Articles
Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for Direct Conversion of Sunlight to Electricity
Sunlight is an abundant natural resource and for many decades scientists have been interested to find ways and means of harnessing the energy from the sun. Researchers have explored many processes wh...
Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram, Michael Grätzel
Material Matters 2009, 4.4, 88.
Keywords: Absorption, Bacterial conjugations, Calorimetry, Capillary electrophoresis, Degradations, Electronics, Infrared spectroscopy, Ligands, Oxidations, Recombination, Reductions, Semiconductor, Separation, Solar cells, Solvents
Materials for Clean H2 Production from Bioethanol Reforming
Hydrogen is one of the most important resources in providing food, fuel, and chemical products for our everyday life. Sustainable catalytic hydrogen production from bioethanol has gained significant ...
Hong Xie, Eric Weitz, and Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Material Matters, 2012 v7, n4
Keywords: Absorption, Adsorption, Boudouard reaction, Catalysis, Dehydration reaction, Dehydrogenation, Deposition, Fermentation, Polymerization reactions, Precipitation, Redox Reactions, Renewable energy
Mesoporous Titanium Dioxide Thin Films
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an important n-type semiconducting material that shows interesting characteristics such as photoswitchable surface wettability, high photocatalytic activity, bistable elect...
Jinshu Wang, Junshu Wu, Hongyi Li
Material Matters, Volume 7, Number 2, 2–6
Keywords: Adsorption, Building blocks, Catalysis, Ceramics, Condensations, Cosmetics, Degradations, Diffraction, Eliminations, Evaporation, Materials Science, Oxidations, Polymerization reactions, Semiconductor, Separation, Sol-gel
Organic Dyes for Efficient and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Over the last decade, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted much attention because these unconventional solar cells exhibit high performance and have the potential for low-cost production...
Kohjiro Hara, Nagatoshi Koumura
Material Matters 2009, 4.4, 92.
Keywords: Absorption, Diffusion, Infrared spectroscopy, Oxidations, Photoexcitation, Photovoltaics, Recombination, Semiconductor, Solar cells, Spectroscopy, transformation
Synthesis of ZnO Aggregates and Their Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
Solar energy, as the primary source of energy for all living organisms on Earth, is considered the ultimate solution to the energy and environmental challenge as a carbon-neutral energy source. Many ...
Qifeng Zhang, Kwangsuk Park, Guozhong Cao
Material Matters 2010, 5.2, 32.
Keywords: Absorption, Adsorption, Atomic layer deposition, Calorimetry, Centrifugation, Chemical reactions, Degradations, Deposition, Diffraction, Diffusion, Environmental, Hydrogenations, Ligands, Materials Science, Photovoltaics, Precipitation, Recombination, Scanning electron microscopy, Semiconductor, Solar cells, Spectroscopy, X-Ray diffraction
