{"id":154418,"date":"2023-01-05T04:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/more-links-arent-necessarily-better-for-hybrid-nanomaterials"},"modified":"2023-01-05T04:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:22:36","slug":"more-links-arent-necessarily-better-for-hybrid-nanomaterials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/more-links-arent-necessarily-better-for-hybrid-nanomaterials","title":{"rendered":"More links aren\u2019t necessarily better for hybrid nanomaterials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-links-arent-necessarily-better-for-hybrid-nanomaterials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin discovered more isn\u2019t always better when it comes to packing charge-acceptor molecules on the surface of semiconducting nanocrystals.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of organic and inorganic components in hybrid nanomaterials can be tailored to capture, detect, convert or control light in unique ways. Interest in these materials is high, and the<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsphyschemau.2c00018\"> pace of scientific publication<\/a> about them has grown more than tenfold over the past 20 years. For example, they could potentially improve the efficiency of solar power systems by harvesting energy from wavelengths of sunlight\u2014like infrared\u2014that are missed by traditional photovoltaic solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>To create the materials, chemists marry nanocrystals of light-capturing semiconductors with \u201ccharge acceptor\u201d molecules that act as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ligands\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ligands<\/a>, attaching to the semiconductor\u2019s surface and transporting electrons away from the nanocrystals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin discovered more isn\u2019t always better when it comes to packing charge-acceptor molecules on the surface of semiconducting nanocrystals. The combination of organic and inorganic components in hybrid nanomaterials can be tailored to capture, detect, convert or control light in unique ways. Interest in these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}