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Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Liu, D., Flor, J., Shank, K., Baig, H., Wilson, R., …Wu, Y. (2020). Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems. Renewable Energy, 145, 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.061

Integrating photovoltaics into windows provides the possibility of including an additional function of energy production to a conventional building fenestration component. There is no doubt that electrical power can be generated on-site. However, the... Read More about Analysis of the daylight performance of window integrated photovoltaics systems.

Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics (2019)
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Day, J., Senthilarasu, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 199, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2019.04.013

A major challenge facing silicon solar cells used in building-integrated concentrator photovoltaics (BICPV) is their reduced electrical response when exposed to light of short or long wavelengths. In an attempt to tackle this problem, single cell sta... Read More about Enhanced efficiency for building integrated concentrator photovoltaic modules based on rare earth doped optics.

Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Das, P. P., Selvaraj, P., Devi, P. S., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 380, Article 111824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.04.035

Mesoporous transparent conducting oxide, CdSnO3 has been synthesized using ultrasonication assisted co-precipitation method. Rather employing any template or structure directing agent, the co-precipitation effect of sodium hydroxide and citric acid w... Read More about Template free synthesis of CdSnO3 micro-cuboids for dye sensitized solar cells.

Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration (2019)
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Selvaraj, P., Ghosh, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration. Renewable Energy, 141, 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.03.146

For any particular location glazing transmission varies with season and time of day. Thus, glazing transmission angular behaviour is more crucial than single glazing transmittance value for building energy simulation and design. In this work, the spe... Read More about Investigation of semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells for fenestration integration.

An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system (2019)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Khanna, S., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2019). An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system. Journal of Energy Storage, 23, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2019.03.010

The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the melting characteristics of a PCM cylindrical thermal storage system using experimental and numerical approaches. Three inclination positions are considered from vertical to horizontal. Paraf... Read More about An experimental and numerical study on the effect of inclination angle of phase change materials thermal energy storage system.

Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio (2019)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Shanks, K., Baig, H., Zhang, W., Hao, X., Li, Y., He, B., Wilson, R., Liu, H., Sundaram, S., Zhang, J., Xie, L., Mallic, T., & Wu, Y. (2019). Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio. Energy Procedia, 158, 3014-3019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.976

When integrated photovoltaics into building windows, the solar cells will absorb a fraction of solar radiation that hit on the window surface to generate electrical power and thus obstruct the solar energy and natural daylight that would have penetra... Read More about Integrated CdTe PV glazing into windows: energy and daylight performance for different window-to-wall ratio.

Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials (2019)
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Al Siyabi, I., Shanks, K., Khanna, S., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials. Materials Letters, 241, 219-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.01.129

In concentrating photovoltaic (CPV), increasing the incoming sunlight to the solar cell influences the performance of the solar cells. The optical efficiency of the CPV components is a key factor to improve the electrical efficiency. Two types of hom... Read More about Evaluation of concentrating photovoltaic performance under different homogeniser materials.

Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells (2019)
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Sambathkumar, S., Priyadharshini, S., Fleisch, M., Bahnemann, D., Kumar, G. G., Senthilarasu, S., & Renganathan, R. (2019). Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells. Materials Letters, 242, 28-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.01.091

Two imidazole – triphenylamine based organic dyes (SD1 and SD2) configured with donor -donor-π-acceptor (D2-π-A) structures with reported dye material namely TPA B5 were synthesized using different acceptor units and characterized by various spectros... Read More about Design and synthesis of imidazole-triphenylamine based organic materials for dye sensitized solar cells.

Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Devi, P. S., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Omega, 4(1), 1130-1138. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02628

In this paper, dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance of the less explored polymorph of TiO2, rutile, has been explored, and its performance has been modified with polyaniline (PANI) wrapping on the surface. For this purpose, highly crystalline... Read More about Polyaniline-layered rutile TiO2 nanorods as alternative photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells.

India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report. (2018)
Report
Benson, D., Parker, B., Mishra, V., Muthukumar, K., & Sundaram, S. (2018). India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report

Untreated industrial wastewater pollution, primarily from textile production, threatens water resources in central Tamil Nadu, India, where the Noyyal River flows through several densely populated urban centres. The workshop consequently aimed at kno... Read More about India-UK Workshop on knowledge transfer on the sustainability of innovative wastewater treatment technologies to India: Final Report..