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Increasing worldwide demand on energy and the limited amounts of nonrenewable fossil fuels have stimulated intense research and development efforts on renewable energy, in the areas of solar cells, energy storage, fuel cells, and water splitting, to name a few. However, widespread applications of renewable energy have not been very successful mainly due to the high cost of materials and underdeveloped processing and fabrication techniques.
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Lin, Z., Wang, J. (2014). Introduction. In: Lin, Z., Wang, J. (eds) Low-cost Nanomaterials. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6473-9_1
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