New research demonstrates great promise of all-inorganic perovskite solar cells for improving the efficiencies of solar cells. Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have already demonstrated very high…
Strong Sunlight Powers Passive Cooling Device A simple cooling system driven by the capture of passive solar energy could provide low-cost food refrigeration and living…
New approach could streamline inspection and keep solar panels operating efficiently. Researchers have developed and demonstrated a new system that can detect defects in silicon…
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the…
UIC engineers convert nitrates to ammonia in sustainable electrochemical reaction with high solar-to-fuel efficiency. Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have created a solar-powered electrochemical…
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have produced a more efficient type of solar cell, using laser processing and setting a new world record…
Scientists underscore the potential of a new class of materials to convert sunlight to fuel. Be it rising fuel prices or failures in electricity power…
University of Basel researchers have reached an important milestone in their quest to produce more sustainable luminescent materials and catalysts for converting sunlight into other…
Student-designed Nimbus solar car travels 1,109 miles in five days, averaging 38.4 miles per hour. After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric…
The desalter uses a cylinder and a solar collector. Ural Federal University (UrFU) power engineers have developed a new desalination technology. It will significantly reduce…
Researchers created a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and used a model to investigate how trying to meet the Paris Agreement global…
Holograms Increase Solar Energy Yield A newly developed holographic light collector boosts solar panel efficiency for an energy conversion increase of approximately five percent over…
Solar cells, which convert sunlight to electricity, have long been part of the global vision for renewable energy. Although individual cells are very small, when…
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals. Rice University engineers have created microscopic seeds for growing remarkably uniform 2D perovskite crystals that are…
Inspired by nature, researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) can demonstrate a synthetic strategy to stabilize bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials. Their…
A new study shows that several disagreements between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt around Africa’s largest hydropower plant, the new Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), could…
Entomologists say the pairing has promise, but standards will ensure it’s more than just buzz. Amid the steady growth of solar energy production in the…
Australian airports are ideal hosts for large-scale solar installations. A new study has found Australia’s government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes,…