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Scientists Study the Stages of Perovskite Formation

Research about the sequential deposition reaction used to build perovskite solar panels, offering a fundamental understanding of perovskite formation.

5 Feb 2018

Magnetic Smart Window Could Improve Building Efficiency

A new smart window capable of altering its light permeability at the touch of a button, can also be simultaneously used for light harvesting.

18 Jan 2018

Microwires Used For Enhancing Efficiency of Solar Fuels

Researchers have made major efficiency enhancements to the technology used for producing solar fuels.

16 Jan 2018

Study Proposes Standardizing Measurements of Perovskite Aging

EPFL researchers have created a data-driven proposal for regulating the measurements of perovskite solar cell stability and degradation. Published in Nature Energy, the research focusses on creating consensus in the field and overcoming one of the big obstacles on the way to marketing perovskite photovoltaics.

2 Jan 2018

Working Towards Creation of Non-Electric Battery to Store Solar Energy

For years materials chemists have been attempting to develop a new type of battery that is capable of storing solar or other light-sourced energy in chemical bonds instead of electrons, one that will discharge the energy on demand as heat rather than as electricity – addressing the necessity for long-standing, stable, efficient storage of solar energy.

20 Dec 2017

Researchers Identify Large Non-Traditional Sites for Future Solar Farms

There is a tradeoff when expansive solar farms are built on agricultural land: farmland vanishes, perhaps forever, in return for progress in the promising renewable energy sector.

20 Dec 2017

First Practical Floating Solar Hydrogen-Generating Device for Seawater Electrolysis

Within a single hour, an increased amount of energy generated from the sun hits the Earth than all the energy utilized by humankind in one whole year.

18 Dec 2017

Research on Low-Carbon Transformation of Power Supply

A variety of low carbon technologies from solar energy or wind to fossil carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) greatly differ when talking about indirect greenhouse gas emissions in their life cycle.

11 Dec 2017

Researchers Invent a New ‘Double-Glazed’ Solar Power Device

University of Warwick researchers have now invented a new ‘double-glazing’ solar power device, which unlike any of the currently available solar panels, opens up new opportunities that will help develop more enhanced photovoltaics.

8 Dec 2017

Agrophotovoltaics May Help Increase Land Use Efficiency by more than 60%

Until recently, acreage was chosen for either photosynthesis or photovoltaics, that is, to produce grow crops or electricity. An agrophotovoltaics (APV) pilot project near Lake Constance, however, has currently showed that both uses are compatible.

28 Nov 2017