Scientists leave Canada to pioneer solar technology

Pentafluorophenoxy-boronsubphthalocyanine does not exactly roll off the tongue.

But it is opening up job prospects for Graham Morse, 26.

The fluorescent purple compound, which Morse and his chemical engineering colleagues created at the University of Toronto, is one of the new forms of matter being designed for use in ``organic'' solar cells.

Pentafluorophenoxy-boronsubphthalocyanine, which Morse calls F5 for short, is such a promising candidate for harvesting the sun's energy it has been undergoing testing at a top solar lab in the U.S, according to a report in Canada.com.

Morse went along to do the six months of testing and has returned with not only positive results for F5, but a job offer at an energy frontier research centre at the University of Arizona.  >>More here

SOURCE:  canada.com