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Carbon nanotube-wrapped Fe2O3 anode with improved performance for lithium-ion batteries

  • Guoliang Gao,
  • Yan Jin,
  • Qun Zeng,
  • Deyu Wang and
  • Cai Shen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 649–656, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.69

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  • /COOH-MWCNT composite is a potential anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Keywords: anode material; carbon nanotubes; hydrothermal synthesis method; lithium-ion batteries; Introduction The depletion of non-renewable energy resources such as coal, petrol and natural gas has led to the urgent need
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Published 17 Mar 2017

Performance of natural-dye-sensitized solar cells by ZnO nanorod and nanowall enhanced photoelectrodes

  • Saif Saadaoui,
  • Mohamed Aziz Ben Youssef,
  • Moufida Ben Karoui,
  • Rached Gharbi,
  • Emanuele Smecca,
  • Vincenzina Strano,
  • Salvo Mirabella,
  • Alessandra Alberti and
  • Rosaria A. Puglisi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 287–295, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.31

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  • ; nanorods; nanowalls; natural dye; ZnO; Introduction Energy demand has increased rapidly during the last forty years to reach a growth rate of 1.8% per year [1]. To satisfy this growing need, it is necessary to find new sources of renewable energy. For instance, photovoltaic (PV) technologies offer a
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Published 30 Jan 2017

Optical and photocatalytic properties of TiO2 nanoplumes

  • Viviana Scuderi,
  • Massimo Zimbone,
  • Maria Miritello,
  • Giuseppe Nicotra,
  • Giuliana Impellizzeri and
  • Vittorio Privitera

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 190–195, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.20

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  • renewable energy generation but also in sustainable technology to remove dangerous contaminants from water [2][3][4][5][6]. In this context, TiO2 is one of the most extensively studied materials. However, TiO2 is characterized by a wide band gap (ca. 3 eV) resulting in a poor absorption of light in the
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Published 18 Jan 2017

The cleaner, the greener? Product sustainability assessment of the biomimetic façade paint Lotusan® in comparison to the conventional façade paint Jumbosil®

  • Florian Antony,
  • Rainer Grießhammer,
  • Thomas Speck and
  • Olga Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 2100–2115, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.200

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  • impact. Regarding the cumulative energy demand from non-renewable energy sources, the biomimetic product Lotusan® has a lower indicator value. Jumbosil® as the reference product has a 1.54-fold higher demand on non-renewable primary energy, which is mainly due to the higher share of polymer dispersion
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Published 29 Dec 2016

Synthesis and applications of carbon nanomaterials for energy generation and storage

  • Marco Notarianni,
  • Jinzhang Liu,
  • Kristy Vernon and
  • Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 149–196, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.17

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  • still not been resolved, leaving problems for future generations to deal with [13]. Renewable energy represents the easiest way to produce clean and safe energy but included only 10% of the resources used in 2013 (Figure 1). Unfortunately, the cost of producing energy from renewable sources is still
  • high. However, costs are decreasing, allowing these technologies to be considered in the near future when the price of fossil fuels increase due to their scarcity. Among all of the renewable energy resources available, including hydroelectricity, geothermal energy, wind energy, biomass and others
  • ]. Figure 31 shows the best solar cell efficiencies reported by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States over the last 40 years. Of note is that the organic solar cell efficiencies increased from 4 to 12% (record established by Heliatek in 2013 for a tandem, organic solar cell
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Published 01 Feb 2016

Surface engineering of nanoporous substrate for solid oxide fuel cells with atomic layer-deposited electrolyte

  • Sanghoon Ji,
  • Waqas Hassan Tanveer,
  • Wonjong Yu,
  • Sungmin Kang,
  • Gu Young Cho,
  • Sung Han Kim,
  • Jihwan An and
  • Suk Won Cha

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1805–1810, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.184

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  • the Cell-A and Cell-B, and (inset) at open circuit voltage and bias voltage of 0.1 V for the Cell-B. FE-SEM top-view image of AAO membrane with well-arrayed 80 nm-sized pores, cleaned by sonication in ethanol. Acknowledgements This work was supported by the New & Renewable Energy Development Program
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Published 27 Aug 2015

Materials for sustainable energy production, storage, and conversion

  • Maximilian Fichtner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1601–1602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.163

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  • , due to the rising global temperature, there is a need to reduce CO2 emissions to mitigate or prevent further global warming. Both needs have fueled international efforts to convert the current energy supply strategy into an economy which must eventually be based on renewable energy sources such as
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Published 23 Jul 2015

Thermal energy storage – overview and specific insight into nitrate salts for sensible and latent heat storage

