University of Toronto team establishes principle of energy alignment in breakthrough for sustainable technologies

It’s all about aligning energy but it has nothing to do with massage, alternative medicine, or discussions about planetary energy alignments. According to the Nov. 6, 2011 news item on Nanowerk,

University of Toronto materials science and engineering (MSE) researchers have demonstrated for the first time the key mechanism behind how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials. This discovery is a significant breakthrough in the development of sustainable technologies such as dye-sensitized solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

In research published today in Nature Materials, MSE PhD Candidate Mark T. Greiner and Professor Zheng-Hong Lu, Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Organic Optoelectronics, lay out the blueprint that conclusively establishes the principle of energy alignment at the interface between transition metal oxides and organic molecules.

The article (Universal energy-level alignment of molecules on metal oxides) is behind a paywall but you can view the abstract and some figures. Congratulations to Mark Greiner and Professor Zheng-Hong Lu.

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