In solar cells, about two third of the energy of sunlight is lost. Half of this loss is due to a process called 'hot carrier cooling' where high energy photons lose their excess energy in the form of heat before being converted ...
Materials Science
Apr 23, 2021
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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 energy technologies.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2021
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If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, you may see them shift and turn toward the sunlight through the day. It happens slowly, but surely.
Soft Matter
Feb 10, 2021
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Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich succeeded in developing a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can even be applied to textiles. This opens up numerous possibilities for producing energy directly ...
Nanophysics
Oct 22, 2020
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A study conducted by Associate Professor Alberto Salvo from the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences revealed that households respond to ambient air pollution ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2020
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For decades, researchers have been searching for a better battery. Now an international team presents a bold new solution: ditch the battery altogether.
Materials Science
May 27, 2020
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New experiments by researchers at The University of Manchester have placed the best limits yet on impermeability of graphene and other two-dimensional materials to gases and liquids. The work has also revealed that the carbon ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 12, 2020
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In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices and sensors will need to run without wires or batteries. In a new article in Chemical Science, researchers from Uppsala University ...
Materials Science
Mar 4, 2020
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Engineers at Lehigh University are the first to utilize a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a catalyst that uses the energy of captured sunlight to split water molecules to produce hydrogen. The synthesis ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2019
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To integrate volatile renewable sources into the energy supply, capacities of the power grid have to be increased. The need for new lines can be reduced by better utilization of existing lines as a function of weather conditions. ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 6, 2019
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