Advanced Sustainable Systems,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 24, 2025
Abstract
Greenhouse
agriculture
relies
heavily
on
fossil
fuels
for
indoor
lighting,
resulting
in
significant
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
Transitioning
to
renewable
energy
sources,
particularly
solar
energy,
offers
a
sustainable
solution.
Solar
being
clean
and
reliable,
is
ideal
agricultural
greenhouses,
reducing
their
dependency
conventional
sources
lowering
Recent
studies
have
highlighted
effective
technologies
integration.
This
article
reviews
the
role
of
luminescent
materials
like
quantum
dots
optimizing
light
management.
Quantum
enhance
absorption
by
converting
ultraviolet
radiation
into
visible
photosynthetically
active
(PAR),
improving
plant
photosynthesis
growth
conditions
controlled
environments.
Advancements
greenhouses
focus
integrating
such
as
light‐to‐light
conversion
photovoltaic
(PV)
systems.
dots,
inorganic
semiconductors,
are
covers,
high‐energy
UV
PAR
boosting
productivity.
Traditional
PV
modules
structures
can
cause
shading,
negatively
impacting
crop
growth.
However,
using
bifacial
based
Luminescent
Concentrators
(LSCs),
inside
while
capturing
at
edges
generate
electricity
internal
use,
mitigating
shading
issues
enhancing
efficiency.
Small,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
19(39)
Published: May 25, 2023
Radiative
cooling
materials
that
can
dynamically
control
solar
transmittance
and
emit
thermal
radiation
into
cold
outer
space
are
critical
for
smart
management
sustainable
energy-efficient
buildings.
This
work
reports
the
judicious
design
scalable
fabrication
of
biosynthetic
bacterial
cellulose
(BC)-based
radiative
(Bio-RC)
with
switchable
transmittance,
which
developed
by
entangling
silica
microspheres
continuously
secreted
nanofibers
during
in
situ
cultivation.
Theresulting
film
shows
a
high
reflection
(95.3%)
be
facilely
switched
between
an
opaque
state
transparent
upon
wetting.
Interestingly,
Bio-RC
exhibits
mid-infrared
emissivity
(93.4%)
average
sub-ambient
temperature
drop
≈3.7
°C
at
noon.
When
integrating
commercially
available
semi-transparent
cell,
enables
enhancement
power
conversion
efficiency
(opaque
state:
0.92%,
0.57%,
bare
cell:
0.33%).
As
proof-of-concept
illustration,
model
house
its
roof
built
Bio-RC-integrated
cell
is
demonstrated.
research
shine
new
light
on
emerging
applications
advanced
materials.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
62(34)
Published: May 27, 2023
Exploiting
dual-functional
photoelectrodes
to
harvest
and
store
solar
energy
is
a
challenging
but
efficient
way
for
achieving
renewable
utilization.
Herein,
multi-heterostructures
consisting
of
N-doped
carbon
coated
MoS2
nanosheets
supported
by
tubular
TiO2
with
photoelectric
conversion
electronic
transfer
interfaces
are
designed.
When
photo
sodium
ion
battery
(photo-SIB)
assembled
based
on
the
heterostructures,
its
capacity
increases
399.3
mAh
g-1
high
photo-conversion
efficiency
0.71
%
switching
from
dark
visible
light
at
2.0
A
.
Remarkably,
photo-SIB
can
be
recharged
only,
striking
231.4
Experimental
theoretical
results
suggest
that
proposed
enhance
charge
kinetics,
maintain
structural
stability,
facilitate
separation
photo-excited
carriers.
This
work
presents
new
strategy
design
use
energy.
ACS Photonics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(3), P. 715 - 726
Published: March 3, 2023
Passive
radiative
cooling
is
a
cost-efficient
and
eco-friendly
approach
to
cool
terrestrial
objects
by
dissipating
heat
the
outer
space.
