Developing environmentally friendly, renewable energy is one of the challenges to society in the 21st century. One of the renewable energy technologies is solar energy conversion — a technology that directly converts daylight into electricity.
In their ChemComm Highlight in Chemistry, Dirk Guldi and Vito Sgobba survey recent breakthroughs in implementing carbon nanostructures — fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanohorns and graphene — into solar energy conversion schemes, that is, bulk heterojunction and dye-sensitised solar cells. Read the article today and let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
2011 is the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011), a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. ChemComm is marking IYC 2011 by publishing a series of ‘Highlights in Chemistry’. For more information visit the the ChemComm and IYC 2011 website.
