TY - GEN
T1 - Progress and challenges in solar energy conversion using semiconductor/liquid junctions
AU - Lewis, Nathan S.
PY - 2007/12/28
Y1 - 2007/12/28
N2 - Semiconductor/liquid contacts provide the best known wet chemical means for converting and storing sunlight into chemical fuels and/or electrical power. Good progress has been made recently in understanding intefacial electron transfer processes, in evaluating the properties of nanoscale, nanostructured metal contacts on semiconductors, in functionalization of certain semiconductor surfaces, including Si and InP, and in the use of nanocrystalline mesoporous materials such as dye-sensitized titania. The presentation will focus on these topics and will highlight the outstanding problems that need to be solved to obtain a viable, inexpensive, practical solar energy conversion device from such systems.
AB - Semiconductor/liquid contacts provide the best known wet chemical means for converting and storing sunlight into chemical fuels and/or electrical power. Good progress has been made recently in understanding intefacial electron transfer processes, in evaluating the properties of nanoscale, nanostructured metal contacts on semiconductors, in functionalization of certain semiconductor surfaces, including Si and InP, and in the use of nanocrystalline mesoporous materials such as dye-sensitized titania. The presentation will focus on these topics and will highlight the outstanding problems that need to be solved to obtain a viable, inexpensive, practical solar energy conversion device from such systems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37349033586
SN - 084127438X
SN - 9780841274389
T3 - ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
BT - 233rd ACS National Meeting, Abstracts of Scientific Papers
T2 - 233rd ACS National Meeting
Y2 - 25 March 2007 through 29 March 2007
ER -