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Performance of a building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPVT) solar collector

, 2009
The idea of combining photovoltaic and solar thermal collectors (PVT collectors) to provide electrical and heat energy is an area that has, until recently, received only limited attention.
Carson, James K., Duke, Mike, Morrison, G. L., Anderson, Timothy Nicholas   +3 more
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Nanoengineered Binetworks in Multifunctional Anionic Block Polymer Mesoblends for Improved Mechanical Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoblends consist of a nanostructured polymer into which a second polymer is imbibed with a selective solvent. In this work, a solvent‐templatable pentablock terpolymer possessing a sulfonated midblock is modified with a hydrophilic polymer that is photocrosslinked in situ, yielding a hierarchical binetwork.
Kacie M. Wells, Ivan Kuzmenko, Reza A. Ghiladi, Richard J. Spontak   +3 more
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Designed Lewis Acid–Base Passivation for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Silicon's high cost and long energy payback time remain major barriers to the global expansion of solar power. In contrast, metal–halide perovskites offer abundant, solution‐processable absorbers, and have achieved efficiencies of 25%–30%, positioning them as strong competitors to silicon.
Afna Manaf, Hiba Shahulhameed, Bhabani Sankar Swain, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Adel Najar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A direct steam generation solar power plant with integrated thermal storage

, 2010
For the future market potential of parabolic trough power plants with direct steam generation (DSG), it is beneficial to integrate a thermal storage system.
Lehmann, D., Dorothea Lehmann, Birnbaum, J., Jürgen Birnbaum, Eck, M., Tobias Hirsch, Markus Fichtner, Markus Eck, Fichtner, M., Zimmermann, G., Hirsch, T., Gerhard Zimmermann   +11 more
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Enhanced continuous atmospheric water harvesting with scalable hygroscopic gel driven by natural sunlight and wind

Nature Communications
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) has received unprecedented attention as a future water and energy platform. However, the water productivity of SAWH systems is still constrained by the slow sorption kinetics at material and component ...
Xinge Yang, Zhihui Chen, Chengjie Xiang, He Shan, Ruzhu Wang   +4 more
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Extremely Long Electron Lifetime in Spontaneously Passivated Polycrystalline Perovskite Layers via Illumination‐Assisted Trap Filling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising next‐generation photovoltaics. The high performance of PSCs is attributed to the long carrier lifetimes of perovskite photoabsorbers. However, the carrier lifetimes of polycrystalline perovskite layers, which serve as the photoabsorbers in practical PSCs, have remained limited to several tens of ...
Naoyuki Nishimura, Ryuzi Katoh, Takurou N. Murakami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing photovolaic/thermal solar collectors for building integration

, 2008
With concern growing over the environment and resource use, there has been greater emphasis placed on sustainability, particularly in the built environment.
Carson, James K., Duke, Mike, Anderson, Timothy Nicholas   +2 more
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Technology roadmap: solar photovoltaic energy - 2014 edition [PDF]

, 2014
Solar power enhances energy diversity and hedges against price volatility of fossil fuels, thus stabilising costs of electricity generation in the long term, argues this report.

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Phase Evolution Kinetics in Additive‐Free 19.75% Organic Photovoltaics Empowered by Solvent Vapor Annealing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Solvent vapor annealing enables kinetic control of additive‐free morphology in organic solar cells. Selective plasticization of acceptor forms an optimal fibrillar network, boosting efficiency to 19.06% (binary) and 19.75% (ternary), with ultrafast exciton dissociation and reduced recombination.
Jie Lv, Jieni Chen, Cenqi Yan, Patrick W. K. Fong, Jingjing Zhao, Daming Zheng, DingQin Hu, Xiaoman Ding, Xiaokang Sun, Chuanlin Gao, Guangye Zhang, Qianguang Yang, Can Zhu, Pei Cheng, Shirong Lu, Zhipeng Kan, Zhiwei Ren, Guangliu Ran, Wenkai Zhang, Hanlin Hu, Gang Li   +20 more
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Combined water and electricity production on industrial scale in the MENA countries with concentrating solar power

, 2010
This paper presents some results from the EU-financed project MED-CSD in which were carried out technical and economic feasibility studies in concrete locations within selected MENA countries for water and power plants driven by concentrated solar power (
Kern, Jürgen, Trieb, Franz, Moser, Massimo   +2 more
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