Nanoporous Anodic Alumina Photonic Crystals for Sunlight Harvesting Applications: A Perspective
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2022
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Lim, S.Y.
Hedrich, C.
Law, C.S.
Abell, A.D.
Blick, R.H.
Furlan, K.P.
Zierold, R.
Santos, A.
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Solar RRL, 2022; 6(10):2200480-1-2200480-32
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Siew Yee Lim, Carina Hedrich, Cheryl Suwen Law, Andrew D. Abell, Robert H. Blick, Kaline P. Furlan, Robert Zierold, and Abel Santos
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Nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) fabricated by anodization of aluminum is a versatile platform material with tailorable geometric, optical, and chemical features for specific light-based technologies and applications. Recent advances in anodization technology have enabled a new generation of NAA-based photonic crystals (PCs)—periodic dielectric nanoporous structures that selectively allow, forbid, and confine the flow of incoming electromagnetic waves of specific wavelengths across their structure. NAA–PCs provide exciting new opportunities to engineer light–matter interactions with versatility across the broad spectrum, from UV to IR. But despite these fundamental advances, demonstrations of sunlight-harvesting technologies based on NAA–PCs are still limited. Herein, an up-to-date summary of recent advances in NAA–PC technology is provided, and proof-of-concept demonstrations and future pathways to propel this versatile platform material across sunlight-harvesting technologies such as photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, photothermal energy conversion, and solar cells are discussed.
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Published online: August 9, 2022.
There is also another record for this title - Back Cover: Graphical Abstract, in Solar RRL, 2022; 6(10):2270106. Sunlight Harvesting Applications: In article number 2200480, Abel Santos and co-workers highlight nanoporous anodic alumina as an optical platform material with promising potential for sunlight-harvesting technologies and applications. Recent advances in this dynamic field are summarized and future pathways outlined, to propel this versatile material across solar technologies such as photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, photothermal energy conversion, and solar cells.
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