Dec
13
Tiny Battery Technology Reaches 3.6 Volts
December 13, 2023 | Leave a Comment
University of Freiburg researchers have developed a monolithically integrated photo battery using organic materials that is capable of powering miniature devices. The photo battery achieves an unprecedented high discharge potential of 3.6 volts.. The team published the information about the technology in the journal Energy & Environmental Science. Networked intelligent devices and sensors can improve […]
Dec
12
New Solar Power Device Harvests Water For Drinking
December 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China developed a promising new solar-powered atmospheric water harvesting technology that could help provide enough drinking water for people to survive in those difficult, dryland areas. Their work was published in Applied Physics Reviews, an AIP Publishing journal. More than 2.2 billion people currently live in water-stressed […]
Dec
7
New Solar Hydrogen Production Record From Supercrystals
December 7, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures, a material that holds a new world record for green hydrogen production with sunlight. When Emiliano Cortés goes hunting for sunlight, he doesn’t use gigantic mirrors or solar farms. Quite the contrary, the professor of experimental physics and energy conversion at LMU dives into the nanocosmos. “Where […]
Nov
28
Saving The Energy Lost In Organic Solar Cells
November 28, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A Technical University of Munich (TUM) research group has shown that certain organic dyes can help build virtual highways for energy in organic solar cells. The sun sends enormous amounts of energy to the earth. Nevertheless, some of it is lost in solar cells. This is an obstacle in the use of organic […]
Oct
26
Breakthrough In Designing Perovskite Solar Cells
October 26, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… A University of Hong Kong (CityU) team has engineered a unique type of self-assembled monolayer, or SAM for short, and anchored it on a nickel oxide surface as a charge extraction layer for building perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells are a promising frontier in the solar energy landscape, known for their impressive power […]
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