Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Lin ^a   Tan, Yingling ^a   Ji, Dengxin ^b   Zhu, Bin ^a   Zhang, Pei ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^b   Yu, Zongfu ^c   Zhu, Jia ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STEAM GENERATORS; STREAM FLOW;

LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES; NANOPOROUS TEMPLATES; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; WATER VAPOR;

CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WATER VAPOR;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; STEAM; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 85011857065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501227     Document Type: Article

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