Published on the 11th May 2015 by ANSTO Staff
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 |