Due to the unique optical and electrochemical properties, large surface area, tunable
properties, and high thermal stability, nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) has …

Through billions of years of evolution and natural selection, biological systems have
developed strategies to achieve advantageous unification between structure and bulk …

Metal halide perovskite has emerged as a promising material for light-emitting diodes. In the
past, the performance of devices has been improved mainly by optimizing the active and …

Flexible thin film solar cells have attracted a great deal of attention as mobile power sources
and key components for building-integrated photovoltaics, due to their light weight and …

Thin film solar cells are one of the important candidates utilized to reduce the cost of
photovoltaic production by minimizing the usage of active materials. However, low light …

Solar anti-icing/deicing (SADI) is an economically-efficient method of harvesting solar
energy as heat for melting and removing ice. However, SADI materials with superior sunlight …

The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an ultrasensitive spectroscopic technique
that can identify materials and chemicals based on their inelastic light-scattering properties …

Engineering icephobic surfaces has been a long-standing effort to address the challenges of
ice prevention and removal in our daily life and industrial applications. Superhydrophobic …

Graphene fiber-based electrodes for supercapacitors are promising candidates for wearable
energy storage. Their main limitation, although, is the low electrochemical performance …