Inspired by plants and bacteria, German researchers develop a dye-based light harvesting system that can convert 38 percent of light into fluorescence.
Inspired by arrangement of dyes in plants and bacteria, researchers replicated the arrangement using four dyes and found significant improvements.Researchers at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany, have designed a novel light-harvesting system that can more efficiently use solar energy by absorbing the entire visible light spectrum.
They are made from inorganic semiconductor materials such as silicon, and although they are panchromatic and able to absorb the entire spectrum of visible light, their absorbance is very low. The researchers were inspired by naturally occurring systems, such as plants and bacteria, which can use a broad spectrum of light for
The researchers then tried to replicate the complex arrangement of dyes in naturally occurring systems to develop a highly efficient new light-harvesting system. The prototype light-harvesting system has been dubbed URPB after the wavelengths that the four dye components can absorb – U for ultraviolet, R for red, P for purple, and B for blue.
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