NANOSTRUCTURED AND PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS FOR SOLAR PHOTON CONVERSION

edited by Mary D Archer (Imperial College, UK) & Arthur J Nozik (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)

Table of Contents (48k)
Preface (48k)
Chapter 8: Dye-Sensitised Mesoscopic Solar Cells (1,609k)

In this book, expert authors describe advanced solar photon conversion approaches that promise highly efficient photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells with sophisticated architectures on the one hand, and plastic photovoltaic coatings that are inexpensive enough to be disposable on the other. Their leitmotifs include light-induced exciton generation, junction architectures that lead to efficient exciton dissociation, and charge collection by percolation through mesoscale phases. Photocatalysis is closely related to photoelectrochemistry, and the fundamentals of both disciplines are covered in this volume.

 
Contents:
  • Overview (M D Archer)
  • Fundamentals in Photoelectrochemistry (R J D Miller & R Memming)
  • Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum-Confined Structures (A J Nozik)
  • Fundamentals and Applications in Electron-Transfer Reactions (M D Archer)
  • Fundamentals in Metal-Oxide Heterogeneous Photocatalysis (N Serpone & A V Emeline)
  • Inorganic Extended-Junction Devices (R Könenkamp)
  • Organic Donor–Acceptor Heterojunction Solar Cells (J J Benson-Smith & J Nelson)
  • Dye-Sensitised Mesoscopic Solar Cells (M Grätzel & J R Durrant)
  • Semiconductor/Liquid Junction Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells (S Maldonado et al.)
  • Photoelectrochemical Storage Cells (S Licht & G Hodes)
  • Measuring Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Dynamics (X Ai & T Lian)
  • Experimental Techniques in Photoelectrochemistry (L M Peter & H Tributsch)
 
Readership: Chemists, physicists, materials scientists and hydrogen energy specialists.
 
“This book provides an excellent overview of nano-structured and photochemical systems for solar photon energy conversion … a historic overview is given as well — to an extent difficult to find elsewhere … It provides access to the latest findings in these rapidly developing fields and is certainly suitable for PhD students, and researchers with backgrounds both in physics and chemistry.”
Dr Christian Könrgstein
European Patent Office
 
780pp    Pub. date: Aug 2008  
ISBN:   978-1-86094-255-6
1-86094-255-5
   US$208 / £112

 


780pp    Pub. date: Aug 2008  
ISBN:   978-1-84816-154-2(ebook)
1-84816-154-9(ebook)
   US$270