Prof. James Durrant, partner of the A-LEAF project with his team at the Imperial College of London, was recently honoured Fellow of the Royal Society. The Fellowship is an award granted by the Royal Society of London to individuals the society judges to have made a “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science”.

Prof. Durrant’s research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion – targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis). It is based around employing transient optical and optoelectronic techniques to address materials function, and thereby elucidate design principles which can help guide technological development. His research is currently addressing the development and functional characterisation of organic and perovskite solar cells, and photoelectrodes and photocatalysts for solar driven fuel synthesis.

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