This new Special Issue in Advanced Energy Materials highlights recent progress in all fields of solar-energy related research.
An Artificial Leaf for Solar Water-Splitting
Researchers develop a highly versatile and adaptable artificial leaf for solar water-splitting in various natural environments.
Solar Glasses: A Glimpse into the Bright Future of Wearable Electronics
In an important step forward for wearable electronics, researchers design and build a set of “solar glasses”, which integrate transparent solar cells into the lenses and electronics into the frames, to measure and display the instantaneous light intensity and ambient temperature.
Collecting Electrons from Photovoltaic Cells
Perovskite solar cells made on flexible plastic substrates are a crucial development, but how to deposit the electron collecting layer?
Flexible dye-sensitized solar cell photoanodes
Scientists from Singapore and China have developed flexible titanium dioxide photoanodes with a multilayered structure.
A New Solar Cell with a CdS Layer for Improved Efficiency
A new solar cell is described that relies on a thin layer of clean CdS in which a high-field domain extracts holes from p-type emitters without having pn-junctions involved. This design is highly advantageous for increasing the efficiency of the solar cell significantly, by avoiding junction leakage and by increasing the open circuit voltage to its theoretical value approaching the band gap at T = 0 K.
Integration of semiconducting sulfides for full-spectrum solar energy absorption and efficient charge separation
A Chinese research team has recently constructed a unique ternary sulfide heteronanorod through a colloidal chemical transformation strategy.
Golden Anniversay Special: Solar Fuels Cluster, University of Toronto
After publishing 50 opinion pieces with us at MaterialsViews, Professor Ozin reflects on his three years work at the UofT solar fuel cluster, and looks to the future.
Molecular design improves polymer solar cell performance
Yang et al. present a new method to tune the HOMO level of a TT-based polymer for higher efficiency polymer solar cells.
Harvesting light in 3D: new design for silicon solar cell
Innovative 3D silicon solar cell design on both macroscale and nanoscale boosts efficiency while lowering cost.