id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt wm117m03w2w Benjamin Wickes Merritt The Effect of 1,4-Diaminoanthraquinone as a Conductive Linker in Chromophore Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles 2007 .txt text/plain 143 5 41 Using AM1 calculations of the relative energies of the excited state of the light harvesting portion of the dye and the conduction band of colloidal AuNP in solution, a multi-component dye where electrons would be more likely to flow through this conductive linker than to follow other undesired deactivation pathways was designed. Chromophore functionalized gold nanoparitcles (AuNP) have been useful as light harvesting dyes in DSSCs, however one persistent problem is charge recombination which adversely affects the final electrical output of these systems. cache/wm117m03w2w.txt txt/wm117m03w2w.txt