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Core–shell silica–rhodamine B nanosphere for synthetic opals: from fluorescence spectral redistribution to sensing

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Structural order and NIR reflective properties of perylene bisimide pigments: Experimental evidences from a combined multi-technique study

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Catalyst-Free Spontaneous Polymerization with 100% Atom Economy: Facile Synthesis of Photoresponsive Polysulfonates with Multifunctionalities

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Reshaping Hybrid Perovskites Emission with Flexible Polymer Microcavities

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EPJ Web Conf., 2020, 230, 00006
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Thin Polymer Films: Simple Optical Determination of Molecular Diffusion Coefficients

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ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2020, 2, 563
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Role of refractive index in highly efficient laminated luminescent solar concentrators

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Nano Energy, 2020, 70, 104470
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Construction of Laminated Luminescent Solar Concentrator “Smart” Window Based on Thermoresponsive Polymer and Carbon Quantum Dots

Bing Xu, Jianying Wang, Chen Cai, Wei Xin, Lai Wei, Qinsi Yang, Bo Peng, Yuandu Hu, Jinhua Li and Xianbao Wang

Crystals, 2022, 12, 1612
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From Landfill to Photonics: The Upcycling of Plastic Waste

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ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2024, 6, 6917
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Indoor/outdoor light-harvesting by coupling low-cost organic solar cell with a luminescent solar concentrator

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Solar Energy, 2020, 207, 379
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Design, fabrication and preliminary testing of plasmonic luminescent solar concentrator devices

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Minimizing Scaling Losses in High-Performance Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Large-Area Solar Windows

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ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 29679
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Perovskite Nanocrystals: Opportunities in Luminescent Solar Concentrators

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Heat Generated Using Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Building Energy Applications

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Energies, 2020, 13, 5574
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Controlled Synthesis of Long-Wavelength Multicolor-Emitting Carbon Dots for Highly Efficient Tandem Luminescent Solar Concentrators

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High Refractive Index Inverse Vulcanized Polymers for Organic Photonic Crystals

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Luminescence-guided and visibly transparent solar concentrators based on silicon quantum dots

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Black GaAs: Gold-Assisted Chemical Etching for Light Trapping and Photon Recycling

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Micromachines, 2020, 11, 573
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All-Silicone-based Distributed Bragg Reflectors for Efficient Flexible Luminescent Solar Concentrators

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NIR light-triggered self-healing waterborne polyurethane coatings with polydopamine-coated reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles

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Colourless luminescent solar concentrators based on Iridium(III)-Phosphors

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Strategies for Dielectric Contrast Enhancement in 1D Planar Polymeric Photonic Crystals

Paola Lova, Heba Megahd, Paola Stagnaro, Marina Alloisio, Maddalena Patrini and Davide Comoretto

Applied Sciences, 2020, 10, 4122
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The Role of Solar Spectral Beam Splitters in Enhancing the Solar-Energy Conversion of Existing PV and PVT Technologies

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Engineering all-polymer planar photonic crystals as aegises against sunlight overheating

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Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows

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Advanced Photonics Research, 2025, 6
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Construction of highly efficient carbon dots-based polymer photonic luminescent solar concentrators with sandwich structure

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Nanotechnology, 2022, 33, 305601
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Luminescent Solar Concentrators from Waterborne Polymer Coatings

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Coatings, 2020, 10, 655
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Distributed Bragg reflectors for the colorimetric detection of bacterial contaminants and pollutants for food quality control

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APL Photonics, 2020, 5
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Heteroaromatic Hyperbranched Polyelectrolytes: Multicomponent Polyannulation and Photodynamic Biopatterning

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Plant‐Based Structures as an Opportunity to Engineer Optical Functions in Next‐Generation Light Management

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Advanced Materials, 2022, 34
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Structure and Dynamics of Perylene Bisimide Pigments for “Cool” Organic Coatings by Solid-State NMR: A Combined Experimental and DFT Study

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All-polymer Planar Photonic Crystals as an Innovative Tool for the Analysis of Air

Paola Lova, Heba Megahd, Davide Comoretto and E. Puppin

EPJ Web Conf., 2020, 230, 00007
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Solution-Processed One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Based on Hollow Silica Exhibiting High Refractive Index Contrast

Qi Yuan, Minglu Zhang, Dongyu Wang, Yan Lv, Shuqi Liu, Hao-Yang Mi, Jian Han, Chuntai Liu and Changyu Shen

