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Dye-sensitized solar cells with carbon-based counter electrodes can achieve efficiency similar to solar cells containing expensive platinum-based electrodes at a fraction of the cost.
Porous silica nanoparticles release trapped guest molecules in response to multiple stimuli for applications including disease diagnostics, imaging and drug delivery.