Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40855362›Full record

ArticleNature chemistry2025

Photoinduced double charge accumulation in a molecular compound.

Mathis Brändlin, Björn Pfund, Oliver S Wenger

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. π-Bridge Modulation in Three-Motif Covalent Organic Framework for Efficient HAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Mechanistic Design in Photocatalysis.Accounts of chemical research · 2026
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mathis BrändlinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-7318-0638
Björn PfundDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0936-2975
Oliver S WengerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. oliver.wenger@unibas.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-0553

Funding

Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (National Research Fund) 14583224Wellcome Trust 208446
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photochemistry involves elementary steps in which single electrons are transferred, but artificial photosynthesis requires multi-electron reactions. This discrepancy necessitates light-driven charge accumulation, which has so far proved very difficult to achieve without sacrificial redox reagents. Here we report a molecular donor-photosensitizer-acceptor compound in which light absorption leads to the reversible accumulation of two positive and two negative charges. The resulting photoproduct forms with an overall quantum yield of 37%, has a lifetime of more than 100 ns and stores 3.0 eV of energy. The use of a structurally well-defined molecular compound provides fundamental insights into how light-driven multi-electron transfer can generally be performed efficiently and sustainably, at irradiance levels orders of magnitude below those required in comparable systems. This represents a step towards more application-oriented research on solar fuels from fundamental studies of photoinduced (single) electron transfer.

Identifiers

PMID40855362
PMCPMC12580319

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.