The future development of chemistry entails energy sustainable and clean alternatives for organic transformations. Sunlight is a good choice for “green” organic transformation due to its abundance and environmentally friendly nature. Our lab is interested in gold-based plasmonic photocatalysts and TiO2-based semiconductor nanomaterials as well as heterogenous catalytic organic transformations under sunlight.
You will find information on solar spectra, including Air Mass 1.5 (AM 1.5) at http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/spectra/ |