High-Performance CuInS₂ Quantum Dot Laminated Glass Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Windows

Building-integrated sunlight harvesting utilizing laminated glass luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) is proposed. By incorporating high quantum yield (>90%), NIR-emitting CuInS₂/ZnS quantum dots into the polymer interlayer between two sheets of low-iron float glass, a record optical efficiency of 8.1% is demonstrated for a 10 cm × 10 cm device that transmits ∼44% visible light. After completing prototypes by attaching silicon solar cells along the perimeter of the device, the electrical power conversion efficiency was certified at 2.2% with a black background and at 2.9% using a reflective substrate. This “drop-in” LSC solution is particularly attractive because it fits within the existing glazing industry value chain with only modest changes to typical glazing products. Performance modeling predicts >1 GWh annual electricity production for a typical urban skyscraper in most major U.S. cities, enabling significant energy cost savings and potentially “net-zero” buildings

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Annotation of unigenes targeted by miRNA

Geographic distribution of 203 accessions based on their latitude and longitude.

<p>ARO: <i>Aromatic</i>; AUS: <i>aus</i>; IND: <i>Indica</i>; TRJ: <i>Tropical japonica</i>; TEJ: <i>Temperate japonica</i>; ARO-TEJ-TRJ: admixture of ARO with TEJ and TRJ; AUS-IND: admixture of AUS with IND; AUS-TRJ-IND: admixture of AUS with TRJ and IND; TEJ-TRJ: admixture of TEJ with TRJ and TRJ-IND: admixture of TRJ with IND. ★: Stuttgart AR, ☆: Beaumont TX.</p

Statistical analysis of 14 traits generated at Stuttgart, Arkansas and Beaumont, Texas in 2009 in the USDA rice mini-core collection.

<p>Statistical analysis of 14 traits generated at Stuttgart, Arkansas and Beaumont, Texas in 2009 in the USDA rice mini-core collection.</p

Structure analysis of USDA rice mini-core collection using A: <i>STRUCTURE</i>, B: Unrooted UPMGA and C: PCA.

<p>ARO: <i>aromatic</i> in red; AUS: <i>aus</i> in green; IND: <i>Indica</i> in purple; TRJ: <i>Tropical japonica</i> in yellow; TEJ: <i>Temperate japonica</i> in blue; ARO-TEJ-TRJ: admixture of ARO with TEJ and TRJ; AUS-IND: admixture of AUS with IND; AUS-TRJ-IND: admixture of AUS with TRJ and IND; TEJ-TRJ: admixture of TRJ with TEJ; TRJ-IND: admixture of TRJ with IND.</p

Relationship map constructed by PCA for 14 traits at A: Stuttgart, AR and B: Beaumont, TX.

<p>The distance between traits is inversely proportional to the size of the correlation coefficients. <i>Solid</i> and <i>dashed lines</i> indicate positive and negative correlations, respectively. Trait names are T1:Heading; T2:Plant height; T3:Plant weight; T4:Tillers; T5:Grain yield; T6:Harvest index; T7:Panicle length; T8:Panicle branches; T9:Kernels/panicle; T10:Seed set; T11:1000 Seed weight; T12:Kernels/cm panicle; T13:Kernels/branch panicle; T14: weight/panicle. The variation explained by the principal components is showed in the brackets.</p

The physical position of marker loci significantly associated with sheath blight in our study (with underlines) in comparison with previous studies.

<p>The black bars show the estimated location according to their flanking markers. The positions of marker loci were cited from the Annotated Nipponbare Sequence 2009 on Gramene (<a href="http://www.gramene.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gramene.org/</a>).</p

Association of markers with straighthead phenotype using two recombined inbred line (RIL) F₉ populations and a global germplasm collection including 72 accessions (some germplasm accessions had no parental alleles for a certain marker).

a<p>The accessions or RILs selected for marker verification were either resistant with straighthead rating 4 or below or susceptible with rating 6 or above in global germplasm collection and two F₉ populations.</p>b<p>A total of 34 accessions were selected for verification of AP3858-1 because remaining 38 had either no alleles of or different from parental Zhe733, R312, Cocodrie and Jing185, and for the same reason, 42 accessions were applied for verification of InDell 11. Hybrid genotypes were included as the resistance group since resistance was dominant over susceptibility.</p

Polymorphic SSR markers designed for fine mapping straighthead resistance QTL <i>qSH-8</i> on chromosome (chr) 8 using two recombined inbred line (RIL) F₉ populations.

<p>Polymorphic SSR markers designed for fine mapping straighthead resistance QTL <i>qSH-8</i> on chromosome (chr) 8 using two recombined inbred line (RIL) F₉ populations.</p

The structure analysis divided our population into five groups, which was validated by the principal components analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis.

<p>(A) Population structure analysis of 217 sub-core entries showing five sub-groups, the estimated membership probability listed on the y-axis and each entry represented by a thin vertical line in different color: red = ARO, <i>aromatic</i>; blue = AUS, <i>aus</i>; pink = IND, <i>indica</i>; green = TEJ, <i>temperate japonica</i> and yellow = TRJ, <i>tropical japonica</i>. (B) The spatial distribution of the entries with two dimensions in the principal components analysis (PCA). (C) The unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) tree based on Nei's genetic distance using five sub-group partitioning.</p