Over the past decades, there have been many projections on the future depletion of the
fossil fuel reserves on earth as well as the rapid increase in green-house gas emissions …

There is currently a large effort to improve the performance of low cost renewable energy
devices. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are emerging as one of the most promising low …

Electrospinning is attracting close interest as a versatile fabrication method for one
dimensional mesostructured organic, inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials of controlled …

Nanofibers are able to form a highly porous mesh and their large surface-to-volume ratio
improves performance for many applications. Electrospinning has the unique ability to …

Solar cells have provided a solution to the prevailing energy crisis and environmental
contamination in the ongoing energy-driven era because of their potential to utilize solar …

The tasks of harvesting, transmitting, and storing the energy required to meet global
demands are some of the most pressing needs we will face in the near future. Scientists are …

As the demand for energy is rapidly growing worldwide ahead of energy supply, there is an
impulse need to develop alternative energy-harvesting technologies to sustain economic …

Semiconductor nanowires are a class of materials recently gaining increasing interest for
solar cell applications. In this article we review the development of the field with a special …

Platinum (Pt)-free counter electrodes (CEs) are economical alternative components of dye-
sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that have attracted much interest and become the focus of …

One dimensional (1D) metal oxide nanostructures (1D-MONS) play a key role in the
development of functional devices including energy conversion, energy storage and …