Materials Engineering of Integrated Hybrid Spectral Converters for Next Generation Luminescent Solar Devices

Project Information

SPECTRACON

Grant agreement ID: 818762

DOI

10.3030/818762

Project closed

EC signature date 21 January 2019

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 124 593,00

EU contribution

€ 2 124 593,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Interplay between Host Structure, Oxygen Quenching, and Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in Hybrid Polymer Hosts

Author(s): Georgina H. Burgoyne Morris, Larissa Gomes Franca, Abigail R. Collins, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: ACS Applied Optical Materials, Issue 4, 2026, Page(s) 1169-1179, ISSN 2771-9855
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.6c00025

Phase Behavior of Light-Responsive Lyotropic Liquid Crystals for Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage

Author(s): Beatrice E. Jones, Zhihang Wang, Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Charlotte J. C. Edwards-Gayle, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Nathan Cowieson, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 29349-29358, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c09267

Ultra‐Small Air‐Stable Triplet‐Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Nanoparticles for Anti‐Stokes Time‐Resolved Imaging

Author(s): Bolong Zhang; Kieran D. Richards; Beatrice E. Jones; Abigail R. Collins; Rosie Sanders; Sarah R. Needham; Pu Qian; Amoghavarsha Mahadevegowda; Caterina Ducati; Stanley W. Botchway; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 62, 2023, Page(s) e202308602, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202308602

Synthetic factors affecting the stability of methylammonium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals

Author(s): Barry McKenna, Abhinav Shivkumar, Bethan Charles, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 12/21, 2020, Page(s) 11694-11702, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0nr03227a

The Role of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes in Optical Applications

Author(s): Helen Tunstall-Garcia; Bethan L. Charles; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Advanced Photonics Research, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 2000196, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.17863/cam.69753

Self-Healing Polymers for Optical and Photoactive Systems

Author(s): Georgina H. Burgoyne Morris, Leah N. Belson, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Annual Review of Materials Research, Issue 55, 2026, Page(s) 397-419, ISSN 1531-7331
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-matsci-080423-124646

Multilayer films for photon upconversion-driven photoswitching

Author(s): Zhihang Wang, Beatrice E. Jones, Larissa G. Franca, Takashi Lawson, Martyn Jevric, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 19030-19034, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4tc03513e

Comparing the Indoor and Solar Performance of Light‐Concentrating Waveguide‐Encoded Lattice Slim Films

Author(s): Takashi Lawson, Kathryn A. Benincasa, Anjilee Manhas, Fariha Mahmood, Helen Tunstall‐García, Zhihang Wang, Zhongjin Shen, Marina Freitag, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Carbon Energy, Issue 8, 2026, ISSN 2637-9368
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cey2.70106

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Energy Transfer from an Aggregation-Induced Emitter Conjugated Polymer

Author(s): G. Lyu, J. Kendall, I. Meazzini, E Preis, S. Bayseç, U. Scherf, S. Clement, and R. C. Evans
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society

Interplay of Luminophores and Photoinitiators during Synthesis of Bulk and Patterned Luminescent Photopolymer Blends

Author(s): Helen Tunstall-García, Takashi Lawson, Kathryn A. Benincasa, Andrew W. Prentice, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 6314-6322, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c00484

Laboratory Protocols for Measuring and Reporting the Performance of Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Michael G. Debije; Rachel C. Evans; Gianmarco Griffini
Published in: Energy and Environmental Science, Issue 5, 2021, Page(s) 493-301, ISSN 1754-5706
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.17863/cam.69756

Structural insights of mechanochemically amorphised MIL-125-NH₂

Author(s): Emily V. Shaw, Celia Castillo-Blas, Timothy Lambden, Beatriz de Santos, Bethan Turner, Giulio I. Lampronti, Joonatan E. M. Laulainen, Georgina P. Robertson, Ashleigh M. Chester, Chumei Ye, Shaoliang Guan, Joshua K. G. Karlsson, Valentina Martinez, Ivana Brekalo, Bahar Karadeniz, Silvia Cabrera, Lauren N. McHugh, Krunoslav Užarević, Jose Alemán, Alberto Fraile, Rachel C. Evans, Paul A. Midgley,
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 61, 2025, Page(s) 5019-5022, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc06320a

Flexible Blue-Light Fiber Amplifiers to Improve Signal Coverage in Advanced Lighting Communication Systems

Author(s): Ana R. Bastos, Guanpeng Lyu, Tiago Silvério, Paulo S. André, Rachel C. Evans, Rute A.S. Ferreira
Published in: Cell Reports Physical Science, Issue 1/4, 2020, Page(s) 100041, ISSN 2666-3864
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100041

Size and shape matter for micellar catalysis using light-responsive azobenzene surfactants

Author(s): Camille Blayo, Beatrice E. Jones, Michael J. Bennison, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Issue 23, 2024, Page(s) 138-144, ISSN 1477-0520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4ob01587h

Thermoresponsive Host Polymer Matrix for Self-Healing Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Elisavet Tatsi; Giovanni Fortunato; Benedetta Rigatelli; Guanpeng Lyu; Stefano Turri; Rachel C. Evans; Gianmarco Griffini
Published in: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2574-0962
Publisher: ACS Applied Energy Materials
DOI: 10.17863/cam.49961

Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Bolong Zhang; Guanpeng Lyu; Elaine A. Kelly; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 2201160, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202201160

Ambient solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion in ureasil organic–inorganic hybrid hosts

Author(s): Abigail R. Collins, Bolong Zhang, Michael J. Bennison, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 6310-6318, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4tc00562g

Aggregation-induced emission from silole-based lumophores embedded in organic–inorganic hybrid hosts

Author(s): Guanpeng Lyu; Thomas J. F. Southern; Bethan L. Charles; Maxime Roger; Philippe Gerbier; Sébastien Clément; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 13914-13925, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1tc02794h

Organic Polymer Hosts for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Systems

Author(s): Michael J. Bennison; Abigail R. Collins; Bolong Zhang; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 54, 2021, Page(s) 5287-5303, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00133

Ray-Trace Modeling to Characterize Efficiency of Unconventional Luminescent Solar Concentrator Geometries

Author(s): Shomik Verma; Daniel J Farrell; Rachel C. Evans
Published in: ACS Applied Optical Materials, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 1012-1025, ISSN 2771-9855
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.3c00074

Methacrylate-based copolymers as tunable hosts for triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion

Author(s): Michael J. Bennison, Abigail R. Collins, Larissa Gomes Franca, Georgina H. Burgoyne Morris, Niamh Willis-Fox, Ronan Daly, Joshua K. G. Karlsson, Bethan L. Charles, Rachel C. Evans
Published in: Materials Advances, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 1089-1096, ISSN 2633-5409
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/d4ma01221f

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in Solid-State Organic-Inorganic Ureasil Polymer Hosts

Author(s): Abigail R. Collins
Published in: 2024
Publisher: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.17863/cam.113056

Design of high-performance luminescent solar concentrators based on aggregation-induced emitters in organic-inorganic hybrid waveguides

Author(s): Guanpeng Lyu
Published in: 2022
Publisher: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.17863/cam.83212

Design and Characterisation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials for Luminescence Downshifting Devices

Author(s): Helen Tunstall García
Published in: 2025
Publisher: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.17863/cam.117427