This review addresses the reconstruction of structural plant components (cellulose, lignin,
and hemicelluloses) into materials displaying advanced optical properties. The strategies to …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are optical systems that absorb, convert, and
concentrate solar light by means of photoluminescence of an emitting material embedded in …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are complementary sunlight collectors for
photovoltaics (PVs). Emissive fluorophores embedded in a transparent waveguide collect …

Abstract Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are primarily used in lasers and
telecommunications. Liquid film deposition of DBRs holds great promise for expanding their …

Solution processing of highly performing photonic crystals has been a towering ambition for
making them technologically relevant in applications requiring mass and large-area …

We reported an efficient multicomponent polyannulation for in situ generation of
heteroaromatic hyperbranched polyelectrolytes by using readily accessible internal diynes …

While luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have been researched for several decades,
there is still a lack of commercially available systems, mostly due to scalability, performance …

Poor interfacial quality and low refractive index contrast (Δ n) are critical challenges for the
development of high-performance one-dimensional photonic crystals (1DPhCs) via solution …

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are devices designed to efficiently collect both
direct and diffuse solar radiation and concentrate it on photovoltaic cells to foster their use in …

Long-wavelength multicolor emission and high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs)
play a key role in carbon dot (CD)-based luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs). Herein …