Nanostructured Upconvertors for Advanced Solar Energy Harvesting

用于先进太阳能收集的纳米结构上变频器

• 批准号: FT130100177
• 负责人: Prof Timothy Schmidt
• 金额: $ 59.17万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-04-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130100177
• 关键词: Nanostructured; Upconvertors; Advanced; Solar; Energy

The efficiency of many solar energy conversion processes, such as solar photovoltaic and solar hydrogen, can be improved by management of the solar spectrum. One photon management strategy is up-conversion, whereby two lower energy, unusable photons are conjoined to bring about a higher energy photon. Photochemical up-conversion, where light harvesting and energy-pooling is performed in organic molecules, has been rapidly advanced in recent years, and promises to deliver the efficiencies required to find real-world application. This project brings together laser spectroscopy, organic and materials chemistry and nanotechnology to realise efficient up-convertors which will be applied to solar cells and solar fuels.

许多太阳能转换过程的效率，例如太阳能光伏和太阳能氢，可以通过太阳光谱的管理来提高。一种光子管理策略是上转换，即两个能量较低、不可用的光子结合起来产生一个能量较高的光子。光化学上转换，即在有机分子中进行光收集和能量池，近年来得到了迅速发展，并有望提供实际应用所需的效率。该项目汇集了激光光谱、有机和材料化学以及纳米技术，以实现高效的上转换器，并将其应用于太阳能电池和太阳能燃料。