Mike Scott
Email: mjscott@holly.colostate.edu
Background
B.S. in Chemistry from Salisbury State University, Maryland in 2001.
Joined the Elliott group in January 2002.
I
am originally from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where Salisbury State
University, now Salisbury University, is located. After High School I spent some time in the
Navy as a weather observer, then went to SSU for my degree in Chemistry. It was during my time in the Navy that I
decided I would like to work in the renewable energy field. Then later, as an undergraduate, that
chemistry was the discipline in which to do that work. That is how I ended up at CSU.
Since
coming to CSU, I got married to my girlfriend of six years in June of
2002. My wife, Rebecca Dumeyer is also
an alumni of Salisbury State University, and got her Master’s in Biology from
New York University. We live in Fort
Collins with our two cats, Cassidy and Onyx, and our dog, Odin.
Project:
My
research is the more physical side of the dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSSCs). I have overhauled the Elliott
Group’s time resolved laser spectrometer to operate with a pulsed (brighter)
probe beam in order to increase the instrument’s sensitivity. I need the increased sensitivity to see a
transient absorbance signal from a dyed thin film (~5-10 mm) of TiO2. These ‘psuedo-photoanodes’ mimic the
photoanode used in our DSSCs with the exception that the film is deposited on
non-conducting glass. The transient
absorption experiment allows us to probe the electron transfer dynamics between
the photo-oxidized dye and the reduced form of various redox mediators.
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