Beyond the exciton: shaping molecular energy landscapes using polaritons

该项目旨在对分子系统中偏振子介导的光和热能传递有一个基本的了解，为其在太阳能电池和化学催化中的开发铺平道路。控制分子内和分子间的能量流动是分子科学面临的挑战之一。这种控制允许集中光能用于太阳能收集，并将热能定向用于现场选择化学。最近的研究表明，分子极化子，光和分子的混合物，是一种新的和独特的工具来断言这种控制。该项目的目标是使用极化激元真正颠覆性地提高太阳能电池的效率。

This project aims to deliver a fundamental understanding of polariton-mediated light and heat energy transfer in molecular systems, paving the way for their exploitation in solar cells and chemical catalysis. Controlling energy flow within and between molecules is one of the challenges of molecular science. Such control allows concentration of light energy for solar harvesting and direction of thermal energy for site-selective chemistry. Recent work shows that molecular polaritons, admixtures of light and molecules, are a new and unique tool to assert this control. This project aims to deliver genuinely disruptive improvements in solar cell efficiency using polaritons.