Exploring photochemistry when distance matters: from supramolecular systems to plasmon-enhanced optical properties.

当距离很重要时探索光化学：从超分子系统到等离子体增强光学特性。

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-03824
• 负责人: Heyne, Belinda
• 金额: $ 3.28万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=632551
• 关键词: Exploring; photochemistry; when; distance; matters

Light is the major source of energy that powers life on earth, and controlling it enabled the evolution of human civilization to our current modern society. Today, many of the technologies we take for granted, from smartphones to routine electronic payment, exist thanks to photonics, the science of light. Photonics represents a $CAD 650 billion dollar global market, generating close to $CAD 4.6 billion dollars in annual revenue in Canada. Although smartphones seem to be in every hand, photonic-based technologies remain low profile in Canada. A major challenge retarding this industry is the lack of predictability in going from liquid solution to solid state application. In other words, the properties of molecules discovered in the laboratory under idealized conditions might not translate into photonic technologies, where molecules are in close proximity to one another.

光是地球上生命的主要能量来源，对光的控制使人类文明进化到今天的现代社会。今天，许多我们认为理所当然的技术，从智能手机到日常的电子支付，都要归功于光子学，即光的科学。光子学代表着价值6500亿加元的全球市场，在加拿大创造了近46亿加元的年收入。尽管智能手机似乎人人都有，但在加拿大，基于光子的技术仍然很低调。阻碍该行业发展的一个主要挑战是，从液态到固态应用缺乏可预测性。换句话说，在理想条件下在实验室中发现的分子特性可能无法转化为光子技术，在光子技术中分子彼此非常接近。