At the heart of our mission lies the use of cost-effective thin film molecular materials with flexible geometries. These materials can be colorful, translucent or even transparent and require only minimal quantities, making them a common denominator in our approach.
By harnessing the power of these advanced materials, we are pushing the boundaries of solar energy conversion beyond its current limits towards a more sustainable and efficient energy future.
Latest Publications:
Christoph Brabec Visits Institute for Clean Energy at City University Hong Kong
Our FAU Solar speaker, Prof. Christoph Brabec, recently visited the Institute for Clean Energy at the City University of Hong…
Molecular Acenes for Light Capture, Conversion, and Storage
Phillip M. Greißel, Anna-Sophie Wollny, Yifan Bo, Dominik Thiel, René Weiß, Dirk M. Guldi Efficient photovoltaics (PV) require capturing and…
Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone
Researchers from FAU Solar and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications provide important guidance for designing novel functional materials…
Reversible C═N Bond Formation Controls Charge-Separation in an Aza-Diarylethene Photoswitch
Sacherer, M., Gracheva, S., Maid, H., Placht, C., Hampel, F., Dube, H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 14, 9575–9582…
Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone
Bo, Y., Zhang, H., Li, Y., Reva, Y., Xie, L., Guldi, D.M. Angewandte Chemie, 136(13), e202313936 In this work, we…
An insight into a combined effect of backsheet and EVA encapsulant on field degradation of PV modules
Buerhop, C., Pickel, T., Stroyuk, O., Hauch, J., Peters, I. M., Energy Science & Engineering 2023, 11, 4168-4180. https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.1572 Polymer…
Dark State of the Thiele Hydrocarbon: Efficient Solvatochromic Emission from a Nonpolar Centrosymmetric Singlet Diradicaloid
Punzi, A., Dai, Y., Dibenedetto, C. N., Mesto, E., Schingaro, E., Ullrich, T., Striccoli, M., Guldi, D. M., Negri, F.,…
Breaking New Ground in Small-Molecule Semiconductor Synthesis: FAU Solar’s High-Throughput Advancement
The synthesis of solution-processable small-molecule semiconductors presents a unique opportunity for accelerating innovation in solution processed photovoltaics (PV). This recent…
Towards understanding the competition of electron and energy transfer in “molecular” nanographenes on the example of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
Beneventi, G. M., Krug, M., Reger, D., Jux, N., Guldi, D. M., Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews…
Tetracene Dimers: A Platform for Intramolecular Down- and Up-conversion
Bo, Y., Hou, Y., Thiel, D., Weiß, R., Clark, T., Ferguson, M. J., Tykwinski, R. R., Guldi, D. M., Journal…
Interfullerene Electronic Interactions and Excited-State Dynamics in Fullerene Dumbbell Conjugates
Chai, Y., Liu, L., Xu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, C., Bo, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Weng, Y., Guldi, D.…
One-Pot Synthesis and Excited-State Dynamics of Null Exciton-Coupled Diketopyrrolopyrroles Oligo-Grids
Bo, Y., Hou, P., Wan, J., Cao, H., Liu, Y., Xie, L., Guldi, D. M., Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2302664.…
Sensitized Singlet Fission in Rigidly Linked Axial and Peripheral Pentacene-Subphthalocyanine Conjugates
Gotfredsen, H., Thiel, D., Greißel, P. M., Chen, L., Krug, M., Papadopoulos, I., Ferguson, M. J., Nielsen, M. B., Torres,…
Enhancing Built-in Electric Fields for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Encapsulating C60 Fullerene into Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks
Liu, L., Meng, H., Chai, Y., Chen, X., Xu, J., Liu, X., Liu, W., Guldi, D. M., Zhu, Y., Angew.…
Supramolecular Recognition within a Nanosized “Buckytrap” That Exhibits Substantial Photoconductivity
Sen, S., Ishiwari, F., Kaur, R., Ishida, M., Ray, D., Kikuchi, K., Mori, T., Bähring, S., Lynch, V. M., Saeki,…
Anthracene-Fused Oligo-BODIPYs: A New Class of π-Extended NIR-Absorbing Materials
Labella, J., Durán-Sampedro, G., Krishna, S., Martínez-Díaz, M. V., Guldi, D. M., Torres, T., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62,…
Solution Atomic Layer Deposition of Smooth, Continuous, Crystalline Metal–Organic Framework Thin Films
Maïssa K. S. Barr, Soheila Nadiri, Dong-Hui Chen, Peter G. Weidler, Sebastian Bochmann, Helmut Baumgart, Julien Bachmann, and Engelbert Redel,…
Prof. Dr. Henry Dube
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Organic Chemistry I
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-65571
- Email: henry.dube@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Julien Bachmann
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Lehrstuhl für Chemistry of thin film materials (Prof. Dr. Bachmann)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70551
- Email: julien.bachmann@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Physical Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Guldi)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-27340
- Email: dirk.guldi@fau.de
Dr. Maria Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda Rodriguez
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Organic Chemistry II (Prof. Dr. Hirsch)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-65646
- Email: eugenia.perez-ojeda@fau.de