Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100433

Funded Activity Summary

Optimising light harvesting using quantum transport. Observations of wavelike energy transport in photosynthetic systems have exposed the role of quantum mechanics in natural light harvesting. This project is a study of how light harvesting functions for an incoherent source like sunlight. In sunlight, energy transport occurs at steady state, a dramatically simpler regime than when a coherent source like lasers are used. This project will exploit this simplification to develop new methods for treating light harvesting in sunlight and apply them to a variety of natural and artificial systems. It will clarify how bacteria and plants harvest sunlight and lead to design principles that will enable artificial light harvesting to take advantage of quantum effects.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2014

End Date: 15-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $395,220.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Transport Properties and Non-Equilibrium Processes | Radiation and Matter | Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified | Radiation and Matter | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy | Transport Properties and Non-Equilibrium Processes

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