Thermal Solar

Solar energy is a vast, clean resource there for the taking, and the Buffalo Niagara Region and New York State support your efforts. Due to its availability of low cost power and water supply from the Niagara River, Buffalo Niagara has a number of large chemical manufacturers with a ready supply of the materials your company needs. With more then 20 years experience in PV materials, Buffalo based DuPont is a leading supplier of Polyvinyl Fluoride Products. Luvata Buffalo, Inc. engages in metal fabrication and is a major international supplier. Global, Fortune 300 company Praxair located in Niagara Falls, supplies atmospheric, process and specialty gases.

The Buffalo Niagara research community supports our solar initiative as well. As part of UB 2020 the University at Buffalo is strengthening and bringing together various disciplines. UB is investing in the growth of strategic strengths in several areas. One of these areas is the Integrated Nanostructured Systems Strategic Initiative, that includes solar energy as one of the components of this initiative. Using new approaches to photochemistry, UB chemists are developing novel self-assembly techniques for fabricating inorganic nanomaterials that may play a role in creating more efficient solar cells. Researchers are also studying and characterizing photo-induced surface electron transfer reactions occurring within self-assembled inorganic nanomaterials, the reactions that drive solar cells and photocatalysts. Developing a self-assembly technique for attaching quantum dots to metal oxide films and improving upon the targeted patterning, could lead to the increased efficiency of light harvesting.

For additional information or assistance with a project, please contact David Griggs at 716.842.1330 ext.369 or dgriggs@buffaloniagara.org

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