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UK team finds intermediate materials for solar fuels, batteries
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
Capturing these intermediates opens a new way to discover and design materials that are not accessible through typical synthetic methods. "When materials are ma...
Rice engineers suppress perovskite yellow-phase degradation with dual additives
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
Aditya Mohite and collaborators used two key additives in the precursor solution to create perovskite crystalline films that retained 98 percent of their initia...
Chiba team models energy alignment for perovskite solar cells
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
A team led by Professor Hiroyuki Yoshida from the Graduate School of Engineering published their findings in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A on March 14, 2...
Crystalline buffer layer pushes organic solar cells to 20.21 percent efficiency
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, addresses a persistent challenge in layer-by-layer deposition. During application of the top accepto...
LMU Munich Team Boosts Perovskite Solar Cell Performance With Surface Treatment Advance
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Perovskite solar cells have undergone rapid gains in power conversion efficiency in recent years, driven largely by the adoption of molecular charge-selective c...
Perovskite Diode Sets Records as Both a Solar Cell and an LED
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Metal-halide perovskites are a class of semiconductor materials named for their distinctive crystal structure that have emerged over the past decade as leading ...
Desert Renewable Grids Built To Survive Extreme Heat And Calm
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Growing interest in transitioning from fossil-fueled electricity to locally powered renewable grids has prompted communities such as the KAUST campus to explore...
Biochar Hydrogel Hybrid Pushes Solar Desalination to New Efficiency Levels
Apr 28, 2026 (SPX)
Freshwater scarcity continues to intensify globally, with the vast majority of Earth's water locked in oceans or saline sources. Conventional desalination metho...
Phase Change Foam Sustains Solar Desalination Through Low Light And Darkness
Apr 28, 2026 (SPX)
The material, designated PPy-CS/PF@DDA, is constructed by confining dodecylamine inside a polypyrrole-coated chitosan/phenolic resin foam. Polypyrrole harvests ...
Sungkyunkwan University and Clarivate Map Global Research Landscape of Perovskite Solar Cells
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The report traces the development of perovskite solar cell technology from its foundational milestone in 2012, when researchers at SKKU successfully developed t...
Contact Between Two Perovskite Films Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency and Durability Without Added Chemicals
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
Solar cells built using the technique achieved a certified power conversion efficiency of 25.61 per cent, independently verified by the Solar Energy Research In...
Molecular Engineering Pushes PTAA Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The approach uses pi-conjugation extension of triphenylamine-based semiconducting ligands. Two new ligands were designed - N-TPEAI (fused-ring) and P-TPEAI (cov...
Single Photo System Forecasts Solar Panel Output and Reveals Orientation Losses in Urban Settings
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
Graduate student Jeremy Klotz and professor Shree Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, developed the technique and tested it...
Improved Energy Management System Boosts Reliability of Off-Grid PV Fuel Cell Microgrids
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Stand-alone microgrids are important for supplying power in remote or isolated settings, but they can face power-quality and stability problems because renewabl...
Sensor-Free Prediction Method Guards Stirling Generators Against Piston Overshoot Damage
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Free piston Stirling generators, or FPSGs, are considered promising for solar thermal power because they offer a route to efficient thermal-to-electric energy c...
Robotic AI System Runs 50000 Perovskite Solar Cell Experiments and Hits 27 Percent Efficiency
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Using the system, the team carried out 50,764 perovskite solar cell device experiments, achieved a champion power conversion efficiency of 27.0 percent with a c...
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
To achieve record efficiencies, scientists typically use self-assembled monolayers, or SAMs, just one molecule thick to extract positive charges from the perovs...
AI Forecasting Method Lifts Solar Output by Optimizing Panel Tilt Angles
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Solar irradiance forecasting is important because photovoltaic power output depends directly on the amount of solar energy reaching a panel. In stand-alone PV s...
Electron Microscopy Alone Can Now Fully Characterize Organic Solar Cells
Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
"3D ED was the missing piece we needed to complete the electron microscopy toolbox," said Prof. Erdmann Spiecker, head of the Institute of Micro- and Nanostruct...
Study maps agrivoltaic tradeoffs for Midwest farms
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
The research team developed a process-based model to quantify how solar arrays installed over cropland affect energy capture, water use and plant-soil dynamics....
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