Tuning Transpiration by Interfacial Solar Absorber-Leaf Engineering

Tuning Transpiration by Interfacial Solar Absorber‐Leaf Engineering

Plant transpiration, a process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts especially leaves, consumes a large component of the total continental precipitation (≈48%) and significantly influences global water distribution and climate. To date, various chemical and/or biological explorations have been made to tune the transpiration but with uncertain environmental ris...

Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber

We demonstrate a broadband, polarization independent, wide-angle absorber based on a metallic metasurface architecture, which accomplishes greater than 90% absorptance in the visible and near-infrared range of the solar spectrum, and exhibits low absorptivity (emissivity) at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths. The complex unit cell of the metasurface solar absorber consists of eight pairs of gol...

Janus Nanoparticles by Interfacial Engineering

The intense research interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology is largely fueled by the unique properties of nanoscale materials that may deviate vastly from those of their constituent atoms and bulk forms. In order to exploit these unprecedented materials properties for the fabrication of next-generation devices and circuitries, two key aspects that are intimately related to each other have t...

Interfacial Layer Engineering for Performance Enhancement in Polymer Solar Cells

Improving power conversion efficiency and device performance stability is the most critical challenge in polymer solar cells for fulfilling their applications in industry at large scale. Various methodologies have been developed for realizing this goal, among them interfacial layer engineering has shown great success, which can optimize the electrical contacts between active layers and electrod...

Evapo-transpiration in Ecological Engineering