Solar energy conversion and photodynamic therapy (PDT) are very different applications. However, both utilize very similar photoactive molecules called porphyrins. Porphy[...]

Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) materials are a class of nanostructured compounds based on Si-O linkages forming a cage with a silicon atom at each vertex, wh[...]

Porphyrin light-harvesting systems have recently shown promising solar energy conversion properties in organic photovoltaic devices. Porphyrins, which absorb a broad port[...]

Understanding exciton diffusion is a crucial step in the engineering and fabrication of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. We studied a variety of organic dyes in our re[...]

The role of solar power as a renewable energy source is of ever increasing importance to our future. It is inevitable then that the focus of much research would be lookin[...]

Coupling of optically active materials, or chromphores, to plasmonic nanoparticles represents a new research area which has the ability to produce higher efficiency light[...]