In the present work, we introduce a facile and reliable approach to decorate TiO2 nanotubes homogenously with wellseparated copper oxide nanoparticles. For this, we use a palladium-containing titanium alloy (commercial Ti 0.2 atom% Pd) and grow anodic, self-organized oxide nanotubes. Palladium is embedded in the tube wall during growth and acts as activator for a subsequent electroless copper-n...

PV technology offers a sustainable solution to the increased energy demand especially based on mono- and polycrystalline silicon solar cells. The most recent years have allowed successful development of perovskite tandem heterojunction Si-based cells with conversion efficiency over 28%. metal oxide great potential application in future photovoltaic field. Cu2O (band gap 2.07 eV) ZnO 3.3 are ver...

Copper oxide (Cu2O) is a potential material as catalyst for CO2 reduction. Cu2O nanostructures have many advantages, including interfacial charge separation and transportation, enhanced surface area, quantum efficiency, feasibility of modification via composite development or integration the favorable functional groups. We cover current advancements in synthesis nanomaterials various morphologi...

Polymer solar cells (PSCs) have attracted tremendous interest as suitable candidates for harnessing energy in the recent years. The inherent optoelectronic properties of inorganic transition metal oxide, negative type cuprous oxide (n-Cu2O), makes it an attractive candidate to improve performance PSCs when incorporated electron selective transport layers (ESTLs) device. In this study, inverted ...

Cu2O nanostructures of cubic or octahedral shape as well decorated with gold nanoparticles were synthesized by a chemical process. The electrochemical activity these for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media was assessed dark and under solar light irradiation. Electrodes modified cubic-shaped Cu2O-Au revealed both enhanced electrocatalytic OER over octahedral-shaped ones, which ...