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WEPOF

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Watching Excitons in Photoactive Organic Frameworks
One of the most urgent challenges our society is facing nowadays is the development of an energy economy based on renewable resources. A fascinating approach is artificial photosynthesis, where solar energy is exploited to produce... One of the most urgent challenges our society is facing nowadays is the development of an energy economy based on renewable resources. A fascinating approach is artificial photosynthesis, where solar energy is exploited to produce chemical fuels out of carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. While recent technological advances are bringing us closer to the goal of developing efficient light-harvesting platforms, a fundamental gap about the atomic-scale mechanisms remains to be filled. Understanding the atomistic details of the processes involved is of tremendous importance to drive a rational design of photoactive materials. Relevant questions include: how do electrical charges move upon light absorption? How does the atomic structure influence the ability to harvest light? Why do some materials work better than others? Answering to questions as these represents an extraordinary demanding task, since excitons, the most fundamental light-induced excitations, composed of bound electron-hole pairs, are only transient short-lived entities occurring in complex materials. The WEPOF project aims at enabling the direct experimental observation of excitons in photoactive covalent organic frameworks, providing a fundamental understanding of photoexcited states in energy materials. While the structural complexity of organic frameworks will be tackled by individuating elementary functional units, allowing rationalizing their structure-function relations, the development of unique scanning probe microscopy methods will enable to watch excitons on their relevant length- and timescales. The understanding of excitonic processes will allow steering the design of photoactive materials with improved energy conversion efficiency, providing a conceptual framework for next-generation material platforms for artificial photosynthesis. ver más
31/08/2027
UIBK
1M€
Perfil tecnológico estimado
Duración del proyecto: 66 meses Fecha Inicio: 2022-02-10
Fecha Fin: 2027-08-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-02-10
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2021-STG: ERC STARTING GRANTS
Cerrada hace 3 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 1M€
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Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5