  • Nicole Pfleger,
  • Thomas Bauer,
  • Claudia Martin,
  • Markus Eck and
  • Antje Wörner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1487–1497, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.154

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  • demand of conventional energy sources for two reasons: First, they prevent the mismatch between the energy supply and the power demand when generating electricity from renewable energy sources. Second, utilization of waste heat in industrial processes by thermal energy storage reduces the final energy
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Published 09 Jul 2015

Electrocatalysis on the nm scale

  • R. Jürgen Behm

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1008–1009, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.103

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  • electrocatalysis. This is on the one hand stimulated by applications in energy conversion and energy storage, where highly efficient electrochemical/electrocatalytic processes are considered to be an indispensable part of modern energy concepts based on the use of renewable energy sources. However, it is also
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Published 21 Apr 2015

Experimental determination of the light-trapping-induced absorption enhancement factor in DSSC photoanodes

  • Serena Gagliardi and
  • Mauro Falconieri

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 886–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.91

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  • recognized target for renewable energy production. Among the different technologies, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) have attracted particular interest, starting from the publication of the seminal paper of Gratzel and O’Reagan in 1991 [1]. A DSSC is a photoelectrochemical system, similar to others studied
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Published 02 Apr 2015

Palladium nanoparticles anchored to anatase TiO2 for enhanced surface plasmon resonance-stimulated, visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity

  • Kah Hon Leong,
  • Hong Ye Chu,
  • Shaliza Ibrahim and
  • Pichiah Saravanan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 428–437, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.43

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  • significant contribution towards non-renewable energy sources by synthesizing a visible-light photocatalyst for sustainable applications. Experimental Materials Titanium(IV) chloride (TiCl4 99.9%, Merck), sodium tetrachloropalladate(II) (Na2[PdCl4] 99.998%, Sigma–Aldrich), tetrahydrofuran (THF, Fluka
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Published 11 Feb 2015

Carrier multiplication in silicon nanocrystals: ab initio results

  • Ivan Marri,
  • Marco Govoni and
  • Stefano Ossicini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 343–352, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.33

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  • Engineering, The University of Chicago, 5555 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States 10.3762/bjnano.6.33 Abstract One of the most important goals in the field of renewable energy is the development of original solar cell schemes employing new materials to overcome the performance
  • An important challenge in modern day scientific research is the establishment of clean, inexpensive, renewable energy sources. Based on the extraction of energy from the solar spectrum, photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most appealing and promising technologies in this regard. Intense effort is
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Published 02 Feb 2015

Liquid fuel cells

  • Grigorii L. Soloveichik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1399–1418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.153

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  • exchange membranes; direct alcohol fuel cells; direct borohydride fuel cells; electrocatalysts; liquid fuel cells; organic fuel; proton exchange membranes; Introduction Fuel cells are considered to be one of the key elements of the “hydrogen economy”, in which hydrogen generated from renewable energy
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Published 29 Aug 2014

Functionalized nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic performance under solar light

  • Liejin Guo,
  • Dengwei Jing,
  • Maochang Liu,
  • Yubin Chen,
  • Shaohua Shen,
  • Jinwen Shi and
  • Kai Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 994–1004, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.113

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  • Liejin Guo Dengwei Jing Maochang Liu Yubin Chen Shaohua Shen Jinwen Shi Kai Zhang International Research Center for Renewable Energy & State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an 710049, China 10.3762/bjnano.5.113 Abstract Photocatalytic hydrogen
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Published 09 Jul 2014

Photocatalytic antibacterial performance of TiO2 and Ag-doped TiO2 against S. aureus. P. aeruginosa and E. coli

  • Kiran Gupta,
  • R. P. Singh,
  • Ashutosh Pandey and
  • Anjana Pandey

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 345–351, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.40

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  • from DST (Project no. SR/S3/ME/0016/2008) and MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) Govt. of India, New Delhi, India and Dr. O. N. Srivastava (BHU, India) for providing the facility for XRD and TEM characterization.
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Published 06 Jun 2013

Near-field effects and energy transfer in hybrid metal-oxide nanostructures

  • Ulrich Herr,
  • Barat Achinuq,
  • Cahit Benel,
  • Giorgos Papageorgiou,
  • Manuel Goncalves,
  • Johannes Boneberg,
  • Paul Leiderer,
  • Paul Ziemann,
  • Peter Marek and
  • Horst Hahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 306–317, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.34

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  • most useful form. On the other hand, the storage of energy is a particularly important issue in this case, since the energy supplied by photovoltaics depends on the local and temporal availability of sunlight. There is again general agreement on the fact that the use of renewable energy sources
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Published 14 May 2013
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