Recent progress of metal single-atom catalysts for energy applications

Q Yang, Y Jiang, H Zhuo, EM Mitchell, Q Yu - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received tremendous attention in heterogeneous
catalysis because of their excellent catalytic performance and robust stability. Metal SACs …

Emerging chalcogenide thin films for solar energy harvesting devices

S Hadke, M Huang, C Chen, YF Tay, S Chen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chalcogenide semiconductors offer excellent optoelectronic properties for their use in solar
cells, exemplified by the commercialization of Cu (In, Ga) Se2-and CdTe-based photovoltaic …

Single-atom catalysts designed and prepared by the atomic layer deposition technique

J Fonseca, J Lu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique allows the synthesis of materials at the atomic
scale to be controlled. ALD has been adapted to design and prepare single-atom catalysts …

[HTML][HTML] SnSe/SnS: multifunctions beyond thermoelectricity

D Liu, B Qin, LD Zhao - Materials Lab, 2022 - matlab.labapress.com
Miniaturization, lightweight and highly integration have gradually become the main trends in
the development of modern science and technology. Two-dimensional (2D) SnSe/SnS …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Catalyst design with atomic layer deposition

BJ O'Neill, DHK Jackson, J Lee, C Canlas, PC Stair… - Acs …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has emerged as an interesting tool for the atomically precise
design and synthesis of catalytic materials. Herein, we discuss examples in which the atomic …

Beyond methylammonium lead iodide: prospects for the emergent field of ns 2 containing solar absorbers

AM Ganose, CN Savory, DO Scanlon - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of photovoltaics is undergoing a surge of interest following the recent discovery of
the lead hybrid perovskites as a remarkably efficient class of solar absorber. Of these …

Overcoming efficiency limitations of SnS‐based solar cells

P Sinsermsuksakul, L Sun, SW Lee… - Advanced Energy …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film solar cells are made by vapor deposition of Earth‐abundant materials: tin, zinc,
oxygen and sulfur. These solar cells had previously achieved an efficiency of about 2%, less …

Liquid‐metal synthesized ultrathin SnS layers for high‐performance broadband photodetectors

V Krishnamurthi, H Khan, T Ahmed… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically thin materials face an ongoing challenge of scalability, hampering practical
deployment despite their fascinating properties. Tin monosulfide (SnS), a low‐cost, naturally …

GeSe thin-film solar cells fabricated by self-regulated rapid thermal sublimation

DJ Xue, SC Liu, CM Dai, S Chen, C He… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
GeSe has recently emerged as a promising photovoltaic absorber material due to its
attractive optical and electrical properties as well as earth-abundant and low-toxic …