Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

SL Candelaria, Y Shao, W Zhou, X Li, J Xiao, JG Zhang… - Nano energy, 2012 - Elsevier
Carbon materials have been playing a significant role in the development of alternative
clean and sustainable energy technologies. This review article summarizes the recent …

Silicon nanowires for photovoltaic solar energy conversion

KQ Peng, ST Lee - Advanced Materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor nanowires are attracting intense interest as a promising material for solar
energy conversion for the new‐generation photovoltaic (PV) technology. In particular, silicon …

Carbon/silicon heterojunction solar cells: state of the art and prospects

X Li, Z Lv, H Zhu - Advanced Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few decades, advances and breakthroughs of carbon materials have been
witnessed in both scientific fundamentals and potential applications. The combination of …

Biotemplated materials for sustainable energy and environment: current status and challenges

H Zhou, T Fan, D Zhang - ChemSusChem, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Materials science will play a key role in the further development of emerging solutions for the
increasing problems of energy and environment. Materials found in nature have many …

Physics and applications of aligned carbon nanotubes

Y Lan, Y Wang, ZF Ren - Advances in Physics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Ever since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Iijima in 1991, there have been
extensive research efforts on their synthesis, physics, electronics, chemistry, and …

Enhanced photoelectrochemical properties of ZnO/ZnSe/CdSe/Cu2-xSe core–shell nanowire arrays fabricated by ion-replacement method

Y Chen, L Wang, W Wang, M Cao - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2017 - Elsevier
The core-shell structures are designed to take advantages of each material to improve the
photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance. Here we report a facile ion-replacement strategy …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon nanotube based high resolution holograms

H Butt, Y Montelongo, T Butler, R Rajesekharan… - Advanced …, 2012 - academia.edu
The advancements in nanofabrication and microscopy techniques have provided us with
great control over the fabrication of carbon nanotubes (CNTs),[1] where we can engineer …

Photoelectrocatalytic degradation of amoxicillin over quaternary ZnO/ZnSe/CdSe/MoS2 hierarchical nanorods

Z Zheng, X Li, L Li, Y Tang - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Quaternary semiconductor film consists of ZnO, ZnSe, CdSe and MoS 2 was designed to
establish a core-shell structure to achieve the photoelectrochemical oxidation of amoxicillin …

Towards efficient dispersion of carbon nanotubes in thermotropic liquid crystals

S Schymura, M Kühnast, V Lutz… - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by numerous recent reports indicating attractive properties of composite materials
of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and liquid crystals (LCs) and a lack of research aimed at …

Elongated nanostructures for radial junction solar cells

Y Kuang, M Di Vece, JK Rath, L van Dijk… - Reports on progress …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In solar cell technology, the current trend is to thin down the active absorber layer. The main
advantage of a thinner absorber is primarily the reduced consumption of material and …