PEPDIODE

Peptide-based diodes for solar cells

Coordinatore	Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie    more  Organization address address: Kaiserstrasse 12 city: Karlsruhe postcode: 76131 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Natascha Cognome: Wallburg Email: send email Telefono: +49 721 608 25414 Fax: +49 721 608 25403
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	3˙643˙131 €
EC contributo	2˙749˙966 €
Programma	FP7-ENERGY Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy
Code Call	FP7-ENERGY-2010-FET
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-08-01   -   2015-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie  Organization address address: Kaiserstrasse 12 city: Karlsruhe postcode: 76131 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Natascha Cognome: Wallburg Email: send email Telefono: +49 721 608 25414 Fax: +49 721 608 25403	DE (Karlsruhe)	coordinator	870˙920.75
2	UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE  Organization address address: Boulevard Charles Livon 58 city: Marseille postcode: 13284 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Magali Cognome: Niox Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 42172494 Fax: +33 4 42172546	FR (Marseille)	participant	580˙674.25
3	MIGAL GALILEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD  Organization address address: SOUTH INDUSTRIAL ZONE city: KIRYAT SHEMONA postcode: 11016 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Libat Cognome: Malka Email: send email Telefono: +972 46953510 Fax: +972 46944980	IL (KIRYAT SHEMONA)	participant	353˙040.00
4	WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE  Organization address address: HERZL STREET 234 city: REHOVOT postcode: 7610001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Talia Cognome: Tzahor Email: send email Telefono: +972 8 934 4026 Fax: +972 8934 4165	IL (REHOVOT)	participant	243˙026.00
5	INSTITUT FUER MIKROELEKTRONIK STUTTGART  Organization address address: ALLMANDRING STRASSE 30A city: STUTTGART postcode: 70569 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Harald Cognome: Richter Email: send email Telefono: 4971120000000 Fax: 4971120000000	DE (STUTTGART)	participant	242˙880.00
6	PEPperPRINT GmbH  Organization address address: Schlossweg 9 city: Wiesloch postcode: 69168 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Volker Cognome: Stadler Email: send email Telefono: +49 6221 7264488 Fax: +49 6221 7264475	DE (Wiesloch)	participant	229˙800.00
7	THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK  Organization address address: 41ST STREET 230 WEST 5TH FLOOR city: New York postcode: 10036 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Brian R. Cognome: Gibney Email: send email Telefono: +1 718 9515600 Fax: +1 718 9514607	US (New York)	participant	229˙625.00
8	UNIVERSITE PAUL CEZANNE AIX MARSEILLE III  Organization address address: Avenue Robert Schuman 3 city: AIX-EN-PROVENCE postcode: 13628 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Magali Cognome: Niox Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 42172494 Fax: +33 4 42172546	FR (AIX-EN-PROVENCE)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In a solar cell that converts energy as efficient as the natural plant photosystems, electrons should travel over very short distances, through an extremely ordered structure free of traps. Guided by these principles that were worked out at WIS and CUNY, we want to synthesize many different peptides, and consecutively screen variants thereof for a putative diode function. When linked to light-harvesting building blocks, these should yield a novel type of solar cell that is based on biomimetic principles. To achieve these goals, UPC will chemically synthesize a panel of artificial building blocks that are designed to harvest light and/or tunnel electrons. When assembled into many different peptides, some of these constructs are expected to function as a diode, and, when linked to light-harvesting molecules, as a solar cell. Peptides will be embedded into a self-assembled monolayer of alkanethiols on individual gold pads of a computer chip, which will be designed and manufactured by IMS. Each individual peptide can be addressed by feeding in, and at the same time measuring, the amount of current flow in both directions through the gold pads of the individual pixels. A similar kind of screen should then detect a functional peptide-based solar cell. 10.000 Peptides per cm(2) will be synthesized by a particle based combinatorial synthesis recently developed by KIT-G and PPP. These peptides will be transferred in the array format to the chip where they couple to the gold pads. Therein, peptides will be coupled through cysteine residues to the flat gold surface, where they are embedded into a membrane-like structure. We expect that our evolution inspired approach may open a novel route to very efficient, and very cheap solar cells. This is due to the small percolation distances, highly ordered modular peptide structures, the large number of generated peptides, the ability to easily combine and modify eventually found peptide-diodes, and the frugal material consumption.'