2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Nanostructured Photovoltaics

Nanostructured materials offer exciting new opportunities to capture and convert solar photons into electrical energy. This session will cover all aspects of nano-enabled photovoltaics, including interfacial challenges, next generation photophysics, charge transport, light trapping, low cost processing techniques, and device design.

Chair

Michael A. Filler, Georgia Institute of Technology

Co-Chair

William Tisdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presentations

03:15 PM

(193a) Nanostructured Optoelectronics: Using New Energy States and High-Energy Photons
Prashant Nagpal, Vivek Singh, Samuel Goodman

03:33 PM

(193b) Plasma Synthesis of Metal-Sulfide Nanocrystals
Uwe R. Kortshagen, Eray S. Aydil, Elijah Thimsen

03:51 PM

(193c) Layer-By-Layer/M13 Virus Assembled Porous Photoanodes for Efficient Electron Collection in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Po-Yen Chen, Paula T. Hammond, Angela M. Belcher

04:09 PM

(193d) Interface Engineering in Solid-State Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells: Strategies to Improve Charge Collection
Katherine E. Roelofs, Thomas P. Brennan, Troy Q. Yang, Stacey Bent

04:45 PM

(193e) Virus-Templated Three-Dimensional Photoanodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells With Efficient Electron Collection and Plasmon-Enhanced Light Absorption
Po-Yen Chen, Angela M. Belcher, Paula T. Hammond

05:21 PM

(193g) Improved Performance of Polymer Solar Cells By Silica Nanoparticles
Hao Shen, Michael E. Mackay