Molecular Design of Thin Film Optoelectronic Materials for Solar Cells

摘要

Chemistry is expected to play a prominent role in advancing the discoveries needed to unlock the promise of alternative and renewable energy sources. Building on the analogy of the late Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley, who described chemists in this pursuit as "nurturers of the garden of science and engineering", the pages of the Journal of the American Chemical Society have become a showcase where harvests of the field are put on display. The abundance of recent progress in photovoltaic materials makes now an appropriate time to collect and arrange the fruits of these labors into a cornucopia we call JACS Select, the name visitors to the JACS Beta Web site have chosen for the Journal's virtual issues.