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Future of Perovskite Solar Cells Shines a Little Brighter

June 23, 2021
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Okinawa, Japan — 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 upscaled to modules,...

Designing Selective Membranes for Batteries Using a Drug Discovery Toolbox

April 9, 2021
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Washington, DC — Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass through while blocking others are key enablers for energy technologies from batteries and fuel cells to resource refinement and...

Researchers harvest energy from radio waves to power wearable devices

March 26, 2021
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State College, PA — From microwave ovens to Wi-Fi connections, the radio waves that permeate the environment are not just signals of energy consumed but are also sources of energy themselves. An international...

Are Bacterial Probiotics’ a Game-Changer for Biofuels Industry?

March 11, 2021
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Kongens Lyngby, Denmark — In a study recently published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU) and Yale University have investigated...

New Method Converts Methane in Natural Gas to Methanol at Room Temperature

February 19, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered a way to convert the methane in natural gas into liquid methanol at room temperature. This discovery, reported in...

Tuning Electrode Surfaces to Optimize Solar Fuel Production

February 19, 2021
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Upton, NY — Scientists have demonstrated that modifying the topmost layer of atoms on the surface of electrodes can have a remarkable impact on the activity of solar water splitting. As they reported...

New Synthetic Route for Biofuel Production

February 9, 2021
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Bochum, Germany — A German-Chinese research team has found a new synthetic route to produce biofuel from biomass. The chemists converted the substance 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) produced from biomass...

Machine-Learning to Predict the Performance of Organic Solar Cells

January 29, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — Knowing how to predict the specific composition and cell design that would result in optimum performance is one of the greatest unresolved problems in materials science. This is, in...

Scientists Develop a Cheaper Method that might Help Create Fuels from Plants

January 12, 2021
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COLUMBUS, OH — Scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction at the heart of many biological processes, which may lead to better ways to create biofuels from...

New Discovery Opens Novel Pathway for High-Titer Production of Drop-In Biofuels

December 18, 2020
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Aarhus, Denmark — New discovery opens novel pathway for high-titer production of drop-in biofuels Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers...

New Understanding of Electrolyte Additives will Improve Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

September 7, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — Dye-sensitised solar cells used in low-light conditions could perform more consistently thanks to improved understanding of the role additives play in optimising electrolytes. Laptops...

Scientists Use Fruit Peel to Turn Old Batteries Into New

August 26, 2020
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Singapore — Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method of using fruit peel waste to extract and reuse precious metals from spent lithium-ion...

Molecular Additives Enhance Mechanical Properties of Organic Solar Cell Material

August 12, 2020
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Bethlehem, PA — Organic solar cells are ideal for use in flexible electronics because of the inherently malleable nature of semiconducting polymers. Recent research on the interplay between processing,...

Turning Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel

August 6, 2020
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Lemont, IL — Catalysts speed up chemical reactions and form the backbone of many industrial processes. For example, they are essential in transforming heavy oil into gasoline or jet fuel. Today, catalysts...

Crystal Structure Discovered Almost 200 Years Ago Could Hold Key to Solar Cell Revolution

July 3, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago. Not all materials...

Innovative Catalyst with Pt, Re and SnO2 Nanoparticles as Anode Material in Ethanol Fuel Cells

June 25, 2020
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Kraków, Poland — Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences designed and synthesized a functional ternary...

Supercapacitor Promises Storage, High Power and Fast Charging

May 6, 2020
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State College, PA — A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according to researchers...

Researchers Tackle a New Opportunity to Develop High-Energy Batteries

April 29, 2020
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Adelphi, MD — In recent years, lithium-ion batteries have become better at supplying energy to Soldiers in the field, but the current generation of batteries never reaches its highest energy potential....

Windows Will Soon Generate Electricity, Following Solar Cell Breakthrough

April 22, 2020
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Parkville, VIC, Australia — Semi-transparent solar cells that can be incorporated into window glass are a “game-changer” that could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity...

Research Team Develops a High-Capacity Battery Material Using Salmon DNA

April 17, 2020
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Sejong-si, Korea — A Korean research team has succeeded in developing next-generation high-capacity cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST,...

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