Light-Harvesting Nanohybrid Team (IMAGE)

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Light-Harvesting Nanohybrid Team

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Mingxing Li (sitting) and Mircea Cotlet (left) of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials and Jia-Shiang Chen of Stony Brook University's Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department used a self-assembly technique based on the interactions between electrically charged particles (opposite charges attract; like charges repel) to create a "nanohybrid" structure that contains both biologically derived and nonliving materials. Compared to the nonhybrid counterparts, the nanohybrid shows increased energy transfer efficiency and photoresponsivity, or response to light -- ideal characteristics for solar cell applications.

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