Enabling silicon for solar-fuel production

K Sun, S Shen, Y Liang, PE Burrows, SS Mao… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Recent progress of metal sulfide photocatalysts for solar energy conversion

Q Zhu, Q Xu, M Du, X Zeng, G Zhong, B Qiu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial photosynthetic solar‐to‐chemical cycles enable an entire environment to operate in
a more complex, yet effective, way to perform natural photosynthesis. However, such …

Recent Advances in Photoelectrochemical Applications of Silicon Materials for Solar‐to‐Chemicals Conversion

D Zhang, J Shi, W Zi, P Wang, S Liu - ChemSusChem, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) technology for the conversion of solar energy into chemicals
requires cost‐effective photoelectrodes to efficiently and stably drive anodic and/or cathodic …

[PDF][PDF] The future of low-cost solar cells

M Jacoby - Chem. Eng. News, 2016 - sites.psu.edu
The sun's gargantuan outpouring of free and non-carbon-emitting energy has driven
scientists for decades to develop photovoltaic devices—solar cells—that catch sunlight and …

Inorganic photovoltaic solar cells: silicon and beyond

M Tao - The Electrochemical Society Interface, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Photovoltaic solar cells tap into sunlight—the most abundant renewable energy source on
the Earth—for electricity. Our planet receives~ 1.2× 1017 W of solar power, while the rate of …

Advances in solar energy conversion

J Gong, C Li, MR Wasielewski - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing sustainable energy resources is one of the most urgent missions for human
beings as increasing energy demand is in drastic conflict with limited global fossil fuels …

Solar fuels and solar chemicals industry

DG Nocera - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
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Silicon nanostructures for solar-driven catalytic applications

D Liu, J Ma, R Long, C Gao, Y Xiong - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Silicon nanostructures exhibit prominent properties in solar energy conversion, which
particularly offer tunable light harvesting and facile surface modification in comparison with …

Silicon electrochemistry in molten salts

E Juzeliu̅nas, DJ Fray - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Silicon electrochemistry has the potential to advance sustainable energy solutions by
offering environmentally friendly and secure technologies that can contribute to the low …

[HTML][HTML] Introduction to solar photon conversion

AJ Nozik, J Miller - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
The efficient and cost-effective direct conversion of solar photons into solar electricity and
solar fuels is one of the most important scientific and technological challenges of this …