{"id":28318,"date":"2016-07-26T20:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:43","slug":"quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation","title":{"rendered":"Quantum dot photosensitizers as a new paradigm for photochemical activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting work on solar energy and Q-dot photosensitizers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interfacial triplet-triplet energy transfer is used to significantly extend the exciton lifetime of cadmium selenide nanocrystals in an experimental demonstration of their molecular-like photochemistry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><\/p>\n<p>Photosensitizers are an essential component of solar energy conversion processes, in which they are used to generate the highly reactive excited states that enable energy conversion (e.g., photochemical upconversion).<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6592-quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation#B1\"><sup>1, 2<\/sup><\/a> Typically, molecular triplet photosensitizers are used for such applications, but to improve the solar energy conversion process, the identification and preparation of next-generation triplet photosensitizers is required. However, the design of such photosensitizers\u2014suitable for solar energy conversion and photocatalytic applications\u2014remains a challenge.<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6592-quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation#B3\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6592-quantum-dot-photosensitizers-as-a-new-paradigm-for-photochemical-activation\">http:\/\/spie.org\/newsroom\/6592-quantum-dot-photosensitizers-a...activation<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting work on solar energy and Q-dot photosensitizers. Interfacial triplet-triplet energy transfer is used to significantly extend the exciton lifetime of cadmium selenide nanocrystals in an experimental demonstration of their molecular-like photochemistry. Photosensitizers are an essential component of solar energy conversion processes, in which they are used to generate the highly reactive excited states that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28318","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=28318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61035,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28318\/revisions\/61035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}