Tag Archives: nanowires
Nanowires: Making Quantum Dot Solar Cells Better
While potentially much more efficient, than conventional photovoltaic systems, quantum dot solar cells are still at a pre-commercialization stage. In a new paper, to be published in the journal Advanced Materials, researchers propose to improve quantum dot solar cell design with nanowires. To put it simply, quantum dot is a portion of matter that has [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Self Assembling Plastic Nanofibers
A research team under the collective leadership of Nicolas Giuseppone and Bernard Doudin, successful created highly conductive plastic nanofibers that can self assemble. Giuseppone and his colleagues propelled the discovery by first determining the structure of nanowires. The team chemically altered triarylamines (synthetic molecules commonly used in Xerox processes) and observed some fascinating reactions. The [...]
Nanowires= More Efficient/Less Expensive Solar?
Nano remains one of the most scintillating words in the whole of photovoltaics research. The idea engineering materials at a near atomic scale to create more efficient, less expensive photovoltaics has created numerous types of new solar cells, using everything from quantum wells to nanoantennas, nanowires and other nano-scale technologies. Most recently, the Lawrence Berkeley [...]
Fabric Made from Germanium Nanowires that Harness Solar
A tissue paper-like fabric created from germanium and silicon couldprove to be as strong as Kevlar and as an added advantage it can harvest solar energy as well. Unlike bulk germanium, which isn’t flexible andis highly brittle, the fabric created from nanowires is flexible and isas strong as Kevlar. However, these credentials won’t make germanium [...]