Solar container materials chemistry

Solar Energy Capture Materials introduces a range of the different inorganic materials used, with an emphasis on how solid-state chemistry allows development of new functional solids for energy applications. His work, deeply rooted in chemistry, spans a wide array of fields: from the intricacies of DNA origami and synthetic food chemistry to the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles. NLR's solar photochemistry research focuses on solar photoconversion in molecular, nanoscale, and semiconductor systems to capture, control, and convert high-efficiency solar radiation into electrochemical potential for electricity, chemicals, or fuels. A multi-institute team led by Oxford has unravelled the factors enabling efficient charge-carrier transport in the light-harvesting materials for solar cells, in a work published in Nature Communications. Thermal energy storage (TES) is an efficient solution for improving the dispatchability of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants.