Recent progress in solar cells based on carbon nanomaterials

Deshmukh, Megha A.; Park, Sang-Joon; Hedau, Bhavna S.; Ha, Tae‐Jun

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2021.04.001

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“…Nanomaterials offer opportunities to develop functional materials with surface, electronic, plasmonic, optical, catalytic and magnetic properties that differ significantly when compared to macroparticles [120,121], thus leading to many new applications that can be used to address numerous technical and social issues in our daily lives, such as solar cells [122][123][124], nanomaterials applied in medicine [125][126][127], gas sensors [128][129][130], energy storage and engineering [131][132][133][134][135] and a great highlight in the field of catalysis [136], mainly for water and effluent treatment [137][138][139][140][141][142].…”

Section: Relationship Between Nanotechnology and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Conversion of Plastic Waste into Supports for Nanostructured Heterogeneous Catalysts: Application in Environmental Remediation

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Plastics are ubiquitous in our society and are used in many industries, such as packaging, electronics, the automotive industry, and medical and health sectors, and plastic waste is among the types of waste of higher environmental concern. The increase in the amount of plastic waste produced daily has increased environmental problems, such as pollution by micro-plastics, contamination of the food chain, biodiversity degradation and economic losses. The selective and efficient conversion of plastic waste for applications in environmental remediation, such as by obtaining composites, is a strategy of the scientific community for the recovery of plastic waste. The development of polymeric supports for efficient, sustainable, and low-cost heterogeneous catalysts for the treatment of organic/inorganic contaminants is highly desirable yet still a great challenge; this will be the main focus of this work. Common commercial polymers, like polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene therephthalate, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride, are addressed herein, as are their main physicochemical properties, such as molecular mass, degree of crystallinity and others. Additionally, we discuss the environmental and health risks of plastic debris and the main recycling technologies as well as their issues and environmental impact. The use of nanomaterials raises concerns about toxicity and reinforces the need to apply supports; this means that the recycling of plastics in this way may tackle two issues. Finally, we dissert about the advances in turning plastic waste into support for nanocatalysts for environmental remediation, mainly metal and metal oxide nanoparticles.

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Conversion of Plastic Waste into Supports for Nanostructured Heterogeneous Catalysts: Application in Environmental Remediation

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“…Carbon-based nanomaterials, e.g., fullerenes, nanoribbons, nanotubes, and other sp 2 -hybridized carbon-based systems have attracted increased attention because of their extraordinary structural, optical, and electronic properties . These nanomaterials exhibit enormous potential applications in optical data storage, solar cells, , organic field-effect transistors, biomedical engineering, , and nanoelectronics . On the basis of these extensive applications, much of the interest in the field of nonlinear optics has been focused on carbon-based nanomaterials in recent years, particularly graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) , and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). − …”

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BN-Doped Carbon Nanotubes and Nanoribbons as Nonlinear-Optical Functional Materials for Application in Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

Yang

Duan

et al. 2023

ACS Appl. Nano Mater.

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Pure carbon-based nanomaterials with good π conjugation and thermal stability, e.g., nanotubes and nanoribbons, have long served as promising conjugated materials for application in second-order nonlinear-optical (NLO) devices but suffer from two inherent structural problems: weak polarity (or even nonpolarity) and high chemical reactivity ascribed to zigzag edge states. In the present work, boron nitride (BN) chains are used to divide carbon nanotubes and nanoribbons, forming a functional block to tune the electronic structure, and thus induce charge redistribution or modify the molecular energy gap for second-order NLO materials or integrated electronic materials. A balance between the electronic kinetic stability and second-order NLO properties is established by structural manipulation. The strong second-order NLO responses in the visible and near-infrared regions make these hybridized carbon-based molecules potential NLO materials for applications in biological nonlinear optics. The application of BN to tune the electronic structure of carbon nanomaterials paves a path for fabricating nanoelectronic and nano-NLO devices.

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“…In general, the success of applying carbon materials to C–PSCs is attributed to their low cost, carbon abundance, highly tuneable structures with controllable and suitable Fermi levels (≈5.0 eV) close to that of Au (5.1 eV), and various other properties, such as high mechanical strength, [ 53,54 ] good electrical and thermal conductivity, [ 55–57 ] chemical stability, [ 58 ] and high charge carrier mobility. [ 59,60 ] In addition, these materials exhibit chemical stability with halides and high hydrophobic properties.…”

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Advances in Carbon Materials Applied to Carbon‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells

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Perovskite‐based solar cells (PSCs) are some of the most promising devices for capturing photovoltaic energy. Efficiency has increased from single digits to a certified 25.7%, an unprecedented improvement for any solar cell technology. Incorporating carbon materials into perovskite solar cells promises to be revolutionary in the solar cell field by increasing stability, decreasing manufacturing costs, and making them attractive for commercialization. Here, an overview of the advances in carbon‐based perovskite solar cells (C–PSCs) that incorporate different carbon materials as back contact on different device architectures is presented. An overview of PSC architectures and high‐ and low‐temperature C–PSCs is provided. Additionally, recent advances in the main carbon materials applied in the field, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon dots, and biocarbon, are presented. Finally, a summary of carbon materials applied to C–PSCs is provided.

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Recent progress in solar cells based on carbon nanomaterials

Cited by 44 publications

References 260 publications

Conversion of Plastic Waste into Supports for Nanostructured Heterogeneous Catalysts: Application in Environmental Remediation

Conversion of Plastic Waste into Supports for Nanostructured Heterogeneous Catalysts: Application in Environmental Remediation

BN-Doped Carbon Nanotubes and Nanoribbons as Nonlinear-Optical Functional Materials for Application in Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

Advances in Carbon Materials Applied to Carbon‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells

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