Photo-induced electron transfer: From fundamentals to devices

Lectures given by:  

Prof Dirk Guildi (Chair of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 

Prof Shogo Mori (Associate Professor of Faculty of Textile Science and Technology at Shinshu University, Japan)

Prof Keith Gordon (Massey University, New Zealand)

(L to R): Prof David Officer, Prof Dirk Guildi, Prof Keith Gordon, Dr Attila Mozer and Prof Shogo Mori. Prof Officer and Dr Mozer were pleased to welcome these 3 guests to Innovation Campus. Each guest gave highly regarded technical lectures on cutting edge aspects of dye sensitised solar cell technologies.

This workshop attracted 50 participants from ACES (15); University of Wollongong (15); University of Newcastle (5); University of Sydney (4) and Monash University (4).

This lecture series provided the opportunity to understand the fundamentals for photo induced electron transfer process from two distinctly different perspective. 

• Prof Guildi through several examples explained the factors controlling photoinduced electron transfer rate through donor-acceptor type molecular as well as molecule-carbon nano material interfaces. 
• Prof Mori started with deriving the differential equations needed to understand electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of photo-electrochemical solar cells. He drives a constant approach to all the time-domain and frequency domain techniques to study electron lifetime and diffusion in photo-electrochemical cells. He finished with summarising his work on the factors determining electron lifetime in organic dye-sensitised titanium dioxide solar cells. 
• Prof Keith Gordon showed how DFT calculations coupled with Raman spectroscopy can be used to predict and enhance efficient dye-sensitised solar cells.

All speakers are distinguished lectures at their home institution and gave important insights on how to advance ACES research in this area.