Background In recent years, nanotechnology has been playing an important role in
designing smart fabrics. Nanomaterials have been employed to introduce in a sustainable …

Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the
advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the different generations of photovoltaic cells and
current research directions focusing on their development and manufacturing technologies …

Maximizing the efficiency while exploiting the fully inherent advantages of organic
photovoltaics (OPVs), eg, ultra-flexibility, ultra-lightweight, rich color, etc., is of great …

Abstract Photovoltaic (PV)-green roofs, a new development integrating the PV system with a
green roof, provide additional benefits for renewable electricity production as compared to …

Since the mechanical properties of green cellulosic fibers are only determined
experimentally with high diversity, introducing prediction methods for such intrinsic …

The environmental changing and the innovative production methods have made advanced
composite materials essential for the modern societies. Due to their unique properties, such …

The greening of urban environments plays a crucial role in mitigating the adverse effects of
urbanization, such as air pollution and the urban heat island effect, and can provide …

Cooperation studies have supported the understanding of possible technological
development strategies adopted in the Research and Development (R&D) departments …

This work proposes a new simplified five-parameter estimation method for a single-diode
model of photovoltaic panels. The method, based on an iterative algorithm, is able to …