{"id":27016,"date":"2016-06-18T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:13:42","slug":"ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast dynamics of semiconductor nanocrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spectroscopy studies of charge transfer from cadmium selenide quantum dots to molecular nickel catalysts reveal unexpectedly fast electron transfer, enabling exceptional photocatalytic hydrogen production.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><\/p>\n<p>A key challenge facing the US is the harvesting, production, storage, and distribution of energy to support economic prosperity with responsible environmental management. Currently, fossil fuels provide more than 80% of the energy consumed in the US (even when significant increases in the use of alternative sources of energy in recent years are accounted for).<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6467-ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals#B1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> For the US Department of Defense in particular, volatility in the price and availability of fossil fuels leads to significant short- and long-term financial, operational, and strategic risks.<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6467-ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals#B2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a> There is, therefore, clearly a need for new alternative sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6467-ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals\">http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6467-ultrafast-dynamics-of-semiconductor-nanocrystals<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectroscopy studies of charge transfer from cadmium selenide quantum dots to molecular nickel catalysts reveal unexpectedly fast electron transfer, enabling exceptional photocatalytic hydrogen production. A key challenge facing the US is the harvesting, production, storage, and distribution of energy to support economic prosperity with responsible environmental management. Currently, fossil fuels provide more than 80% of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,45,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-finance","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61462,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016\/revisions\/61462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}