Colored
(CRC)
has
many
advantages
over
conventional
passive
garnered
growing
interest
recently.
However,
existing
CRC
films
are
normally
opaque,
where
incident
sunlight
either
reflected
for
rendering
color
or
absorbed
generate
waste
heat.
In
this
work,
we
design
transmissive
film
that
allows
specific
portion
of
light
pass
through
provides
more
vivid
colors.
Such
achieves
coloration
dual-function
stacking
solar
transparent
selective
emitter
on
top
nanocavity-based
filter.
The
first
designed
using
mixed-integer
memetic
algorithm,
layer
materials,
their
number
sequence,
thicknesses
simultaneously
optimized.
variability
in
both
material
composition
thickness
enables
with
near-ideal
emissivity
atmospheric
windows
subambient
cooling,
an
ultrahigh
transmissivity
range
penetration.
Then,
structures
bottom
nanocavity
determined
tandem
neural
network
on-demand
generation.
This
machine
learning-assisted
inverse
real-time
structure
prediction
colors
offers
great
flexibility
balancing
coloring
functionalities.
proposed
methodology
can
have
special
significance
broadening
application
coolers
energy-efficient
buildings,
power-generating
windows,
sustainable
greenhouses.
Nano Materials Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 1, 2024
Two-dimensional
(2D)
materials
have
attracted
considerable
research
interest
due
to
their
precisely
defined
properties
and
versatile
applications.
In
this
realm,
borophene
-
a
single
atomic
sheet
of
boron
atoms
arranged
in
honeycomb
lattice
has
emerged
as
promising
candidate.
While
borophenes
were
theoretically
predicted
unique
structural,
optical,
electronic
properties,
the
experimental
synthesis
crystalline
sheets
was
first
demonstrated
on
metal
substrates
2015,
marking
crucial
milestone.
Since
then,
efforts
focused
controlling
semiconducting
polymorphs
exploring
novel
physical
characteristics.
This
review
aims
explore
potential
2D
materials,
specifically
borophene,
various
technological
fields
such
batteries,
supercapacitors,
fuel
cells,
more.
The
analysis
emphasises
meticulous
scrutiny
techniques
fundamental
importance
realising
borophene's
properties.
Specifically,
high
carrier
mobilities,
tuneable
bandgaps,
exceptional
thermal
conductivity
are
highlighted.
By
providing
comprehensive
outlook
significance
advancing
science
technologies,
contributes
shaping
landscape
material
research.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(2), P. 512 - 512
Published: Jan. 10, 2025
Organic
solar
cells
(OSCs)
are
made
from
carbon-rich
organic
compounds
with
low
environmental
impacts,
unlike
the
silicon
in
traditional
panels.
Some
of
these
materials
can
be
broken
down
and
reprocessed,
enabling
recovery
valuable
components.
Specifically,
active-layer
that
make
up
OSCs
designed
sustainability
mind.
However,
it
is
important
to
note
practical
active
used
for
commercialization
still
an
area
research
development
due
their
efficiency/stability
processability.
Herein,
we
synthesized
three
A-D-A’-D-A-type
long-conjugated
non-fullerene
acceptors
(NFAs)
by
incorporating
various
electron-withdrawing
groups
into
benzothiadiazole-diindacenodithiophene
core.
These
NFAs,
changing
end-capping
groups,
exhibit
not
only
distinct
physical,
optical,
electrochemical
properties,
but
also
differences
crystallinity
exciton
dissociation.
As
a
result,
they
exhibited
significant
photovoltaic
performance
PM6
donor-based
binary
devices.
The
introduction
small
amounts
NFAs
as
third
component
PM6:BTP-eC9
blend
significantly
enhanced
its
photon
harvesting
capabilities
influenced
charge
transfer
dynamics.
Finally,
achieved
remarkable
power
conversion
efficiency
nearly
17%
utilizing
eco-friendly
solvent.
This
study
provides
insights
efficient
OSCs.