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, 16, 29141
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Flory–Huggins Photonic Sensors for the Optical Assessment of Molecular Diffusion Coefficients in Polymers

Paola Lova, Giovanni Manfredi, Chiara Bastianini, Carlo Mennucci, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Alberto Servida and Davide Comoretto

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 16872
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Luminescent solar concentrators performing under different light conditions

Yilin Li, Yujian Sun and Yongcao Zhang

Solar Energy, 2019, 188, 1248
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Heteroaromatic Hyperbranched Polyelectrolytes: Multicomponent Polyannulation and Photodynamic Biopatterning

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Red‐emitting tetraphenylethylene derivative with aggregation‐induced enhanced emission for luminescent solar concentrators: A combined experimental and density functional theory study

Cosimo Micheletti, Qinfan Wang, Francesco Ventura, Michele Turelli, Ilaria Ciofini, Carlo Adamo and Andrea Pucci

Aggregate, 2022, 3
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Sodium Alginate Cross-Linkable Planar 1D Photonic Crystals as a Promising Tool for Pb2+ Detection in Water

Andrea Dodero, Paola Lova, Silvia Vicini, Maila Castellano and Davide Comoretto

Chemosensors, 2020, 8, 37
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Regional measurements to analyze large-area luminescent solar concentrators

Yilin Li, Yujian Sun and Yongcao Zhang

Renewable Energy, 2020, 160, 127
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Boosting the cost-effectiveness of luminescent solar concentrators through subwavelength sanding treatment

Yilin Li, Yujian Sun and Yongcao Zhang

Solar Energy, 2020, 198, 151
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Prospects in Broadening the Application of Planar Solution‐Based Distributed Bragg Reflectors

Emilia Palo and Konstantinos S. Daskalakis

Adv Materials Inter, 2023, 10
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Review of the Fundamental Principles and Performances on Lminescent Solar Concentrators

Kukhyun Jo and Hyo Jung Kim

Appl. Sci. Converg. Technol., 2021, 30, 14
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Temperature tunable optical transmission using IR based 1D photonic crystals of VO2 nanostructures

Dipti Umed Singh, Omkar Bhoite and Remya Narayanan

J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2020, 53, 245106
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Catechol End-Capped Poly(arylene sulfide) as a High-Refractive-Index “TiO2/ZrO2-Nanodispersible” Polymer

Seigo Watanabe and Kenichi Oyaizu

ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2021, 3, 4495
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Luminescent Solar Collectors: Quo Vadis?

Jean Roncali

Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 10
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Vertically-aligned p-n junction Si solar cells with CdTe/CdS luminescent solar convertors

M. Semenenko, M. Dusheiko, G. Okrepka, R. Redko, S. Antonin, V. Hladkovskyi, V. Shvalagin, F. Gao, S. Shahan and A. Sarikov

Thin Solid Films, 2022, 761, 139536
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Incident-side-dependent mirror based on 1D photonic crystals containing VO2 nanoparticles

Samad Roshan Entezar

Phys. Scr., 2023, 98, 065532
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Mild Sol–Gel Conditions and High Dielectric Contrast: A Facile Processing toward Large-Scale Hybrid Photonic Crystals for Sensing and Photocatalysis

Simone Bertucci, Heba Megahd, Andrea Dodero, Sergio Fiorito, Francesco Di Stasio, Maddalena Patrini, Davide Comoretto and Paola Lova

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 19806
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Improved light absorption enables highly efficient carbon dots luminescent solar concentrator

Jishuai Lin, Lihua Wang, Xiangyong Meng, Weihua Li, Nan Ren, Lin Tao, Junlong Xiao, Qiang Jing, Yang Song and Haiguang Zhao

Applied Physics Letters, 2025, 126
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Tunable narrowband excitonic Optical Tamm states enabled by a metal-free all-organic structure

Miguel Castillo, Diogo Cunha, Carla Estévez-Varela, Daniel Miranda, Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Sara Núñez-Sánchez, Mikhail Vasilevskiy and Martin Lopez-Garcia

Nanophotonics, 2022, 11, 4879
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Solution Processed Polymer-ABX4 Perovskite-Like Microcavities

Paola Lova, Daniele Cortecchia, Cesare Soci and Davide Comoretto

Applied Sciences, 2019, 9, 5203
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Review on Colloidal Quantum Dots Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Andrew Kim, Alireza Hosseinmardi, Pratheep K. Annamalai, Pawan Kumar and Rajkumar Patel

ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 4948
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