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Modular Electrochemical Reactivity for Photovoltaics’ Machines

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The paper presents the idea of an extensive study, starting on the one side from the main features of molecular machines and on the other side from the applicability of Fredholm integral in electrochemistry. To this aim, the chemical reactivity could be expressed as a link between electronegativity (χ), number of exchanged/carried/transported electrons/charges (N) and the total energy of the system, dynamically evolving under potential V, respectively through the differential equation \( \chi \, = \, - \left( {\partial E/\partial N} \right)_{V} \) and/or by its integral form \( E\, = \, - \int {\chi \left( N \right)_{V} dN} \). This way, the complementary electrochemistry processes, i.e. electrode interfaces’ processes (such as deposition, corrosion, oxidation, reduction processes, etc.) and the electrolyte solution phenomena (diffusion, dispersion, recombination processes, etc.), may be either interchanged and/or separately controlled. In this context, one may employ the conceptual mix between electronegativity (chemical reactivity) driving the charge transfer in an electrochemical cell with the molecular machine’s inner conversions and light activated features, the so called modular electrochemical reactivity laws are established. Remarkably, such modular controlling of electrochemical processes applied to self-organized molecular machines may control and eventually enhance the life-cycle of photovoltaics, by designing the appropriate electro-molecular modular photovoltaics machine with the inner electrochemistry modularly controlled.

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We hereby acknowledge the research project PED123/2017 of UEFISCDI-Romania.

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    Mirela Iorga, Marius Mirica & Mihai Putz

  2. Laboratory of Structural and Computational Physical-Chemistry for Nanosciences and QSAR, Biology-Chemistry Department, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Mihai Putz

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Iorga, M., Mirica, M., Putz, M. (2018). Modular Electrochemical Reactivity for Photovoltaics’ Machines. In: Visa, I., Duta, A. (eds) Nearly Zero Energy Communities. CSE 2017. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63215-5_29

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