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Collaborative research between ANSTO and the University of Cambridge is featured on the frontispiece of this week's edition of Advanced Energy Materials. Jacqueline M. Cole and co-workers report the use of molecular engineering to design a new class of dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs).
Structure-function relationships, existing between the dye/TiO2 interface (working electrode) and photovoltaic properties of a DSC, provide the design information needed to re-engineer one type of functional (laser) dye into another (DSC) functional form. New dyes are built from molecular fragments, like a jigsaw puzzle.
The full reference to the work is: "Molecular Engineering: Transforming Benzophenoxazine Laser Dyes into Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Molecular Engineering Approach" , F. A. Y. N. Schröder, J. M. Cole, P. G. Waddell and S. McKechnie, Advanced Energy Materials 5 (9), May 6, 2015; DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201570047
Published: 11/05/2015