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    The document proposes using a graphene-azobenzene hybrid material for solar thermal fuels. Solar fuels use photoactive molecules that change state in response to light to store solar energy in chemical bonds. Existing examples like ruthenium complexes are rare and expensive. Azobenzene was chosen because it has the right balance of energy storage and activation energy. Graphene was selected as the base material due to its large surface area and wrinkled texture, which would maximize the number of photoactive azobenzene molecules. Computational modeling was used to generate an azobenzene-graphene hybrid structure. The results suggest this hybrid nanostructure could significantly increase both the energy storage capacity per molecule and

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    The document proposes using a graphene-azobenzene hybrid material for solar thermal fuels. Solar fuels use photoactive molecules that change state in response to light to store solar energy in chemical bonds. Existing examples like ruthenium complexes are rare and expensive. Azobenzene was chosen because it has the right balance of energy storage and activation energy. Graphene was selected as the base material due to its large surface area and wrinkled texture, which would maximize the number of photoactive azobenzene molecules. Computational modeling was used to generate an azobenzene-graphene hybrid structure. The results suggest this hybrid nanostructure could significantly increase both the energy storage capacity per molecule and

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    Solar Thermal Fuels

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    The document proposes using a graphene-azobenzene hybrid material for solar thermal fuels. Solar fuels use photoactive molecules that change state in response to light to store solar energy in chemical bonds. Existing examples like ruthenium complexes are rare and expensive. Azobenzene was chosen because it has the right balance of energy storage and activation energy. Graphene was selected as the base material due to its large surface area and wrinkled texture, which would maximize the number of photoactive azobenzene molecules. Computational modeling was used to generate an azobenzene-graphene hybrid structure. The results suggest this hybrid nanostructure could significantly increase both the energy storage capacity per molecule and

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    Solar Thermal FuelUsing grapheneazobenzene hybrid

    Presented by:EKTA PATIL GOPIKA.K

    Solar Thermal Fuels


    Solar fuels photoactive molecule stores solar energy in molecules that change state in response to light.

    Best example :tetracarbonly-diruthenium fulvalene ruthenium rare and expensive volumetric energy density smaller

    Fig:1:- generalised solar fuel using Carbon nanotube

    how photoactive molecules store solar energy

    Azobenzene -Carbon Nanotube


    Why Azobenzene- carbon nanotube
    Right balance between H & Activation Energy

    higher energy-storage capacity and a longer storage lifetime can be designed into the Azobenzene system

    Graphene
    a single layer of carbon in which the atoms are arranged in hexagons.

    Why Graphene
    rough and wrinkled surface texture of Graphene surface area geometry

    EXPERIMENT
    Computations were performed using Quantum Espresso code convergence of total energies & electronic properties for Azobenzene adsorbed Graphene is done generating Azobenzene Graphene hybrid structure in material studio

    All atoms in the Graphene & the adsorbate are fully relaxed until the force on each is less than 0.01 eV/.

    Conclusion
    An effort was made to propose a new approach to the design of solar thermal fuels so that the photoactive behavior of well known photo isomer with the structural stability and nanoscale properties of Graphene, one obtains a set of highly tunable hybrid nanostructures that exhibit large increases in both the energy storage capacity per molecule and the number of photoactive molecules per volume.

    References
    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/nano tube-solar-battery/ Azobenzene-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes As High-Energy Density Solar Thermal Fuels published by Alexie M. Kolpak* and Jeffrey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States https://www.google.co.in/search?q=solar+fuel&hl =en&biw=1366&bih=643&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch& tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jjeMT5ymFa2aiQext OTiCQ&ved=0CF4QsAQ

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