US 12,074,000 B2
Iron chromophores for energy conversion
Ting Jiang, Durham, NC (US); Yusong Bai, Durham, NC (US); George Bullard, Durham, NC (US); Erin J. Viere, Durham, NC (US); Animesh Nayak, Durham, NC (US); Peng Zhang, Durham, NC (US); Courtney Rosenthal, Durham, NC (US); and Michael J Therien, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC (US)
Filed by Duke University, Durham, NC (US)
Filed on Jul. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/384,603.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/056,470, filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0028624 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H01G 9/20 (2006.01); C07F 15/02 (2006.01); H10K 85/30 (2023.01)
CPC H01G 9/2059 (2013.01) [C07F 15/02 (2013.01); H01G 9/2027 (2013.01); H10K 85/331 (2023.02); H10K 85/361 (2023.02); H10K 85/381 (2023.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A photosensitizer compound comprising:
an iron complex with at least one N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand;
a linking unit; and
a polarizable unit formed of a pi conjugated structure having a one-electron reduction potential more positive than the at least one NHC ligand.