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- Developing renewable energy, particularly solar energy conversion, is a major 21st-century challenge.
- Recent advancements have focused on integrating carbon nanostructures, like fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanohorns, and graphene, into solar energy technologies.
- These innovations enhance various solar technologies, including bulk heterojunction and dye-sensitized solar cells.
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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. This highlight surveys recent breakthroughs in the field of implementing carbon nanostructures--fullerenes (0D), carbon nanotubes (1D), carbon nanohorns, and graphene (2D)--into solar energy conversion schemes, that is, bulk heterojunction and dye-sensitized solar cells.
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