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Solar Aluminum Kitchen Foils with Omnidirectional Vivid Polarizonic Colors

Abdelaziz, Moheb; Homaeigohar, Shahin; Hedayati, Mehdi Keshavarz; Assad, Mhd Adel; Elbahri, Mady

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Authors

Moheb Abdelaziz

Shahin Homaeigohar

Mhd Adel Assad

Mady Elbahri



Abstract

To meet the need to the “customized eco‐friendly” design of flexible solar materials in vivid colors, here, the solar kitchen foils are devised which are selective, omnidirectional, and colored. The experimental and simulation results enable drawing the roadmap of the fabrication of glowing, colored flat foils for diverse energy, packaging, and decoration purposes. A new gold‐free golden foil, i.e., mimicking gold optically and visually, is designed as a prototype for the sustainable fabrication of advanced colored foils with glowing colors, e.g., golden with no need to neither hazardous anodization nor dying processes. The solar foil performs based on the newly developed concept of the polarizonic interference allowing production of omnidirectional structural colors by a disordered plasmonic nanocomposite. As the specific highlight, selective reflective coloration by plasmonic dipoles in a hybrid dielectric host, i.e., the building block of ultrathin solar absorbers with tailored, vivid colors, on an aluminum foil is demonstrated. In terms of the production technique, the applied sputtering technique is simple, versatile, cost‐effective, and compatible with the industrial packaging, decoration, and solar absorber manufacturing processes. Thus, it holds great promise for creation of advanced, flexible, colored solar absorbers in a simple, scalable, and sustainable fashion.

Citation

Abdelaziz, M., Homaeigohar, S., Hedayati, M. K., Assad, M. A., & Elbahri, M. (2019). Solar Aluminum Kitchen Foils with Omnidirectional Vivid Polarizonic Colors. Advanced Optical Materials, 7(15), Article 1900737. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900737

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 5, 2019
Online Publication Date Jun 21, 2019
Publication Date Aug 5, 2019
Deposit Date Jul 4, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jun 21, 2020
Journal Advanced Optical Materials
Electronic ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Issue 15
Article Number 1900737
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900737
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1298267

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Abdelaziz, Moheb, Homaeigohar, Shahin, Hedayati, Mehdi Keshavarz, Assad, Mhd Adel & Elbahri, Mady (2019). Solar Aluminum Kitchen Foils with Omnidirectional Vivid Polarizonic Colors. Advanced Optical Materials 7(15): 1900737., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900737. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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