Solar energy materials, growing interest

Scientific interest in nanocarbon hybrid materials to enhance the properties of photocatalysts and photoactive electrodes has been growing rapidly [1-8]. The worldwide effort to find new efficient and sustainable solutions to use renewable energy sources has pushed the need to develop new and/or improved materials able to capture and convert solar energy, for example in advanced dye-sensitized solar cells - DSSC (where the need to improve the photovoltaic performance has caused interest in using nanocarbons for a better cell design [9,10]) or in advanced cells for producing solar fuels [11-13]. 

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