Renewable energy sources (RES) such as Solar and Wind energy rely on the availability of natural resources like sunlight in the case of Solar and wind speed in the case of Wind energy generation which is variable in nature. There are periods where there is excess energy production than needed and periods of energy shortage where not enough energy i...
Published in Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
A silicon/porous multi-walled carbon nanotubes composite was synthesized using a simple method. A mixture comprising silicon nanoparticles and multi-walled carbon nanotubes was prepared by a mini ball milling method followed by annealing at low temperature. The low-temperature annealing treatment allows the aggregation of silicon nanoparticles and ...
Published in Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
The effect of multi-pass multi-directional forging (MDF) on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Zn–22Al–xSi (X = 4 and 8 wt. %) alloy, also known as SiP/ZA22 composite, was investigated. MDF process was applied at 100 °C for one, three, and five passes with the strain of 0.47 per pass. According to the results, MDF refined and homogeniz...
Silicon (Si) is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries with a high specific capacity, but the severe volume expansion and mechanical stress generated during electrochemical cycling hinders its practical application. Considering the coupled effect between electrochemical reaction and mechanical stress, the structure and stress evolutio...
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Solar grade silicon, needed to supply the ever-growing photovoltaic market, has to be purified from metallurgical silicon. The classical chemical route for purification has a high energy cost and environmental drawbacks. The alternative metallurgical route has to decrease its production cost to meet with the low market price. In this work, we study...
Published in European journal of inorganic chemistry
In recent decades, the chemistry of stable silylenes (R2Si:) has evolved significantly. The first major development in this chemistry was the isolation of a silicocene which is stabilized by the Cp* (Cp* = η5-C5Me5) ligand in 1986 and subsequently the isolation of a first N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi:) in 1994. Since the groundbreaking discoveries...
The most successful high efficiency design, and one of the oldest, is the multi-junction solar cell. There are a range of multijunction solar cell terminal configurations, the specificities of which are reviewed, concluding with noting the increased attention being given to three terminal designs. This introduces a new device design which is the Th...
In the present paper, we report on the investigation of thermal annealing (TA) effect on structural and optical properties of crystalline silicon nanowires produced by metal-assisted chemical etching approach. In particular, the impact of TA on nanowire length, relative volume and size distribution of voids is described in terms of Lifshitz-Slyozov...
Published in Optical and Quantum Electronics
Black silicon materials were obtained by irradiation with ns laser pulses in different ambient atmospheres. The surface morphology, optical properties, and electrical properties of the black silicon were investigated after the ablation by ns laser pulses. Slab-like structures and boundaries were formed on the surface of black silicon fabricated in ...
