Molecular Photonic Materials

授予约翰·霍普金斯大学杰拉尔德·迈耶教授的这一奖项是对先前奖项的延续，并得到了化学部先进材料和加工计划的支持。该奖项的重点将是确定基于溶胶-凝胶工艺的半导体材料的新型光伏材料中激发态和光引发的界面电子转移的基本机制。此外，这些材料与激发态、基态和还原状态的无机络合物的界面电子转移反应的表征也将在该奖项下进行。此外，确定稳态和时间分辨光谱的研究以及数学建模将是该奖项的一部分。用稳态和暂态光学和电化学方法研究光驱动的碘氧化还原化学，将为高效再生太阳能电池的设计提供信息。该奖项将在这一新兴领域为研究生和本科生提供培训，应用材料化学理论和应用开发高效和低成本的太阳能电池。在该奖项下，半导体材料将在通过溶胶-凝胶工艺制备后进行表征。该奖项将研究这些半导体材料中电子转移反应的机理，最终将导致低成本和高效的再生太阳能电池。材料化学方面的本科生和研究生教育和培训是该奖项的一部分。

This award to Professor Gerald Meyer of Johns Hopkins University is a renewal of an earlier award and is supported by the Advanced Materials and Processing Program in the Chemistry Division. The focus of the award will be the determination of the fundamental mechanisms of excited states and photo-initiated interfacial electron transfers in novel photovoltaic materials based on sol-gel processed semiconducting materials. Also, characterizations of these materials for interfacial electron transfer reactions with excited-, ground- and reduced-state inorganic complexes will be carried out under this award. In addition, the studies to determine the steady state and time resolved spectroscopies along with mathematical modeling will be part of the award. The research in photo-driven iodine redox chemistry by steady state and transient optical and electrochemical methods will provide information for the design of highly efficient regenerative solar cells. The award will provide training to graduate and undergraduate students in this emerging field in applying material chemistry theory and applications for the development of efficient and low cost solar cells.Under this award, semiconducting materials will be characterized after preparing them by sol-gel processing. The award will study the mechanism of the electron transfer reactions in these semiconducting materials, which eventually will lead to low cost and efficient regenerative solar cells. Undergraduate and graduate education and training in material chemistry is part of the award.