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Achieving fast exciton dissociation is a critical factor for optimizing the performance of organic photocatalysts in solar energy conversion. This work demonstrates the end-group-dependent ultrafast exciton dissociation in supramolecular perylene monoimide (PMI) nanostructures. A series of PMI molecules are designed by connecting the amide site with methylene carboxyl (─CH2─COOH), methylene phosphonic acid (─CH2─PO3H2), and methylene sulfonic acid (─CH2─SO3H) to increase the dipole moment and built-in electric field, thereby effectively diminishing exciton binding energy. Upon photoexcitation, self-assembled PMI-CH2-SO3H nanoribbons (NRs), which exhibit the lowest exciton binding energy of 29.4 meV, achieve ultrafast exciton dissociation within 0.25 ps, leading to the formation of charge-separated excitons from charge-transfer states. This dissociation rate is ≈40 and 16 times faster than that observed in PMI-CH2-COOH (NRs) and PMI-CH2-PO3H2 (NRs), respectively. Following the deposition of Pt nanoparticles on PMI NRs, Pt/PMI-CH2-SO3H (NRs) demonstrates an H2 evolution of 21.2 mmol g−1 h−1 under visible light irradiation (λ > 420 nm), outperforming Pt/PMI-CH2-COOH (NRs) and Pt/PMI-CH2-PO3H2 (NRs) by factors of 53 and 5.4, respectively. © 2025 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
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ISSN: 1613-6810
Year: 2025
Issue: 14
Volume: 21
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JCR@2023
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