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- May 16
Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
Researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial fore (...) - May 15
Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers have shed new l (...) - May 15
Storage power plant on the seabed
A group of scientists aims to store electricity at the bottom of the sea. The energy will be stored with the help of high water pressure. (...) - May 14
Entrepreneur giving space shuttle truss new uses
A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric generator (...) - May 13
Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
Researchers are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what's available today. (...) - May 09
'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy. (...) - May 07
Value in concentrating solar power to add to electric grid calculated
Researchers have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power plants can add to an electric grid. (...) - May 06
Microwave oven cooks up solar cell material
Metallurgists used an old microwave oven to produce a nanocrystal semiconductor rapidly using cheap, abundant and less toxic metals than other semiconductors. They hope it will be used for more effici (...) - May 06
A giant leap to commercialization of polymer solar cell technology
Researchers in Korea have demonstrated high-performance polymer solar cells (PSCs) with power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.92% which is the highest values reported to date for plasmonic PSCs using (...) - May 03
How to clean seaweed from beaches: Dry it and use the biomass for energy
Scientists have developed an algae removal and treatment system that turns this underused residue into a renewable source of energy: biomass. The process involves several stages of washing, drying and (...) - May 02
How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy hitting walls
Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed. Researchers have s (...) - April 25
Nanostructures improve the efficiency of solar cells
Researchers have been able to improve the efficiency of solar cells by coating the cell surface with extremely small nanoscale structures. The new technology has been shown to nearly eliminate the ref (...) - April 24
New battery design could help solar and wind power the grid
Researchers have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid. (...) - April 23
New material approach should increase solar cell efficiency
A new research group brought together aspects of condensed matter physics, semiconductor device engineering, and photochemistry to develop a new form of high-performance solar photocatalyst based on t (...) - April 19
Research harnesses solar-powered proteins to filter harmful antibiotics from water
New research details how solar-powered proteins can be used to filter antibiotics and other harmful compounds from rivers and lakes at a significantly higher rate than present treatment standards. (...) - April 19
Revolutionary new device joins world of smart electronics: New flexible, transparent, photosensitive device
Smart electronics are taking the world by storm. From techno-textiles to transparent electronic displays, the world of intelligent technology is growing fast and a revolutionary new device has just be (...) - April 18
New solar-cell coating could enable a major boost in efficiency
Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser (...) - April 18
Battery low? Give your mobile some water
A power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest tap, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging device. (...) - April 16
Peel-and-stick solar cells
It may be possible soon to charge cell phones, change the tint on windows, or power small toys with peel-and-stick versions of solar cells, thanks to new research. (...) - April 16
Building a better capacitor with custom nanorods
A new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nanorods may lead to the next generation of high-performance capacitors. (...)
