Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage

X Chen, C Li, M Grätzel, R Kostecki… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decades, there have been many projections on the future depletion of the
fossil fuel reserves on earth as well as the rapid increase in green-house gas emissions …

TiO2 nanotubes for dye‐sensitized solar cells—A review

X Hou, K Aitola, PD Lund - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) are a potential candidate for the photoelectrode in dye‐sensitized
solar cells (DSSCs). In this review, emphasis is given to the fabrication methods of the TNT …

Strongly coupled carbon quantum dots/NiCo-LDHs nanosheets on carbon cloth as electrode for high performance flexible supercapacitors

W Luo, W Chen, H Quan, ZX Zhang, Y Zeng… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
NiCo-LDHs is one of the most promising electrode materials for supercapacitors. However,
the intrinsic low conductivity and the volume expansion/contraction still seriously limit the …

Hydrothermal Fabrication of Hierarchically Anatase TiO2 Nanowire arrays on FTO Glass for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

WQ Wu, BX Lei, HS Rao, YF Xu, YF Wang, CY Su… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Hierarchical anatase TiO2 nano-architecture arrays consisting of long TiO2 nanowire trunk
and numerous short TiO2 nanorod branches on transparent conductive fluorine-doped tin …

Oriented hierarchical single crystalline anatase TiO 2 nanowire arrays on Ti-foil substrate for efficient flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

JY Liao, BX Lei, HY Chen, DB Kuang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Hierarchical anatase TiO2 nanowire (HNW) arrays consisting of long single crystalline
nanowire trunks and short single crystalline nanorod branches have been synthesized on Ti …

Improving photoanodes to obtain highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells: a brief review

K Fan, J Yu, W Ho - Materials Horizons, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) feature low cost, stability, and environment friendliness
and are thus a promising substitute for traditional silicon solar cells. DSSCs have received …

In situ growth of a ZnO nanowire network within a TiO (2) nanoparticle film for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell performance.

Y Bai, H Yu, Z Li, R Amal, GQ Lu… - … Materials (Deerfield Beach …, 2012 - europepmc.org
ZnO nanowire networks featuring excellent charge transport and light scattering properties
are grown in situ within TiO (2) films. The resultant TiO (2)/ZnO composites, used as …

Nanoarchitectures in dye-sensitized solar cells: metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based materials

JS Shaikh, NS Shaikh, SS Mali, JV Patil, KK Pawar… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have aroused great interest and been regarded as a
potential renewable energy resource among the third-generation solar cell technologies to …

Maximizing omnidirectional light harvesting in metal oxide hyperbranched array architectures

WQ Wu, HL Feng, HS Rao, YF Xu, DB Kuang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The scrupulous design of nanoarchitectures and smart hybridization of specific active
materials are closely related to the overall photovoltaic performance of an anode electrode …

Effect of TiO 2 morphology on photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cells: nanoparticles, nanofibers, hierarchical spheres and ellipsoid spheres

JY Liao, JW He, H Xu, DB Kuang, CY Su - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Different morphologies of anatase TiO2 from nanoparticles, nanofibers, and hierarchical
spheres to ellipsoid spheres are successfully fabricated via solvothermal reactions of …