The race to develop the battery of the future by Staff Writers Neuchatel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Yesterday, 80 handpicked guests inaugurated CSEM’s new Battery Innovation Hub (BIH) in Neuchatel. At the site, interdisciplinary teams will work on the “battery of tomorrow” in close partnership with local companies. This facility is the […]
Non-fused-ring donors and acceptors boost organic solar cell efficiency to over 14 pecent by Staff Writers Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Non-fused-ring organic photoactive materials have attracted broad attention in recent years due to their low synthetic cost. Different from the rigid coplanar structure of fused-ring molecules, the easily rotated conformation of […]
Physicists solve durability issue in next-generation solar cells by Staff Writers Toledo OH (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Physicists in the U.S. jumped a major hurdle standing in the way of the commercialization of solar cells created with halide perovskites as a lower-cost, higher-efficiency replacement for silicon when generating electricity from the sun. […]
Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient by Staff Writers Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications-computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells-is an abundant, naturally occurring material. However, it is expensive to […]
Using combustion to make better batteries by Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative Boston MA (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 For more than a century, much of the world has run on the combustion of fossil fuels. Now, to avert the threat of climate change, the energy system is changing. Notably, solar and […]
Which European country uses the most renewable energy? Sweden once again topped the list as the EU country with the highest share of renewable energy in 2021. The Nordic nation got almost two thirds (63 per cent) of its energy from renewable sources that year – in mainly from biomass, hydropower, wind, heat pumps and […]
