Generation of green hydrogen using self-sustained regenerative fuel cells: Opportunities and challenges

US Meda, YV Rajyaguru, A Pandey - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing energy demand, depleting fossil fuel reserves, and rising temperatures
due to greenhouse gas emissions have necessitated the transition towards the generation of …

Thermoplasmonics in solar energy conversion: materials, nanostructured designs, and applications

B Yang, C Li, Z Wang, Q Dai - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The indispensable requirement for sustainable development of human society has forced
almost all countries to seek highly efficient and cost‐effective ways to harvest and convert …

Nanostructured chromium-based broadband absorbers and emitters to realize thermally stable solar thermophotovoltaic systems

MA Abbas, J Kim, AS Rana, I Kim, B Rehman, Z Ahmad… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficiency of traditional solar cells is constrained due to the Shockley–Queisser limit, to
circumvent this theoretical limit, the concept of solar thermophotovoltaics (STPVs) has been …

Concentrating solar power

LA Weinstein, J Loomis, B Bhatia, DM Bierman… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Solar energy is a bountiful renewable energy resource: the energy in the sunlight that
reaches Earth in an hour exceeds the energy consumed by all of humanity in a year. 1 While …

Colored, daytime radiative coolers with thin‐film resonators for aesthetic purposes

GJ Lee, YJ Kim, HM Kim, YJ Yoo… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recently developed approaches in passive radiative cooling enable daytime cooling via
engineered photonic structure layouts. However, the use of these daytime radiative coolers …

Ultranarrow-band wavelength-selective thermal emission with aperiodic multilayered metamaterials designed by Bayesian optimization

A Sakurai, K Yada, T Simomura, S Ju… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We computationally designed an ultranarrow-band wavelength-selective thermal radiator
via a materials informatics method alternating between Bayesian optimization and thermal …

A review on thermophotovoltaic cell and its applications in energy conversion: issues and recommendations

MMA Gamel, HJ Lee, WESWA Rashid, PJ Ker, LK Yau… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Generally, waste heat is redundantly released into the surrounding by anthropogenic
activities without strategized planning. Consequently, urban heat islands and global …

Large-Scale Nanophotonic Solar Selective Absorbers for High-Efficiency Solar Thermal Energy Conversion.

P Li, B Liu, Y Ni, KK Liew, J Sze, S Chen… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2015 - europepmc.org
An omnidirectional nanophotonic solar selective absorber is fabricated on a large scale
using a template-stripping method. The nanopyramid nickel structure achieves an average …

High-efficiency solar thermophotovoltaic system using a nanostructure-based selective emitter

R Bhatt, I Kravchenko, M Gupta - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we present the design, fabrication, optimization, and experimental results of a
high-efficiency planar solar thermophotovoltaic (STPV) system utilizing a micro-textured …

Design of a high-performance titanium nitride metastructure-based solar absorber using quantum computing-assisted optimization

S Kim, S Wu, R Jian, G Xiong, T Luo - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metastructures of titanium nitride (TiN), a plasmonic refractory material, can potentially
achieve high solar absorptance while operating at elevated temperatures, but the design …