M. Kyle Brennaman

TL;DR: The underlying physical principles--light absorption, energy transfer, radiative and nonradiative excited-state decay, electron transfer, proton-coupled electronTransfer, and catalysis--are outlined with an eye toward their roles in molecular assemblies for energy conversion.

TL;DR: A general reactivity toward water oxidation in a class of molecules whose properties can be "tuned" systematically by synthetic variations based on mechanistic insight is described.

TL;DR: Polyethylenimine functions as a co-catalyst by significantly reducing catalytic overpotential and increasing current density and efficiency and appears to help in stabilizing the singly reduced intermediate CO2(•-) and concentrating CO2 in the PEI overlayer.

TL;DR: Applications Dennis L. Ashford,† Melissa K. Gish,† Aaron K. Vannucci,‡ M. Kyle Brennaman,† Joseph L. Templeton,† John M. Papanikolas,† and Thomas J. Meyer are submitted.

TL;DR: The dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell (DSPEC) integrates high bandgap, nanoparticle oxide semiconductors with the light-absorbing and catalytic properties of designed chromophore-catalyst assemblies to play an important role in the energy future.