Materials for Sustainable Energy A Collection of Peer-reviewed Research and Review Articles from Nature Publishing Group

Preface / Vincent Dusastre -- Research initiatives towards sustainable handling of energy / Jean-Marie Tarascon & Michael Gratzel -- Photovoltaic cells. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices / Harry A. Atwater & Albert Polman. Excitons in nanoscale systems / Gregory D. Scholes & Garry Rumbles. Photoelectrochemical cells / Michael Gratzel. High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells based on solvent-free electrolytes produced from eutectic melts / Yu Bai et al. Ultrathin silicon solar microcells for semitransparent, mechanically flexible and microconcentrator module designs / Jongseung Yoon et al. Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols / J. Peet et al. Metallated conjugated polymers as a new avenue towards high-efficiency polymer solar cells / Wai-Yeung Wong et al. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources / Bozhi Tian et al. A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells / Youngkyoo Kim et al. Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics / Steven A. McDonald et al. Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells / Matt Law [und weitere]. High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends / Gang Li et al. A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission / Eric W. McFarland & Jing Tang. A stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with an amphiphilic ruthenium sensitizer and polymer gel electrolyte / Peng Wang et al. Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films / Peter Peumans, Soichi Uchida & Stephen R. Forrest. Thermoelectric converters. Complex thermoelectric materials / G. Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S. Toberer. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires / Allon I. Hochbaum et al. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials / Akram I. Boukai et al. Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit / Rama Venkatasubramanian [und weitere] -- Batteries and supercapacitors. Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future / Michel Armand [und weitere]. Materials for electrochemical capacitors / Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi. Nanostructured materials for advanced energy conversion and storage devices / Antonino Salvatore Arico [und weitere]. Nanoionics : ion transport and electrochemical storage in confined systems / J. Maier. Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries / J.-M. Tarascon & M. Armand. Lithium deintercalation in LiFePO[symbol] nanoparticles via a domino-cascade model / C. Delmas [und weitere]