{"id":223883,"date":"2025-10-24T04:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/molecular-dam-stops-energy-leaks-in-nanocrystals-to-boost-efficiency-of-light-driven-reactions"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:24","slug":"molecular-dam-stops-energy-leaks-in-nanocrystals-to-boost-efficiency-of-light-driven-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/molecular-dam-stops-energy-leaks-in-nanocrystals-to-boost-efficiency-of-light-driven-reactions","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Molecular dam\u2019 stops energy leaks in nanocrystals to boost efficiency of light-driven reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-dam-stops-energy-leaks-in-nanocrystals-to-boost-efficiency-of-light-driven-reactions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has found a way to slow energy leaks that have impeded the use of tiny nanocrystals in light-driven chemical and energy applications.<\/p>\n<p>As described in an article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.chempr.2025.102760\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Chem<\/i>, the team has used a molecule that strongly binds to the nanocrystal\u2019s surface, essentially acting like a dam to hold back the energy stored in the charge-separated state formed after light absorption. This technique extends the lifetime of the charge separation to the longest recorded for these materials, providing a pathway to improved efficiencies and more opportunities to put this energy to work in chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California Irvine, and Fort Lewis College were led by RASEI Fellow Gordana Dukovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has found a way to slow energy leaks that have impeded the use of tiny nanocrystals in light-driven chemical and energy applications. As described in an article published in the journal Chem, the team has used a molecule that strongly binds to the nanocrystal\u2019s surface, essentially acting like a dam to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223883","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}