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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Honeycomb Cell Structures Formed in Drop-Casting CNT Films for Highly Efficient Solar Absorber Applications.

Saiful Islam, Hiroshi Furuta

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Saiful IslamSchool of Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi 782-8502, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3946-158X
Hiroshi FurutaSchool of Systems Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi 782-8502, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3129-0894

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Abstract

This study investigates the process of using multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) coatings to enhance lamp heating temperatures for solar thermal absorption applications. The primary focus is studying the effects of the self-organized honeycomb structures of CNTs formed on silicon substrates on different cell area ratios (CARs). The drop-casting process was used to develop honeycomb-structured MWCNT-coated absorbers with varying CAR values ranging from ~60% to 17%. The optical properties were investigated within the visible (400-800 nm) and near-infrared (934-1651 nm) wavelength ranges. Although fully coated MWCNT absorbers showed the lowest reflectance, honeycomb structures with a ~17% CAR achieved high-temperature absorption. These structures maintained 8.4% reflectance at 550 nm, but their infrared reflection dramatically increased to 80.5% at 1321 nm. The solar thermal performance was assessed throughout a range of irradiance intensities, from 0.04 W/cm

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CNTsdrop-casting techniquehoneycomb structuresolar absorbersolar radiation intensityspectral selectivity

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PMID39452969
PMCPMC11510551

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