Cooling Homes Without Warming the Planet – New Technology for More Efficient AC
The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air…
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Big Breakthrough for “Massless” Energy Storage: Structural Battery That Performs 10x Better Than All Previous Versions
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that…
Automated Chemistry Combines Chemical Robotics and AI to Accelerate Pace for Advancing Solar Energy Technologies
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are automating the search for new materials to advance solar…
Analysis Reveals Plunge in Lithium-Ion Battery Costs – Further Steep Declines Possible
Analysis quantifies a dramatic price drop that parallels similar improvements in solar and wind energy, and shows further steep declines could be possible. The cost…
Cheaper Carbon Capture Is on the Way – Marathon Research Effort Drives Down Cost
PNNL-developed solvent breaks barriers, captures carbon for less than industrial counterparts. As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture,…
Breakthrough Means a Sustainable, Powerful Micro-Supercapacitor May Be on the Horizon
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon, thanks to an international collaboration of researchers from Penn State and the University of Electronic Science…
Swiss Scientists Generate Electricity From Wood
Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have made wood compressible and turned it into a micro-generator. When it is loaded, an electrical voltage is generated….
Twisting, Flexible Crystals Key to Advanced New Solar Cells
Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy properties. Researchers at Duke University have revealed long-hidden molecular dynamics that provide…
Machine Learning for Virtually Unlimited Solar Cell Experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead to higher efficiency functional materials…
“Photonic Sunflower” – Controlled by Light Alone, New Smart Materials Twist, Bend and Move
Technology paves way for intelligent solar cells, other highly efficient devices programmed at the macro and nano scale. Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering…
High-Performance Single-Atom Catalysts Developed for High-Temperature Fuel Cells
Individual Pt atoms participate in catalytic reactions to faciitate the electrode process by up to 10 times. Single-atom Pt catalysts are stable at 700 degrees…
Ultralow-Temperature Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon Aerogel – Could Power Mars & Polar Missions
NASA’s Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on a two-year mission to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples. Because…
The Mystery of the Missing Energy in Singlet Fission Solar Cells – Solved
Competition between triplet pair formation and excimer-like recombination controls singlet fission yield. The efficiency of solar cells can be increased by exploiting a phenomenon known…
Free 2021 Fuel Economy Guide: Tips to Improve a Vehicle’s Fuel Performance
Fuel economy can take a tumble when temperatures plummet, according to the Department of Energy’s 2021 Fuel Economy Guide (PDF). Compiled by researchers at Oak…
“Wearable Microgrid” Harvests Energy From Human Body to Power Electronic Gadgets
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a “wearable microgrid” that harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small…
Field Research Shows Icing Can Cost Wind Turbines Up to 80% of Power Production
Researchers led by Iowa State’s Hui Hu took their studies of wind-turbine icing out of the lab and into the field to learn how and…
Radiative Cooling and Solar Heating From One System – No Electricity Needed
Study describes passive cooling system that aims to help impoverished communities, reduce cooling and heating costs, lower CO2 emissions. Passive cooling, like the shade a…
Tuning Electrode Surfaces to Drive the Sunlight-Powered Reactions That Split Water Into Clean Fuel
An electrode material with modified surface atoms generates more electrical current, which drives the sunlight-powered reactions that split water into oxygen and hydrogen—a clean fuel….