“…It being a shame to waste all those potentially perfectly good solar photons, approaches must be taken to improve the absorption characteristics of the medium, especially to the red; there is no lack of chromophores + , substitution of phen (=1,10-phenanthroline) for bpy or substitution on the polypyridyl rings has little effect on X max or the shape of the visible absorption envelope (26,27). Some red shift of X max to 473 and 501 nm is observed for Ru(terpy)^+ and Ru(TPTZ)^+ (terpy = 2,2',2"^terpyridine; TPTZ = 2,4,6-tri(2-pyridyl-s-triazine)) (26).…”