NanoNerds | The Exciting World of Excitons @NanoNerds | Uploaded February 2013 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
A photon from the sun excites a chlorophyll molecule in a leaf, producing a cascade of energy that fuels plant growth... and most life on earth. But how can scientists get that energy to flow further and faster and to power human machinery as well? Illustrator/storyteller/scientists Stephanie Valleau (Harvard) and Dan Congreve (MIT) take us from the giant sun to the tiny molecules that may hold the key to green energy here on earth.
Stephanie and Dan are graduate students at the MIT-Harvard Center for Excitonics, a U.S. DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. This video was produced, with assistance from Jeanne Antill, at the Research Communication Laboratory at the Museum of Science, directed by Carol Lynn Alpert.
A photon from the sun excites a chlorophyll molecule in a leaf, producing a cascade of energy that fuels plant growth... and most life on earth. But how can scientists get that energy to flow further and faster and to power human machinery as well? Illustrator/storyteller/scientists Stephanie Valleau (Harvard) and Dan Congreve (MIT) take us from the giant sun to the tiny molecules that may hold the key to green energy here on earth.
Stephanie and Dan are graduate students at the MIT-Harvard Center for Excitonics, a U.S. DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. This video was produced, with assistance from Jeanne Antill, at the Research Communication Laboratory at the Museum of Science, directed by Carol Lynn Alpert.
