Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges in Perovskite Solar Cell Components for Innovative Photovoltaics.

This article reviews the latest advancements in perovskite solar cell (PSC) components for innovative photovoltaic applications. Perovskite materials have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation solar cells due to their exceptional light-absorbing capabilities and facile fabrication processes. However, limitations in their stability, scalability, and efficiency have hindered their widespread adoption.

Performance of Partially Exfoliated Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes Wrapped with Hierarchical Porous Carbon in Electrolytes.

The preparation of highly conductive, high-surface-area, heteroatom-doped, porous carbon nanocomposite materials with enhanced electrochemical performance for sustainable energy-storage technologies, such as supercapacitors, is challenging. Herein, a route for the large-scale synthesis of nitrogen-doped porous carbon wrapped partially exfoliated carbon nanotubes (N-PPECNTs) with an interconnected hierarchical porous structure, as an advanced electrode material that can realize several potential applications for energy storage, is presented. Polypyrrole conductive polymer acts as both nitrogen and carbon sources that contribute to the pseudocapacitance.

Colloidal synthesis and electrical behaviour of n-ZnGdO/p-Si heterojunction diodes.

Studies on manoeuvring the optoelectronic characteristics of a semiconducting nanostructure are of recent specific interest for a wide range of photonic applications. In this regard, the optical and electrical characteristics of ZnO nanostructures have been tuned and studied systematically using Gd ions. The structural and morphological characteristics of the solution processed ZnGdO nanostructures were studied in detail using the results of X-ray diffraction and microscopic measurements.