New Horizons on Nanocrystalline Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 19538
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photocatalysis; water splitting; semiconductors materials; photoelectrochemistry; solar energy
Interests: semiconductor optical properties; optoelectronic semiconductor materials and devices
Interests: energy materials; lattice dynamics; charge transport; solar energy conversion; complex semiconductors; computational chemistry; photoelectrochemistry; spectroscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanocrystalline semiconductor materials are of great interest in solar energy conversion and storage applications, owing to their outstanding and unique properties. Nanostructuring allows the tuning of optoelectronic, mechanical, and thermodynamic properties of materials, that can be further harnessed in several applications, including sensors, non-linear optics, LEDs, photovoltaics, photo-electrocatalysis, and energy storage. Particularly, the crystalline structure has a direct influence on the properties and functionalities of nanostructured materials and their further performance. Therefore, in the last years large attention has been paid to nanocrystalline systems that stand as hot materials in solar energy conversion and storage applications. Such systems involve, for example, photovoltaic cells for electrical power generation, photo(-electro) catalysts for solar fuels production, synthesis of added values products, and the degradation of organic pollutants, as well as batteries, capacitors, and supercapacitors for energy storage.
The Special Issue on New Horizons on Nanocrystalline Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage aims to provide a strong platform gathering the recent advances and challenges on colloidal and thin films nanocrystalline materials, with potential application in solar energy harvesting and storing systems. We invite researchers to contribute to the present issue with their original works on the field, in the form of full paper, communication, and review. The topics on this issue cover, but are not restricted to:
- Emerging nanocrystalline systems with potential application in solar energy harnessing and storage.
- Novel routes of synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals.
- Controlled growth and deposition of nanocrystalline thin films.
- Advanced characterization techniques, and theoretical investigations on fundamental properties of nanocrystalline semiconductors, to assess their possibilities on solar conversion systems.
- Strategies for enhanced performance of nanocrystalline materials (surface functionalization, doping, heterostructures, etc.).
Any other topics of interest on the field, and not included herein, are welcome.
Dr. Drialys Cardenas-Morcoso
Dr. Hung-Pin Hsu
Dr. Franziska Simone Hegner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanocrystals
- Photocatalysis
- Photoelectrochemistry
- Semiconductors
- Solar energy conversion
- Energy storage
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