报告题目：Supramolecular Architectures for Light Harvesting and Energy Conversion – can we accomplish Artificial Photosynthesis?
报 告 人：Frank Würthner教授（Center for Nanosystems Chemistry & Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg）
邀 请 人：马於光 教授
报告时间：2019年3月6日（周三） 下午3:00-5:00
报告地点：北区科技园1号楼发光材料与器件国重N308A报告厅

报告简介：

Natural photosynthesis provides a blueprint for a future technology that may deliver clean energy for a sustainable hydrogen and/or carbon based cycle. In natural photosynthesis various molecular components are properly assembled to accomplish light harvesting, charge separation and catalytic water splitting into hydrogen (NADH) and oxygen. Understanding the operating principles of the natural photosynthetic apparatus and designing artificial counterparts that accomplish the elemental steps of natural photosynthesis are therefore topics of considerable scientific interest [1]. In this lecture I will highlight recent achievements of our laboratory with regard to light harvesting and exciton transport in dye aggregates [2], symmetry-breaking charge separation in perylene bisimide cyclophanes [3] and photo-driven water oxidation by macrocycles bearing three ruthenium centers [4] and ruthenium-functionalized cadmium CdS nanorods [5].