Photo- Electroactive Organic Nanosystems (Tekes,FinNano & RusNano co-operational programme)
Principal Investigators at ASE: Prof. Jukka Lekkala
Duration of the project: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2010
In project Peloton two departments from TUT cooperated alongside of Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography and Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Project where focused on testing photo-electroactive molecules for solar and sensor technologies. Phthatalyanines, porphyrins and other organic molecules where characterized with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), and X-ray crystallography. Several synthesis and self-assembling of functional molecules on glass, quartz, sapphire, ITO, ZnO and gold where made. ZnO and AZO ( ZnO doped with Al) electrodes where used to increase the durability of the organic solar cells. A away developed for ZnO layers that it can be deposited safely on top of organic monomolecular layers. Gaseous ammonia where detected by SPR, SAW and by conductivity measurements. Detective layer in all three options was Copper Porphyrin.
Funding:
Tekes, Biolin Scientific Oy, Bionavis Oy, Sufron Oy
Personnel:
Dhanesh Kattiparambil
Markus Karjalainen
Tomi Ryynänen
Kirsi Nurminen
Cooperation organizations and units:
Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Presentations during January-August 2010:
M. Karjalainen, V. Chukharev, N. V. Tkachenko, J. Lekkala, "Measurement of phthalocyanine binding kinetics with surface plasmon resonance method" poster presentation at annual meeting of European Optical Society EOS. October 26 -29, 2010, Paris, France
PHOTO - ELECTROACTIVE ORGANIC NANOSYSTEMS.pdf
Measurements of phthalocyanine binding kinetics with surface plasmon resonance method.pdf