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Competitive advantage
- World-record semiconducting quantum dot thin film solar cells using PbS and PbSe
- Creation of highly fluorescent non-toxic nanoparticles, Zn:CuInS2
- Vast experience working with and developing:
- Low cost high efficiency chemically synthesized optoelectronic devices
- A variety of oxide nanoparticles with good semiconducting properties
- Tuneable surface chemistries in high performance nanoparticle systems
- Inorganic Pb-halide perovskite nanoparticles with tuneable fluorescence across the visible spectrum
- Magnetic nanoparticles, Fe3O4
- 2D fluorescent and catalytic nanomaterials, MoS2 and WS2
Impact
- Enables extraction of energy from light in easily implementable/scalable ways, to harvest energy in unconventional locations, e.g. windows. Improvements in electrochemical energy storage. Efficient energy extraction from biomass-derived cellulose, making inefficient bioethanol obsolete
Successful applications
- World leading quantum dot solar cells in PbS and PbSe
- Highest recorded photoluminescence quantum yield from PbS quantum dots (unpublished)
- Lab-scale luminescent solar concentrators, with good performance
- Improved manganese oxide battery electrodes using doped nanoparticles
- Breakdown of cellulose into value-added products
Capabilities and facilities
- Chemical synthesis laboratory suitable for the fabrication of high performance colloidal quantum dot and nanoparticle synthesis by hydrothermal and ligand-based methods
- Fluorometer to measure photoluminescence efficiency across the visible spectrum and into the infra-red (approx. 400-1500 nm)
Our partners
- ClearVue Pty Ltd, Perth
- Natcore Inc, NY, USA
- Jinko Solar, China