Photovoltaic (PV) modules are subject to climate-induced degradation that can affect their
efficiency, stability, and operating lifetime. Among the weather and environment related …

With the development of material engineering and coating industries, superhydrophobic
coatings with exceptional water repellence have increasingly come into researchers' …

Conventional resources of energy production by burning fossil fuels are detrimental to the
earth's atmosphere leading to serious problems such as global warming and acid rain. As a …

Antifogging (AF) structure materials found in nature have great potential for enabling novel
and emerging products and technologies to facilitate the daily life of human societies …

Fog on a solid surface is prejudicial to its optical properties and will even cause hygienic
and safety concerns in some exceptional cases. Thus, antifogging coatings have attracted …

Membrane fouling due to superhydropobicity of polytetrafluoroethylene ultrafiltration
membranes (PTFE UFMs) represents a grand challenge for their practical applications in …

A major problem in the operation of photovoltaic (PV) panels is the need for frequent
maintenance and cleaning. In the present work, the effect of a self-cleaning, photocatalytic …

The objective of this study has been twofold: i) to investigate different strategies for CPV
module glass surface modification, in particular preparing hydrophilic and hydrophobic …

A high level of transparency and rich self-cleaning thin film of TiO 2 on glass substrates were
synthesized using the dip-coating method. The preferred orientation (1 0 1) and (2 0 0) …

The significance of using renewable energy has led to huge amount of studies on increasing
the efficiency of the systems using these energies. The flat plate solar collector (FPSC) is …