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Scientists at APS used X-rays to study ion movement in perovskite crystals under UV radiation. Understanding this can improve stability, potentially achieving a 20-30 year solar cell lifetime and outperforming other solar cells.

Scientists from South-Africa's University of the Western Cape, University of Missouri and also Argonne National Laboratory have actually created a new way of boosting the stability and also performance of perovskites.

New materials that can both harvest and also emit light deal interesting possibility for modern technologies that vary from solar cells to television and display screens. In a new research, scientists have actually developed a new way of enhancing the stability and performance of a particular kind of these materials, called perovskites. A paper based upon the research study has actually been released in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.

Researchers uncover brand-new avenue for getting rid of the performance decline that occurs with duplicated charge-discharge cycling in the cathodes of next generation batteries.

Progress in used research at Argonne National Laboratory increases hopes that solid-state batteries will certainly change standard lithium-ion batteries quicker rather than later.

The sun supplies much more energy to Earth in one hour than mankind consumes over a whole year. Researchers worldwide are looking for materials that can cost-effectively and also efficiently record this carbon-free energy and transform it into power.

A prototype of an energy-harvesting, solar-powered smart home window tool has actually been created by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The home window was produced by incorporating a semi-transparent perovskite solar cell and a multi-layer nanophotonic finishing.