Themed collection Recent Reviews in EES Solar

Antimony chalcogenides represent a promising thin-film solar cell technology, offering inherently high stability, and with the potential to approach the Shockley–Queisser efficiency limit of ∼33%.

This perspective explores the central role of energy in human development and argues that a sustainable energy transition is feasible with current technologies—especially solar PV—requiring investments of ∼1% of global GDP.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of spectrally selective absorber coatings, tracing developments from conventional metal nitrides to state-of-the-art high-entropy nitrides.

This review provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of DD modeling approaches in perovskite solar cells, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and opportunities for improvement.

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in photocatalytic ammonia decomposition for hydrogen production, focusing on both gas-and liquid-phase processes, and guidance for the rational design of next-generation photocatalytic systems.

Inorganic perovskite solar cells have attracted significant attention. This review comprehensively discusses challenges and recent strategies for Pb-, Sn-, and Pb–Sn-based inorganic perovskite solar cells to improve their performance and stability.

This review examines strategies to surpass the Shockley–Queisser limit by addressing thermalization and sub-bandgap losses. It introduces the lattice energy reservoir as a unified mechanism enabling energy recycling in single-junction solar cells.

This review highlights recent advances in CO₂ photocatalytic reduction using polyoxometalate composites (MOFs/g-C₃N₄/LDHs), offering insights to optimize performance.

The design of active sites is crucial for CO₂ photoreduction. This review focuses on tailoring C₁ and C₂ products by strategically modulating light absorption, charge separation, and protonation processes.

Schematic illustration of a carbazole-based self-assembled monolayer (SAM) functioning as a hole transport layer in a thin-film organic solar cell.

Recent progress of covalent organic frameworks as heterogeneous photocatalysts has been reviewed, covering design strategies and their applications in photocatalytic H₂ evolution, CO₂ reduction, organic transformation, and H₂O₂ production.

As solar energy emerges as a pivotal renewable energy source, the environmental challenge of end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) module disposal intensifies.