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Solar Textiles

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 113

Special Issue Editor

Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: textile electronics; smart garments; conductive textiles; conjugated polymers; reactive vapor deposition; physical vapor deposition; soft materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent cross-cutting endeavors in melding electronic materials processing with traditional textile coating and manufacturing routines have resulted in an exciting set of textile electronics that can revolutionize personalized health monitoring and human–machine interfacing. Applying these strategies to create fabric or fiber-based photovoltaic technologies could drive renewable energy into innovative new applications, such as solar energy-harvesting window curtains, and sewable solar energy-harvesting patches for outerwear and camping gear. However, innovations in materials processing, device and optical engineering, and fabrication process flows are still needed to produce practical, highly efficient, mechanically robust solar fabrics.

Thus, to further spread the technologies and methods related to solar energy harvesting in textile electronics, this Special Issue, entitled “Solar Textiles”, will appear in the international journal Energies, which is an SSCI and SCIE journal (2017 IF = 2.676). This Special Issue mainly covers original research and studies related to solar textiles, including, but not limited to, ultrathin solar cells, printed solar cells on fabrics, fiber-based electrodes for photovoltaics, light-absorbing materials for wearable solar harvesting, textile coating chemistries for solar cell encapsulation, optical engineering strategies for increased light harvesting in fiber-based devices, and device integration strategies for textile electronics. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer-review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

I am writing to invite you to submit your original work to this Special Issue. I am looking forward to receiving your outstanding research.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trisha L. Andrew
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Solar fabrics
  • Solar fibers
  • Textile electronics
  • Wearable technologies
  • Woven solar cells
  • Optical Fibers
  • Electronic coatings
  • Fiber encapsulation

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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