Photoenergy Harvesting Organic PV Cells Using Modified Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complex for Energy Harvesting Materials

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to use modified photosynthetic light-harvesting (LH) complexes from modern biosynthetic manufacturing methods of purple photosynthetic bacteria in order to control the direction and orientation of the complex on electrodes for developing dye-sensitized solar PV cells. The advantage of the LH complex is its high efficiency of light-energy conversion throughout the near UV to near IR region and much higher durability using these methods than ordinary LH complex isolated from photosynthetic bacteria. The present generations of PV solar cells are twenty to thirty times too expensive to be cost-effective compared to other existing energy technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 03, 2008
Accession Number
ADA484314

Entities

People

  • Mamoru Nango

Organizations

  • Nagoya Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biochemistry
  • Cells
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Energy Conversion
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Transfer
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Membrane Lipids
  • Molecular Electronics
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Self Assembled Monolayers
  • Self Assembly
  • Solar Cells

Readers

  • Chemistry (specifically Chemical Fluorescence)
  • Software Engineering
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.