Inan effort to enhance the efficiency of solar panels Chinese researchershave proposed unique coral-shaped nanomaterials that can be made fromporous materials such as tin oxide.

However, changing the structure andmorphology of the materials is difficult using current preparationmethods.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy ofSciences, Hefei, have developed tin oxide nanomaterials shaped likecorals, via a “swallowing growth mechanism”, which increases thesurface area of cells thereby increasing the efficiency ofdye-sensitized solar cells compared with spherical shapednanoparticles.

Via: RSC