Materials

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:

An insight into a combined effect of backsheet and EVA encapsulant on field degradation of PV modules

14. September 2023

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 components, in particular, backsheets (BSs) and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulants,…

Dark State of the Thiele Hydrocarbon: Efficient Solvatochromic Emission from a Nonpolar Centrosymmetric Singlet Diradicaloid

6. September 2023

Punzi, A., Dai, Y., Dibenedetto, C. N., Mesto, E., Schingaro, E., Ullrich, T., Striccoli, M., Guldi, D. M., Negri, F., Farinola, G. M., Blasi, D., Journal of the American Chemical…

Breaking New Ground in Small-Molecule Semiconductor Synthesis: FAU Solar’s High-Throughput Advancement

4. September 2023

The synthesis of solution-processable small-molecule semiconductors presents a unique opportunity for accelerating innovation in solution processed photovoltaics (PV). This recent breakthrough in small-molecule semiconductor research by FAU Solar members has…

Towards understanding the competition of electron and energy transfer in “molecular” nanographenes on the example of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene

24. August 2023

Beneventi, G. M., Krug, M., Reger, D., Jux, N., Guldi, D. M., Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews 2023, 56, 100602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2023.100602 Bottom-up strategies have allowed the synthesis…

Tetracene Dimers: A Platform for Intramolecular Down- and Up-conversion

2. August 2023

Bo, Y., Hou, Y., Thiel, D., Weiß, R., Clark, T., Ferguson, M. J., Tykwinski, R. R., Guldi, D. M., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 18260-18275. 10.1021/jacs.3c02417 Photon…

Interfullerene Electronic Interactions and Excited-State Dynamics in Fullerene Dumbbell Conjugates

13. June 2023

Chai, Y., Liu, L., Xu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, C., Bo, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Weng, Y., Guldi, D. M., Wu, B., Wang, C., Journal of the American Chemical…

One-Pot Synthesis and Excited-State Dynamics of Null Exciton-Coupled Diketopyrrolopyrroles Oligo-Grids

8. June 2023

Bo, Y., Hou, P., Wan, J., Cao, H., Liu, Y., Xie, L., Guldi, D. M., Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2302664. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202302664 Exciton coupling in molecular aggregates plays a vital role…

Sensitized Singlet Fission in Rigidly Linked Axial and Peripheral Pentacene-Subphthalocyanine Conjugates

21. April 2023

Gotfredsen, H., Thiel, D., Greißel, P. M., Chen, L., Krug, M., Papadopoulos, I., Ferguson, M. J., Nielsen, M. B., Torres, T., Clark, T., Guldi, D. M., Tykwinski, R. R., Journal…

Enhancing Built-in Electric Fields for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Encapsulating C60 Fullerene into Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks

14. January 2023

Liu, L., Meng, H., Chai, Y., Chen, X., Xu, J., Liu, X., Liu, W., Guldi, D. M., Zhu, Y., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202217897. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202217897 High-efficiency photocatalysts based…