Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials for Energy and Opto-Electronic Applications.
This review presents an overview of the dedicated research directions of the Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials (GMF). This includes molecular engineering aspects of sensitizers constructed from ruthenium complexes, organic molecules, porphyrins and phthalocyanines. Manipulation of organometal trihalide perovskites, and charge transporting materials for high performance perovskite solar cells and photo-detectors are also described. Controlling phosphorescence color, and quantum yields in iridium complexes by tailoring ligands for organic light emitting diodes are demonstrated. Efficient reduction of CO(2) to CO using molecular catalyst on a protected Cu(2)O photocathode, and cost-effective water-splitting cell using a high efficiency perovskite solar cell are presented.
Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering-Valais, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Peng
P
Gao
Konrad
K
Domanski
Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering-Valais, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Domanski
D
Konrad
Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering-Valais, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sadig
S
Aghazada
Kasparas
K
Rakstys
Sanghyun
S
Paek
Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering-Valais, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. mdkhaja.nazeeruddin@epfl.ch.
Mohammad Khaja
MK
Nazeeruddin