title: Carbon nanostructures for solar energy conversion schemes.
abstract: Developing environmentally friendly, renewable energy is one of the challenges to society in the 21st century. One of the renewable energy technologies is solar energy conversion--a technology that directly converts daylight into electricity. This highlight surveys recent breakthroughs in the field of implementing carbon nanostructures--fullerenes (0D), carbon nanotubes (1D), carbon nanohorns, and graphene (2D)--into solar energy conversion schemes, that is, bulk heterojunction and dye-sensitized solar cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Inter disciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany. dirk.guldi@chemie.uni-erlangen.de
authors.forename: Dirk M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Guldi
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sgobba