Current solar to thermal energy conversion technologies, including concentrated solar power (CSP) and solar water heaters (SWH) utilize absorber surfaces that collect incident solar radiation. However, these absorber surfaces emit thermal energy (at their temperature) in the infrared (IR) spectrum, resulting in decreased overall efficiency for solar-to-thermal conversion. Selective absorber sur...

The advent of novel organic and inorganic nanomaterials in recent years, particularly nanostructured carbons, conducting polymers, and metal oxides, has enabled the fabrication of various energy devices with enhanced performance. In this paper, we review in detail different nanomaterials used in the fabrication of electrochemical capacitor electrodes and also give a brief overview of electric d...

1 Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados, S. C. (CIMAV, Unidad Monterrey), GENES-Group of Embedded Nanomaterials for Energy Scavenging, Apodaca 66600, Mexico 2 KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Stockholm 10044, Sweden; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.:...