Towards energy storage
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Solar optical energy may become permanently storable using a new device consisting of a halide-viologen complex housed in an inorganic matrix. Lori A. Vermeulen and Mark E. Thompson developed the device, in which the halide-viologen complex stores the energy by forcing a separation of charge in electron donor-accepted compounds. Although difficulties such as the enhancement of photoresponse remain, this system points the way to the practical storage of solar energy that will allow it to replace fossil fuels.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Controlled growth of microporous crystals nucleated in reverse micelles
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Experimental studies on microporous crystal development suggest the ability of the aqueous phase of organic solvent-dispersed reverse micelles to serve as a medium for crystal nucleation. Crystal morphology can be regulated by this methodology, which results in microcrystals hundreds of nanometers large. The site of crystal nucleation is the interface between the surfactant and the water and growth along the (100) face occurs subsequent to growth along (111) and/or (110) crystal faces.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Storage of light energy by photoelectron transfer across a sensitized zeolite-solution interface
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A new system may lead to the more efficient storage of light or solar energy. The system overcomes the tendency of light to flow back from the acceptor molecule A to the donor molecule D whence it had been derived through electron transfer. The system inhibits this back-reaction by confining the photosensitizing donor, trisbipyridine ruthenium(II) within supercages of zeolite Y and utilizing neutral, zwitter-ionic viologen as the acceptor.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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