Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Rechargeable batteries that utilize ammonium cations as charge carriers could provide ecofriendly and sustainable substitutes to metal-ion-based batteries, researchers at KAUST show.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) can be made with low-cost materials, are highly effective, can surpass conventional silicon solar cells, as well as have the prospective to reinvent renewable energy. However, one of the current drawbacks preventing their widespread usage has is their lack of functional stability.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have actually developed a system that can change plastic waste and also greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and various other valuable products-- utilizing power from the Sun. The team mentions that this is the first time that a system that can convert two waste streams into 2 chemical products at the same time has actually been achieved in a solar-powered reactor.

The University of New South Wales Sydney have actually been awarded $30 million under ARENA R&D Program to sustain R&D and commercialisation activities to significantly reduce the cost of solar. The scientists are going to receive $30 million for 9 projects across the cells and also modules stream, and the Balance of System, Operations as well as Maintenance stream.

A research collective project involving scientists from Sweden's Karlstad University and also Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as well as Weizmann Institute of Science will take a look at exactly how perovskite solar cells could recover and self-repair at night.

Scientists from Korea as well as United States have actually lately developed pyrolyzed quinacridones that exhibit high sodium-ion storage performance as well as cycling stability. Besides having physicochemical properties similar to that of lithium, sodium is both sustainable and cost-effective.

Researchers from Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University as well as Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have actually suggested a rapid crystallization method based on hot-antisolvent bathing for awareness of deep-blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs).

Chinese perovskite solar technology company Renshine Solar (Suzhou) has actually announced 29.0% steady-state power conversion efficiency of all-perovskite tandem solar cell created in-house. The company currently expects to surpass 30% in 2023.

University of Sydney's Professor Anita Ho-Baillie is joining forces with Sydney-based renewable technology firm SunDrive to commercialize perovskite-silicon cells, with support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) of AUD$ 2.78 million (over USD$ 1.9 million).

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led, University of Wisconsin-- Madison and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have actually developed a new method for making thin films of perovskite oxide semiconductors, a class of "smart" materials with distinct properties that can transform in response to stimuli like light, magnetic fields, or electrical fields.

Warwick University has actually been granted ₤ 2.2 million (over USD$ 2,620,000) to investigate metal halide perovskite compounds, for use in transparent and flexible photovoltaic panels, which stay stable precede. A new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer will be utilized to understand just how to enhance lifespan and durability of these solar cells.

Flexible perovskite solar cells with low weight, high flexibility, and conformability have stood out for portable electronic items. The interface is critical in perovskite solar cells for both solar efficiency and operational stability.

A team of scientists at EPFL have actually developed a method that improves both power conversion performance as well as stability of solar cells based upon pure iodide as well as mixed-halide perovskites.

Reports recommend that the Tokyo metropolitan government will certainly begin joint research study with a major Japanese chemical manufacturer on perovskite-based solar cells, that are film-thin, lightweight and bendable, as part of its efforts to promote the use of renewable resource.

Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have actually examined exactly how thermal evaporation (TE) could be used to produce small perovskite solar modules. TE are fully grown techniques that are typically utilized in the microelectronic and optoelectronic markets to create natural light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), metal contacts, as well as various coatings.