Research on the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) over the past thirty‐odd years is
reviewed. The LSC is a simple device at its heart, employing a polymeric or glass …

Publisher Summary Biological membranes generally contain considerable amounts of
highly unsaturated lipids and cholesterol. The regulation of the degree of phospholipid …

The success of fluorescence experiments requires attention to experimental details and an
understanding of the instrumentation. There are also many potential artifacts that can distort …

Amyloid fibrils are a polymeric form of protein, involving a continuous β-sheet with the
strands perpendicular to the long axis of the fibril. Although typically implicated in diseases …

Upon excitation with polarized light, the emission from many samples is also polarized. The
extent of polarization of the emission is described in terms of the anisotropy (r). Samples …

A new type of “smart” window is proposed that makes use of fluorescent dye guests in a
liquid‐crystal host sandwiched between glass panels. The dye absorbs a variable amount of …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) use dye molecules embedded in a flat-plate
waveguide to absorb solar radiation. Ideally, the dyes re-emit the absorbed light into …

The surface and edge emissions from dye-filled and dye-topped polycarbonate and
polymethyl methacrylate luminescent solar concentrators were measured. We demonstrate …

We report a study of the orientational order of aligned thin films of the liquid crystalline
conjugated polymer poly (9, 9-dioctylfluorene). Steady state polarized fluorescence …

This thesis presents the results of work on the optical properties and design optimisation of
the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). The optical properties of a range of fluorophores …