Cadranel, Alejandro

Dr. Cadranel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Physical Chemistry I (FAU) in Germany, and a group leader at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Google Scholar

Our research pursues climate change mitigation, exploring diverse ideas around solar-to-chemical energy conversion.

 

Carbon Nanodots for Solar Fuel Production

We synthesize and study precious-metal-free molecular materials based on carbon nanodots in photocatalytic energy conversion schemes. These materials, which include catalytically-active molecular structural features, are obtained from cheap and eco-friendly precursors and are promising for sustainable solar fuel production.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c07049

 

 

Blocking Dissipation in Solar Energy Conversion

Most chromophores waste a considerable portion of the absorbed energy in dissipative processes before energy conversion reactions are triggered from the lowest excited state. We aim to identify different dissipation pathways in molecular and supramolecular donor-acceptor systems and block them by tuning excited-state electronic coupling.

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1760783/v1_covered.pdf?c=1656527736

 

 

Excited-State Mixed Valence

Excited-state mixed valence systems are ideal models to study excited-state electronic coupling. They show excited-state IVCT bands and can be classified according to the Robin-Day-Meyer, like ground state analogs, but they also present important differences that must be taken into account in the design of energy conversion schemes. We prepare and study excited-state mixed valence systems using ultrafast transient spectroscopies.

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cphc.202200384