium-Oxygen Batteries by Obtaining the Globally Stable Structures of Reaction Intermediates.","authors":"Yan Wang,Xiaojuan Hu,Zhiyu Wang,Zhong-Kang Han","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01648","url":null,"abstract":"Single-atom catalysts hold great promise for enhancing redox efficiency in nonaqueous lithium-oxygen batteries, but inconsistent performance evaluations persist due to the vast configurational space of LixOy discharge products. Here, we address this challenge by integrating first-principles calculations with a differential evolution algorithm to perform exhaustive global structure searches. We screened over 1,500 adsorption geometries of LiO2, Li2O2, and (Li2O2)2 on transition-metal and nitrogen codoped graphene (TM-N4C, TM = Ru, Fe, Co, Pt, Ni) and identified the true ground-state configurations. These globally optimized structures exhibit significantly greater thermodynamic stability than the manually selected models commonly used in prior studies, revealing that reliance on a limited set of representative geometries can lead to erroneous performance predictions. Free-energy analyses further highlight Co-N4C as the optimal catalyst, with ultralow overpotentials for oxygen reduction (0.17 V) and evolution (0.10 V), and designate Li2O2 formation and (Li2O2)2 decomposition as the rate-limiting steps in discharge and charge, respectively. The exceptional activity of Co-N4C arises from its balanced adsorption energies, which promote uniform deposition of discharge products during cycling and facilitate their efficient desorption upon charging. By eliminating the biases of manual structure selection, this work establishes a rigorous framework for accurate electrocatalytic performance assessment in lithium-oxygen batteries.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"24 1","pages":"7868-7874"},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2025-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}