Light-Harvesting Materials: New Light-Harvesting Materials Using Accurate and Efficient Bandgap Calculations (Adv. Energy Mater. 2/2015)

New Light-Harvesting Materials Using Accurate and Effi cient Bandgap Calculations

the search for stable binary and ternary alloys, [ 1 ] batteries, [ 2 ] carbon capture and storage, [ 3 ] photovoltaics, [ 4,5 ] dye sensitized solar cells, [ 6 ] and water splitting materials [ 7,8 ] has been guided by computational studies. The huge amount of data produced during these studies has been collected in several databases, for example, the Materials Project database, [ 9 ] the AFLO...

Metal-organic framework materials for light-harvesting and energy transfer.

A critical review of the emerging field of MOFs for photon collection and subsequent energy transfer is presented. Discussed are examples involving MOFs for (a) light harvesting, using (i) MOF-quantum dots and molecular chromophores, (ii) chromophoric MOFs, and (iii) MOFs with light-harvesting properties, and (b) energy transfer, specifically via the (i) Förster energy transfer and (ii) Dexter ...

Organic Light-harvesting Materials for Power Generation

Efficient estimation of energy transfer efficiency in light-harvesting complexes.

The fundamental physical mechanisms of energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes is not yet fully understood. In particular, the degree of efficiency or sensitivity of these systems for energy transfer is not known given their realistic with surrounding photonic and phononic environments. One major problem in studying light-harvesting complexes has been the lack of an efficient method for sim...

Energy Transfer and Photosynthetic Light Harvesting