Molecular-based Optical Sensitization of Wide-Bandgap Materials

这个奖项在无机，生物无机和有机化学计划支持研究教授詹姆斯K。McCusker在密歇根州立大学的研究，致力于理解第一步，这对未来的光伏电池设计很重要，在光敏材料的光转换过程中，即反应性是否需要激发态热化，或者可以从敏化剂的Franck-Condon态进行注入。 该研究包括三个阶段：I）详细的飞秒动力学研究，在溶液中，敏化剂候选人的太阳能电池的发展; II）研究的复合物在第一阶段检查连接到氧化锆纳米粒子;（三）研究第一阶段的复合物与二氧化钛纳米颗粒的连接，作为功能性再生太阳能电池的组成部分。这项研究的成功将大大有助于降低成本一个很有前途的太阳能电池系统。 这项研究还为研究生或博士后学生提供了化学，物理和太阳能电池设备的跨学科培训。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports research by Professor James K. McCusker at Michigan State University geared toward understanding the first step, which is important for future photovoltaic cell design, in the photoconversion process of optically sensitized materials, i.e. does reactivity require excited-state thermalization, or can injection proceed from the Franck-Condon state of the sensitizer. The research involves three phases: I) detailed femtosecond dynamics studies, in solution, of sensitizer candidates for solar cell development; II) studies of the complexes examined in Phase I attached to zirconium oxide nanoparticles; and III) studies of the complexes examined in Phase I attached to titanium oxide nanoparticles as components of functional regenerative solar cells.Success in this research would contribute greatly toward reducing the cost of a promising solar cell system. This research also provides interdisciplinary training in chemistry, physics and solar cell devices for a graduate or postdoctoral student.