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ArticleNature communications2025

Robust organic radical cations with near-unity absorption across solar spectrum.

Shuai Zhang, Wenbin Huang, Yuxin Zhu, Jian Wang, Feng Cao, Qian Zhang, Engui Zhao, Zikai He

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Shuai ZhangSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Wenbin HuangSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3962-1114
Yuxin ZhuSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Jian WangSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Feng CaoSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3140-4502
Qian ZhangSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-9781
Engui ZhaoSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China. zhaoengui@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4953-0750
Zikai HeSchool of Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China. hezikai@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9943-5677

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22375054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing low-energy-gap materials for efficient photothermal conversion provides promising candidates for solar energy utilization. Herein, we explore the feasibility of employing robust organic radical cations as near-unity solar absorbers for practical seawater evaporation. Gram-scale organic radical cations are straightforwardly synthesized through single-electron oxidation. The open-shell structure and intervalence charge-transfer characteristics of radicals enable near-unity absorption of full solar spectral irradiance. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy reveals that the intervalence charge-transfer electron relaxes non-radiatively in femtoseconds, with a rapid rate of 5.26 × 10

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