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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades, Pedro Hidalgo, David Maestre, Ruth Martínez‐Casado, Emilio Nogales, Beatriz Rodríguez, G. Cristian Vásquez, Bianchi Méndez   +7 more
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Solar Power in Italy: Evaluating the Potential of Concentrated Solar Power and Photovoltaic Technologies

Energies
Italy’s abundant solar resources and its strategic Mediterranean location offer strong opportunities to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon energy system.
Giampaolo Caputo, Irena Balog, Giuseppe Canneto   +2 more
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Development of a cascaded latent heat storage system for parabolic trough solar thermal power generation [PDF]

, 2014
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has the potential of fulfilling the world’s electricity needs. Parabolic-trough system using synthetic oil as the HTF with operating temperature between 300 and 400o C, is the most matured CSP technology.
Muhammad, Mubarak Danladi
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Tough, Ductile, and Strong Hard‐Soft Cementitious Composite Enabled by Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Drawing inspiration from the layered hard‐soft architecture found in sea sponges, this work establishes a new framework for architected cementitious composites (ACC) through multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) process. The integration of mortar and elastomer phases into layered architectures enables synergistic toughening mechanisms, including
Aimane Najmeddine, Shashank Gupta, William Makinen, Zayvinn Lin, Krystal Delnoce, Reza Moini   +5 more
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An Analytical Approach to Power Optimization of Concentrating Solar Power Plants with Thermal Storage

Solar
This paper deals with the problem of determining the optimal capacity of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, especially in the context of hybrid solar power plants.
Andrii Cheilytko, Spiros Alexopoulos, Andriy Pozhuyev, Oliver Kaufhold   +3 more
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Combined concentrated solar power plant with low-temperature multi-effect distillation

Energy Exploration & Exploitation, 2020
This study analyzes a technological concept for simultaneously generating power and desalinating water in a Middle East and North Africa country. An innovative, low-temperature, multi-effect desalination (LT-MED) process integrated with a concentrating ...
Mohammad Al-Addous, Mustafa Jaradat, Mathhar Bdour, Zakariya Dalala, Johannes Wellmann   +4 more
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Lattice‐Matched 2D Template Enables Efficient Cesium Tin Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lattice‐matched 2D perovskite PEA2CsSn2I7 templates the out‐of‐plane growth of inorganic 3D γ‐CsSnI3 along the (110) plane, forming highly oriented 2D/3D tin halide perovskite heterostructures. With reduced trap states and mitigated δ‐phase impurities, the CsSnI3‐based solar cells achieve a power conversion efficiency of 15.27% and maintain stable ...
Hongzhe Anna Xu, Dongxu He, Wencai Zhou, Julian A. Steele, Zhiliang Wang, Zitong Wang, Chengxi Zhang, Shanshan Ding, Bowei Zhang, Huiyuan Cheng, Mengmeng Hao, Jiangyu Hang, Can Zheng, Zilong Zheng, Peng Chen, Lianzhou Wang   +15 more
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Single‐Chromophore Homojunction Organic Solar Cells: A Path to Simplicity and Efficiency

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective discusses how the intrinsic optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors, their molecular packing in the solid‐state, and internal energetic gradients within a device can enable free‐charge carrier generation in homojunction organic solar cells.
Shaun McAnally, Paul L. Burn, Paul E. Shaw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerated aging tests and characterizations of innovated anti-soiling coatings for solar receiver glasses

, 2020
International audienceDurability tests of solar materials are crucial to guarantee the profitability of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants and to ensure a proper efficiency during their lifetime.
Bourdon, Delphine, Le Baron, Estelle, Pescheux, Anne-Claire, Raccurt, Olivier   +3 more
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Self‐Assembled Monolayers in p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells: Molecular Design, Interfacial Engineering, and Machine Learning–Accelerated Material Discovery

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights the role of self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) in perovskite solar cells, covering molecular engineering, multifunctional interface regulation, machine learning (ML) accelerated discovery, advanced device architectures, and pathways toward scalable fabrication and commercialization for high‐efficiency and stable single‐junction and
Asmat Ullah, Ying Luo, Stefaan De Wolf
wiley   +1 more source