Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 30773
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Interests: charge and spin transport in nanostructures; physics of nanodevices; architectures for computing, including quantum computing; plasmonics; metamaterials and metasurfaces; characterization and propagation of structured light beams, including optical vortices
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy harvesting is a major research topic with huge applications for humanity. Nanomaterials have enhanced the performance of many energy-harvesting devices due to the increase in strength of physical effects such as photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, thermoelectricity, or magneto-mechanical effects. These phenomena, commonly involved in energy harvesting, are often denoted as giant or colossal in connection with nanomaterials and nanosystems. The reason is that at this scale interfaces and surfaces play an increasing role in light and phonon scattering, while quantum effects such as tunneling and ballistic transport of charge carriers and heat often inspire new architectures for energy harvesting and demand nanomaterials and nanostructures with precisely controlled properties.
Therefore, this Special Issue will be focused on specially designed nanosystems for energy-harvesting applications, including their theoretical modeling, fabrication, and characterization, as well as on specific configurations and devices that could efficiently harvest energy in a certain wavelength/frequency band. Such devices include but are not limited to photovoltaic cells, supercapacitors, rectennas, and pyroelectric and thermoelectric devices. Besides the aforementioned nanostructures, this Special Issue welcomes any research focused on new physical effects and advanced nanomaterials and architectures for energy harvesting.
Dr. Daniela Dragoman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanoparticles and quantum structures for energy harvesting
- graphene and other 2D materials for energy harvesting
- ferroelectric energy harvesting
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- pyroelectric energy harvesting
- magnetic materials and configurations for energy harvesting
- thermoelectric materials
- photovoltaic cells and thermophotovoltaic devices
- rectennas
- supercapacitors
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