There is an increasing trend of using carbon
based nanostructured materials as components in solar cells.
Not exact matches
Professor Laura Cipolla, from the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «
Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and
nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»
He has pioneered the use of nanomaterials in energy storage devices and has created numerous breakthrough
materials -
based solutions that dramatically improve battery capacity and cycle life, including
nanostructured silicon anodes, sulfur cathodes, and stable lithium metal anodes.
A novel
nanostructured material based on tantalum oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.