Customizable Smart Windows Generate Electricity and Improve Energy Efficiency
A customizable smart window harnesses and manipulates solar power to save energy and cut costs. Windows play multiple crucial roles in our homes. They illuminate,…
A customizable smart window harnesses and manipulates solar power to save energy and cut costs. Windows play multiple crucial roles in our homes. They illuminate,…
One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie.” Using a unique combination of nanoscale imaging and chemical…
New approach offers practical way to make multilayer perovskite solar cells. Although perovskites are a promising alternative to the silicon used to make most of…
Electricity generated by interactions between water molecules and metals may be turned into a source of energy, Tel Aviv University research reveals. The search for…
New roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens. A new way of making large sheets of…
Highly energetic, “hot” electrons have the potential to help solar panels more efficiently harvest light energy. But scientists haven’t been able to measure the energies…
Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels — which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one — and single-axis tracking technology that tilts…
Etching the Road to a Hydrogen Economy Using Plasma Jets Hydrogen is a clean energy source that can be produced by splitting water molecules with…
Perovskite crystals could underpin cheap renewable energy. Australian scientists have for the first time produced a new generation of experimental solar energy cells that pass…
Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation…
‘Artificial leaf’ concept inspires Rice University research into solar-powered fuel production. Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce…
A clear semiconductor based on tin could improve solar power generation. Mobility is a key parameter for semiconductor performance and relates to how quickly and…
Tremendous amounts of hydrogen and methane can be stored in nanoscopic pores. A research team led by Northwestern University has designed and synthesized new materials…
Scientists develop a method to convert Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) satellite data into detailed information about cloud cover properties, enhancing the ability to forecast…
Successful development of photovoltaic commercialization technology with improved quantum dot efficiency. The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with…
Researchers developed a promising graphene–carbon nanotube catalyst, giving them better control over hugely important chemical reactions for producing hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells and water electrolyzers…
UMass Amherst researchers discover new building blocks of catalyst zeolite nanopores. Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into…
Material, synthesized by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania scientists, which self-assemble to form a molecular-thick electrode layer, presents a facile way of realizing highly…