Meeting the clean energy demand: nanostructure architectures for solar energy conversion

PV Kamat - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007 - ACS Publications
The increasing energy demand in the near future will force us to seek environmentally clean
alternative energy resources. The emergence of nanomaterials as the new building blocks …

Nanostructure in energy conversion

S Buller, J Strunk - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanostructured and nanosized materials are widely applied to tackle the pressing
challenges associated with energy conversion. In this conceptual review, rather than …

One-dimension-based spatially ordered architectures for solar energy conversion

S Liu, ZR Tang, Y Sun, JC Colmenares… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The severe consequences of fossil fuel consumption have resulted in a need for alternative
sustainable sources of energy. Conversion and storage of solar energy via a renewable …

Quantum confined colloidal nanorod heterostructures for solar-to-fuel conversion

K Wu, T Lian - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy conversion, particularly solar-driven chemical fuel formation, has been
intensely studied in the past decades as a potential approach for renewable energy …

Semiconductor nanoheterostructures for photoconversion applications

MJ Fang, CW Tsao, YJ Hsu - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The evergrowing energy crisis and environmental degradation have instigated scientists to
explore sophisticated, versatile energy conversion systems. Photoconversion, which …

Nanochemistry and nanomaterials for photovoltaics

G Chen, J Seo, C Yang, PN Prasad - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanochemistry and nanomaterials provide numerous opportunities for a new generation of
photovoltaics with high solar energy conversion efficiencies at low fabrication cost. Quantum …

Nanoarray structures for artificial photosynthesis

L Tian, Q Xin, C Zhao, G Xie, MZ Akram, W Wang, R Ma… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conversion and storage of solar energy into fuels and chemicals by artificial photosynthesis
has been considered as one of the promising methods to address the global energy crisis …

Assemblies of artificial photosynthetic reaction centres

S Fukuzumi, K Ohkubo - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature harnesses solar energy for photosynthesis in which one reaction centre is associated
with a number of light harvesting units. The reaction centre and light-harvesting units are …

Templated assembly of photoswitches significantly increases the energy-storage capacity of solar thermal fuels

TJ Kucharski, N Ferralis, AM Kolpak, JO Zheng… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Large-scale utilization of solar-energy resources will require considerable advances in
energy-storage technologies to meet ever-increasing global energy demands. Other than …

Towards highly efficient photocatalysts using semiconductor nanoarchitectures

H Zhou, Y Qu, T Zeid, X Duan - Energy & Environmental Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The search for clean renewable energy sources is of central importance to address the ever-
increasing challenges of diminishing fossil fuels and global warming. Photocatalytic …