Photoconductive Carbon Nanotube (CNT): A Potential Candidate for Future Renewable Energy

Abstract:

Human population has always been advocated to use exosomatic energy, exist in abundance in Mother Nature. As of today world's population has reached to 7.1 billion, which will be exceeding 8.0 billion by 2050. To fulfill the energy demand of increasing population, world existing energy should be increased by >50% by 2050. The question is do we have enough energy resources to meet the future energy demand Secondly, the use of reserved gas, oil, coal and other carbon-based energy sources would continue to emitgreenhouse gases which are estimated to warm up the world by 2°C by 2020, raising the sea level which will dwindle the world cultivable land. This paradigm shift has called foreffective, sensitive and advanced technologies dealing with the production, harvesting, conversion and distribution of renewable energy to meet the future energy needs. This paper has highlighted the potential applications of carbon nanotube (CNT) based composites to harvest the unlimited solar energy into electrical, mechanical and other forms of useful energy for human benefits. The competitive performances of CNTs in solar cells would build multibillion dollar energy market using green chemistry principles, reducing green house emission and ensuring enough energy for the future generations.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 925)
• Pages: 48-51
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.925.48
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid*, Rasel Das, Md Eaqub Ali
• Keywords: Carbon Nanotube Composite, Renewable Energy, Solar Cell

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