Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization

Role of Interfaces in Nanocomposite Materials. Experimentally obtained improvements in ZT in two superlattice structures benefit ...

Solar Concentrators and Hot Water Heaters Heat transfer surfaces for water heaters call for polymer/composites with high mechani ...

Figure 59 Illustration of various size regimes of the kinetics of solid-solid phase transitions. Defects, which act as nucleatio ...

G. Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, J.-P. Fleurial, and T. Caillat, “Recent Developments in Thermoelectric Materials,” Int. Mat. Rev. 48 ...

Materials Architectures for Solar Energy: Assembling Complex Structures Solar energy conversion devices necessarily involve asse ...

Materials and Processing Methods to Control Architecture of the Active Materials As noted above, the morphology of the active la ...

“bottom-up” construction of inorganic PV materials that are organized on length scales ranging from angstroms (crystal structure ...

materials and fabrication approaches to solar cells. An overall concept that needs to be maintained through all of this work wil ...

Self-organized Hierarchical Structures Biological systems employ a hierarchical organization to carry out many functions, includ ...

multi-electron H 2 O and CO 2 activation, but methods are lacking that allow coupling of these components to electron/hole condu ...

TMS will be used to discover the design rules for reverse-engineering building blocks capable of self-assembling into target str ...

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CONCLUSION Global demand for energy will more than double by mid-century and more than triple by the century’s end. Meeting this ...

and quantum dots. Quantum dots are especially exciting for their tunable absorption wavelength, their quantum conversion efficie ...

mediate solar conversion. These emerging tools of nanoscale fabrication, characterization, and simulation bring fundamental unde ...

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Appendix 1: Technology Assessments Solar Electricity............................................................................ ...

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