Development of photovoltaic devices inspired by basic mechanism in photosynthesis

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03527
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Nanomaterials chemistry
• Research Institution: Kyoto Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Asaoka Sadayuki 京都工芸繊維大学, 材料化学系, 准教授 (50336525)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ナノ機能材料

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The amphiphilic liquid-crystalline diblock copolymer having a zinc porphyrin at the junction between hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments affords normally oriented cylindrical phase-segregated nanostructure in the thin film. The GI-SAXS and STEM-EDS measurements elucidates that the zinc porphyrins form circular arrays which are arranged along the cylindrical phase-segregated interface in the regular distance of the smectic layer in the hydrophobic liquid-crystalline matrix. To develop the photovoltaic devices based on this unique porphyrin array, we studied about the control of relative orientation and distance between porphyrins in the array as well as the introduction of electron transport pathway in the hydrophobic matrix domain in the thin film.

Free Research Field

有機合成化学