Tim Schmidt

Tim Schmidt

@schmidtim.bsky.social

Just a boy who loves shooting molecules with lasers

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Tim Schmidt
@schmidtim.bsky.social

Sad to report the untimely passing of friend and colleague Klaas Nauta. He'd been out of touch for a while, but it's incredibly sad he's left the party for the last time. I don't have all the answers, but feel free to email/DM.

Tim Schmidt
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Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comStructural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion - Nature PhotonicsAn absolute photon upconversion efficiency of 8.2% is demonstrated using a liquid triplet fusion medium that behaves as solid on excitonic timescales. The findings may drive higher efficiencies in nan...

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Josh Butler
@joshbutler.bsky.social

This is bloody entertaining cricket but ripping through these Test matches so quickly is really ruining one of the most reliably comforting parts of summer (knowing you can fall asleep on the couch, full of ham and carbs, then wake up without having missed too much) #Ashes

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Replying to @xkcd.com

It’s a great story. Ted Irving failed his PhD at Cambridge but the Australian National University gave him a job anyway and he ended up with a stellar career. Cambridge later gave him a DSc.

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Jon Beves
@jonbeves.bsky.social

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Prashant Kamat
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Latest work from @schmidtim.bsky.social Tayebjee and collaborators Singlet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond Tetracene | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

pubs.acs.orgSinglet Fission c-Si Solar Cells: Beyond TetraceneSinglet fission photovoltaics enable the extraction of two electron–hole pairs from each higher-energy photon while leveraging a mature technology such as crystalline silicon (c-Si) as the underlying cell. Significant steps have been made in the development of singlet fission silicon photovoltaics, but all examples reported to date use tetracene as the singlet fission material. Tetracene is photochemically unstable and therefore unsuitable for commercial applications. Here we demonstrate singlet fission-derived triplet exciton transfer to c-Si from photochemically stable dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione (DPND) derivatives, with a thin layer of tin oxide as the passivation layer. An overlayer of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) was found to improve interface passivation further. These observations demonstrate that singlet fission photovoltaic devices can be made using stable and commercially viable materials.
Tim Schmidt
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I bet they also have a an electronics workshop

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isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comScientific GlassblowerPosition Title: Scientific Glassblower Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent and 5 years of related experience Preferred Qualifica...