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Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review (2019)
Journal Article
Li, G., Xuan, Q., Akram, M. W., Golizadeh Akhlaghi, Y., Liu, H., & Shittu, S. (2020). Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review. Applied energy, 260, Article 114288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114288

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In the building sector, concerns towards the vast energy consumption has promoted the development of renewable energy technologies. In this regards, the solar concentration devices show a promising concept for building application... Read More about Building integrated solar concentrating systems: A review.

Building integrated thermoelectric air conditioners—a potentially fully environmentally friendly solution in building services (2019)
Journal Article
Ma, X., Zhao, H., Zhao, X., Li, G., & Shittu, S. (2019). Building integrated thermoelectric air conditioners—a potentially fully environmentally friendly solution in building services. Future Cities and Environment, 5(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/fce.76

The refrigerants used in conventional vapor-compression air conditioning systems have detrimental effects on the global environment. Phasing-down hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants for HVAC equipment over the next 20 years has been proposed. A ther... Read More about Building integrated thermoelectric air conditioners—a potentially fully environmentally friendly solution in building services.

A review of solar photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid system for electricity generation (2018)
Journal Article
Li, G., Shittu, S., Diallo, T. M., Yu, M., Zhao, X., & Ji, J. (2018). A review of solar photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid system for electricity generation. Energy, 158, 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.021

Solar energy application in a wider spectrum has the potential for high efficiency energy conversion. However, solar cells can only absorb photon energy of the solar spectrum near the solar cell band-gap energy, and the remaining energy will be conve... Read More about A review of solar photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid system for electricity generation.