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Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications
The world population is growing by 1 billion people every 10 years. There will come a time when there will be more people to feed but less land to grow food. Greenhouses can be the solution to this problem because they provide the highest production yield per m(2) and also use less water, provide fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8124798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34062763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092357 |
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author | Sánchez-Lanuza, M. Barragán Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador Peñas-Sanjuan, Antonio Navas-Martos, Francisco J. Lillo-Bravo, Isidoro Delgado-Sánchez, José-María |
author_facet | Sánchez-Lanuza, M. Barragán Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador Peñas-Sanjuan, Antonio Navas-Martos, Francisco J. Lillo-Bravo, Isidoro Delgado-Sánchez, José-María |
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description | The world population is growing by 1 billion people every 10 years. There will come a time when there will be more people to feed but less land to grow food. Greenhouses can be the solution to this problem because they provide the highest production yield per m(2) and also use less water, provide food safety, and offer high quality. Photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) favors vegetable growth with a specific blue and red light ratio. Thus, increasing the amount of red light improves chlorophyll absorption and photosynthetic efficiency. In this article, we present a hybrid system that combines luminescent materials and photonic crystals for better management of the light reaching the greenhouse. The luminescent dyes considered herein are combined ensuring a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) nonradiative mechanism to enhance the absorption range. The designed photonic crystal maximizes reflections in the Near-Infrared (NIR) range, and therefore, thermal losses are minimized. Thus, by converting harmful or ineffective radiation for plant growth to the PAR region, we aim to demonstrate growth-condition enhancement for the different vegetables that have been used as a model. |
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spelling | pubmed-81247982021-05-17 Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications Sánchez-Lanuza, M. Barragán Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador Peñas-Sanjuan, Antonio Navas-Martos, Francisco J. Lillo-Bravo, Isidoro Delgado-Sánchez, José-María Materials (Basel) Article The world population is growing by 1 billion people every 10 years. There will come a time when there will be more people to feed but less land to grow food. Greenhouses can be the solution to this problem because they provide the highest production yield per m(2) and also use less water, provide food safety, and offer high quality. Photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) favors vegetable growth with a specific blue and red light ratio. Thus, increasing the amount of red light improves chlorophyll absorption and photosynthetic efficiency. In this article, we present a hybrid system that combines luminescent materials and photonic crystals for better management of the light reaching the greenhouse. The luminescent dyes considered herein are combined ensuring a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) nonradiative mechanism to enhance the absorption range. The designed photonic crystal maximizes reflections in the Near-Infrared (NIR) range, and therefore, thermal losses are minimized. Thus, by converting harmful or ineffective radiation for plant growth to the PAR region, we aim to demonstrate growth-condition enhancement for the different vegetables that have been used as a model. MDPI 2021-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8124798/ /pubmed/34062763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092357 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sánchez-Lanuza, M. Barragán Menéndez-Velázquez, Amador Peñas-Sanjuan, Antonio Navas-Martos, Francisco J. Lillo-Bravo, Isidoro Delgado-Sánchez, José-María Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title | Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title_full | Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title_fullStr | Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title_short | Advanced Photonic Thin Films for Solar Irradiation Tuneability Oriented to Greenhouse Applications |
title_sort | advanced photonic thin films for solar irradiation tuneability oriented to greenhouse applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8124798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34062763 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092357 |
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