Laboratory of Molecular Research for Solar Energy Innovations

Overview

Research interests of SOLEIL Group focus on design, synthesis & application of nanomaterials and advanced architectures for solar energy technologies and photo-driven biocatalytic  applications. However, now, it starts to be obvious that with deep knowledge on synthesis and functionalization of metal oxide nano-architectures for solar energy conversion we can start to ask new questions about underlying understanding of elementary chemical reactions and photoelectrochemical processes and finally address them by new ultrafast spectroscopic and in-situ conceptual techniques allowing to directly investigate charge transfer kinetics phenomena  We believe, that this conceptual approach to the molecular systems to identify the major bottlenecks hampering the efficiency of current solar systems has a bright future.

Research Topics:

Investigation of the combined electro-photo-reduction of CO₂ at selected catalysts  taking in parallel, profit from the extra activation of the process provided by the plasmonic nanostructures

Identification and recognition of the kinetic processes governing the performance of the earth abundant materials and their integrated systems with use of the ultrafast TAS approach (combined charge carrier dynamics & kinetic analysis)

Identification & synthesis of radically new photoactive materials

Design, construction & understanding of a sensing mechanism of the photoelectrochemical biosensors based on the polycrystalline semiconductors and demonstrate a proof of concept through the quantification of the biosensing activity and efficiency of the overall PEC sensor for a number of selected bioanalytes.

Eksplorację nowych podejść do aktywacji redukcji cząsteczki CO₂ wspomaganej energią słoneczną oraz kombinatoryjnymi technikami elektrochemicznymi.

• Identyfikację, projektowanie, modelowanie, syntezę oraz wytwarzanie nanostruktur, nowych materiałów półprzewodnikowych.
• Konstrukcję oraz charakteryzację układów do detekcji fotoelektrochemicznej biomolekuł oraz immunosensorów.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4811-1143