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Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance (2016)
Book
Sundaram, S., Benson, D., & Kumar Mallick, T. (2016). Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/c2014-0-04034-8

Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book review... Read More about Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance.

Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications (2016)
Data
Arumugam, S., Li, Y., Sundaram, S., Torah, R., Kanibolotsky, A. L., Inigo, A., Skabara, P. J., & Beeby, S. (2016). Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/376690

This paper presents the novel use of spray coating to fabricate organic solar cells on fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications. The surface roughness of standard woven 65/35 polyester cotton fabric used in this work is of the order of 150... Read More about Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications.

Prototype fabrication and experimental investigation of a conjugate refractive reflective homogeniser in a cassegrain concentrator (2016)
Journal Article
Shanks, K., Baig, H., Singh, N. P., Senthilarasu, S., Reddy, K., & Mallick, T. K. (2017). Prototype fabrication and experimental investigation of a conjugate refractive reflective homogeniser in a cassegrain concentrator. Solar Energy, 142, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.11.038

The conjugate refractive reflective homogeniser (CRRH) is experimentally tested within a cassegrain concentrator of geometrical concentration ratio 500× and its power output compared to the theoretical predictions of a 7.76% increase. I–V traces are... Read More about Prototype fabrication and experimental investigation of a conjugate refractive reflective homogeniser in a cassegrain concentrator.

Zirconium oxide post treated tin doped TiO2 for dye sensitized solar cells (2016)
Journal Article
Akila, Y., Muthukumarasamy, N., Agilan, S., Senthilarasu, S., & Velauthapillai, D. (2017). Zirconium oxide post treated tin doped TiO2 for dye sensitized solar cells. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 57, 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2016.09.028

Sn doped TiO2 nanorods with 0.1, 0.25%, 0.5% and 1% dopant compositions were grown by sol-gel and hydrothermal method. Synthesized Sn doped TiO2 nanorods were post treated with Zr and HNO3 and used as photo anode in DSSC with Ru dye and dye extracted... Read More about Zirconium oxide post treated tin doped TiO2 for dye sensitized solar cells.

Thermal regulation of building-integrated concentrating photovoltaic system using phase change material (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al Siyabi, I., Sharma, S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2016, April). Thermal regulation of building-integrated concentrating photovoltaic system using phase change material. Presented at 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS (CPV-12), Freiburg, Germany

Thermal regulation of building-integrated concentrating photovoltaic (BICPV) systems have a direct influence on the photovoltaic performance. This paper investigates the thermal behavior of a BICPV and phase change material (PCM) system through numer... Read More about Thermal regulation of building-integrated concentrating photovoltaic system using phase change material.

Sea grass like arranged TiO2 nanorods sensitized by natural dyes for solar cell applications (2016)
Journal Article
Akila, Y., Muthukumarasamy, N., Agilan, S., Senthilarasu, S., & Velauthapillai, D. (2016). Sea grass like arranged TiO2 nanorods sensitized by natural dyes for solar cell applications. Applied Physics A, 122, Article 719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0236-z

Rutile-phase seagrass-like-arranged TiO2 nanorods have been synthesized by low-temperature template-free hydrothermal method. These TiO2 nanorods have been sensitized by flowers of Sesbania grandiflora, leaves of Camellia sinensis and roots of Rubia... Read More about Sea grass like arranged TiO2 nanorods sensitized by natural dyes for solar cell applications.

Molecular docking studies on potent adsorbed receptor of Thrh protein: A new target for biodegradation of indigo dye (2016)
Journal Article
Prabhavathi, P., Rajendran, R., Sundaram, S. K., Dinesh Kumar, S., Santhanam, P., Premnath, D., Ponmari, G., Manikandan, A., & Mi-Kyung, K. (2016). Molecular docking studies on potent adsorbed receptor of Thrh protein: A new target for biodegradation of indigo dye. Journal of Bioremediation and Biodegradation, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-6199.1000356

Vat dyes are aromatic compounds widely used for denim textile industries, this result in a great wastewater problem from this industry due to recalcitrant nature of these dyes. The active protein (ThrH) was purified from Pseudomonas aeruginosa by DEA... Read More about Molecular docking studies on potent adsorbed receptor of Thrh protein: A new target for biodegradation of indigo dye.

The application of graphene and its derivatives to energy conversion, storage, and environmental and biosensing devices (2016)
Journal Article
Tahir, A. A., Ullah, H., Sudhagar, P., Mat Teridi, M. A., Devadoss, A., & Sundaram, S. (2016). The application of graphene and its derivatives to energy conversion, storage, and environmental and biosensing devices. Chemical Record, 16(3), 1591-1634. https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.201500279

Graphene (GR) and its derivatives are promising materials on the horizon of nanotechnology and material science and have attracted a tremendous amount of research interest in recent years. The unique atom-thick 2D structure with sp2 hybridization and... Read More about The application of graphene and its derivatives to energy conversion, storage, and environmental and biosensing devices.

A selective metasurface absorber with an amorphous carbon interlayer for solar thermal applications (2016)
Journal Article
Wan, C., Ho, Y., Nunez-Sanchez, S., Chen, L., Lopez-Garcia, M., Pugh, J., Zhu, B., Selvaraj, P., Mallick, T., Senthilarasu, S., & Cryan, M. (2016). A selective metasurface absorber with an amorphous carbon interlayer for solar thermal applications. Nano Energy, 26, 392-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.05.013

This paper presents fabrication, measurement and modelling results for a metal-dielectric-metal metasurface absorber for solar thermal applications. The structure uses amorphous carbon as an inter-layer between thin gold films with the upper film pat... Read More about A selective metasurface absorber with an amorphous carbon interlayer for solar thermal applications.

Enhanced performance of natural dye sensitised solar cells fabricated using rutile TIO2 nanorods (2016)
Journal Article
Akila, Y., Muthukumarasamy, N., Agilan, S., Mallick, T. K., Senthilarasu, S., & Velauthapillai, D. (2016). Enhanced performance of natural dye sensitised solar cells fabricated using rutile TIO2 nanorods. Optical Materials, 58, 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.05.009

Due to the lower cost, natural dye molecules are good alternatives for the ruthenium based sensitizers in the dye-sensitized solar cells. In this article, we have reported the natural sensitizer based dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated using TiO2... Read More about Enhanced performance of natural dye sensitised solar cells fabricated using rutile TIO2 nanorods.