TY - JOUR
T1 - Supramolecular Energy Materials
AU - Dumele, Oliver
AU - Chen, Jiahao
AU - Passarelli, James V.
AU - Stupp, Samuel I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is part of the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame article series, which recognizes the excellent contributions of leading researchers to the field of materials science. The experimental work on supramolecular energy materials carried out in the authors' laboratory was funded by a grant from U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE‐FG02‐00ER45810, a grant from the National Science Foundation under award number DMR‐1508731, and the Center for Bio‐Inspired Energy Science (CBES), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (DOE‐BES) under award number DE‐SC0000989. O.D. acknowledges funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) via an Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship (P2EZP2_168881) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany) for a postdoctoral fellowship (LPDS 2016‐4). The authors are also grateful to Dr. Liam Palmer for helpful discussions and Mark Seniw for graphic designs used in this contribution.
Funding Information:
This article is part of the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame article series, which recognizes the excellent contributions of leading researchers to the field of materials science. The experimental work on supramolecular energy materials carried out in the authors' laboratory was funded by a grant from U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE-FG02-00ER45810, a grant from the National Science Foundation under award number DMR-1508731, and the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (DOE-BES) under award number DE-SC0000989. O.D. acknowledges funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) via an Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship (P2EZP2_168881) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany) for a postdoctoral fellowship (LPDS 2016-4). The authors are also grateful to Dr. Liam Palmer for helpful discussions and Mark Seniw for graphic designs used in this contribution.
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PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Self-assembly is a bioinspired strategy to craft materials for renewable and clean energy technologies. In plants, the alignment and assembly of the light-harvesting protein machinery in the green leaf optimize the ability to efficiently convert light from the sun to form chemical bonds. In artificial systems, strategies based on self-assembly using noncovalent interactions offer the possibility to mimic this functional correlation among molecules to optimize photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and energy storage. One of the long-term objectives of the field described here as supramolecular energy materials is to learn how to design soft materials containing light-harvesting assemblies and catalysts to generate fuels and useful chemicals. Supramolecular energy materials also hold great potential in the design of systems for photovoltaics in which intermolecular interactions in self-assembled structures, for example, in electron donor and acceptor phases, maximize charge transport and avoid exciton recombination. Possible pathways to integrate organic and inorganic structures by templating strategies and electrodeposition to create materials relevant to energy challenges including photoconductors and supercapacitors are also described. The final topic discussed is the synthesis of hybrid perovskites in which organic molecules are used to modify both structure and functions, which may include chemical stability, photovoltaics, and light emission.
AB - Self-assembly is a bioinspired strategy to craft materials for renewable and clean energy technologies. In plants, the alignment and assembly of the light-harvesting protein machinery in the green leaf optimize the ability to efficiently convert light from the sun to form chemical bonds. In artificial systems, strategies based on self-assembly using noncovalent interactions offer the possibility to mimic this functional correlation among molecules to optimize photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and energy storage. One of the long-term objectives of the field described here as supramolecular energy materials is to learn how to design soft materials containing light-harvesting assemblies and catalysts to generate fuels and useful chemicals. Supramolecular energy materials also hold great potential in the design of systems for photovoltaics in which intermolecular interactions in self-assembled structures, for example, in electron donor and acceptor phases, maximize charge transport and avoid exciton recombination. Possible pathways to integrate organic and inorganic structures by templating strategies and electrodeposition to create materials relevant to energy challenges including photoconductors and supercapacitors are also described. The final topic discussed is the synthesis of hybrid perovskites in which organic molecules are used to modify both structure and functions, which may include chemical stability, photovoltaics, and light emission.
KW - energy materials
KW - photocatalysis
KW - self-assembly
KW - solar cells
KW - supramolecular chemistry
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U2 - 10.1002/adma.201907247
DO - 10.1002/adma.201907247
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32162428
AN - SCOPUS:85081967610
VL - 32
JO - Advanced Materials
JF - Advanced Materials
SN - 0935-9648
IS - 17
M1 - 1907247
ER -