Luminescent solar collectors: quo vadis?

J Roncali - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are optical systems that absorb, convert, and
concentrate solar light by means of photoluminescence of an emitting material embedded in …

Plant‐based structures as an opportunity to engineer optical functions in next‐generation light management

JJ Kaschuk, Y Al Haj, OJ Rojas, K Miettunen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review addresses the reconstruction of structural plant components (cellulose, lignin,
and hemicelluloses) into materials displaying advanced optical properties. The strategies to …

Mild sol–gel conditions and high dielectric contrast: a facile processing toward large-scale hybrid photonic crystals for sensing and photocatalysis

S Bertucci, H Megahd, A Dodero, S Fiorito… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solution processing of highly performing photonic crystals has been a towering ambition for
making them technologically relevant in applications requiring mass and large-area …

Prospects in Broadening the Application of Planar Solution‐Based Distributed Bragg Reflectors

E Palo, KS Daskalakis - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are primarily used in lasers and
telecommunications. Liquid film deposition of DBRs holds great promise for expanding their …

Controlled synthesis of long-wavelength multicolor-emitting carbon dots for highly efficient tandem luminescent solar concentrators

J Wang, J Wang, Y Xu, J Jin, W Xiao… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Long-wavelength multicolor emission and high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs)
play a key role in carbon dot (CD)-based luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs). Herein …

Minimizing scaling losses in high-performance quantum dot luminescent solar concentrators for large-area solar windows

NS Makarov, D Korus, D Freppon… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
While luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have been researched for several decades,
there is still a lack of commercially available systems, mostly due to scalability, performance …

Indoor/outdoor light-harvesting by coupling low-cost organic solar cell with a luminescent solar concentrator

F Mateen, MA Saeed, JW Shim, SK Hong - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) is considered a promising solution for
harvesting indoor and outdoor light energy. Despite a multitude of investigations of LSC …

NIR light-triggered self-healing waterborne polyurethane coatings with polydopamine-coated reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles

C Yu, MS de Luna, A Marotta, C Ponti, I Esposito… - Progress in Organic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-healing coatings that are able to self-repair after being damaged represent an effective
solution to provide a reliable and long-lasting protection of the underlying substrate. In this …

Heteroaromatic hyperbranched polyelectrolytes: multicomponent polyannulation and photodynamic biopatterning

X Liu, M Xiao, K Xue, M Li, D Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We reported an efficient multicomponent polyannulation for in situ generation of
heteroaromatic hyperbranched polyelectrolytes by using readily accessible internal diynes …

Luminescent solar concentrators with outstanding optical properties by employment of D–A–D quinoxaline fluorophores

C Papucci, R Charaf, C Coppola, A Sinicropi… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices designed to efficiently collect both
direct and diffuse solar radiation and concentrate it on photovoltaic cells to foster their use in …