Solid state dye sensitized solar cells have been the focus of much attention over the past few years. We have recently been able to demonstrate efficiencies in excess of 4% and further improvements are expected. Here we compare a range of different hole conductor materials and investigate a number of key parameters which affect their performance. Wetting and pore filling of the nanoporous TiO2 ...

Triple-layer omnidirectional reflectors (ODRs) consisting of a semiconductor, a quarter-wavelength transparent dielectric layer, and a metal have high reflectivities for all angles of incidence. Internal ODRs (ambient material's refractive index n >> 1.0) are demonstrated that incorporate nanoporous SiO2, a low-refractive-index material (n = 1.23), as well as dense SiO2 (n = 1.46). GaP and Ag s...

sulfonic acid functionalized sba-15 (sba-pr-so3h) as a new nanoporous acid catalyst was used in the one-pot synthesis of polyhydroquinolines derivatives via the hantzsch four component condensation reaction of aldehydes, b-ketoesters, dimedone and ammonium acetate under solvent free conditions with short reaction time in excellent yields. sba-pr-so3h was proved to be an efficient heterogeneous ...

An innovative and low-cost method is proposed for the detection and discrimination of indole-positive pathogen bacteria. The method allows the non-invasive detection of gaseous indole, released by bacteria, with nanoporous colorimetric sensors. The innovation comes from the use of nanoporous matrices doped with 4-(dimethylamino)-cinnamaldehyde, which act as sponges to trap and concentrate the t...

The controlled production of magnetic nanowire arrays with outstanding characteristics is attracting much interest recently owing to their applications in emerging technologies related with magnetic information storage. Template electrodeposition is an efficient approaching method to fabricate these magnetic nanowires. In this paper, progresses and developments on the electrodeposition of magne...

Nanoporous carbon is coated by pure nickel via an electroless plating method. The nanoporous carbon provides a high-surface-area substrate, leading to a large capacitance; the nickel surface layer is of a high work function, resulting in a thermally sensitive electrode potential. Such a system is ideal for thermally chargeable supercapacitor (TCS) system, which converts low-grade heat (LGH) to ...

Atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) technology is a versatile technology that has been applied in many energy harvesting and storage devices. This feature article provides an overview of the advances in APPJ technology and its application to solar cells and batteries. The ultrafast APPJ sintering of nanoporous oxides and 3D reduced graphene oxide nanosheets with accompanying optical emission...

www.MaterialsViews.com C O M M U Nanoporous Scaffold with Immobilized Enzymes during Flow-Induced Gelation for Sensitive H 2 O 2 Biosensing N IC A By Donglai Lu , Joshua Cardiel , Guozhong Cao , and Amy Q. Shen * IO N Biosensors play indispensible roles in disease diagnosis, drug screening, and forensic applications, while nanoporous scaffolds hold an enormous potential in improving the perform...

Nanoporous carbon based thermally chargeable supercapacitors (TCS) are characterized in a set of experiments for low-grade heat harvesting and storage. A TCS consists of two nanoporous electrodes immersed in an electrolyte solution. When the temperature of one of the electrodes rises, its electrode potential increases, and a significant amount of thermal energy is converted to electric energy. ...