Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Which materials work best for solar? NCSU scientists lay out framework for discovery
North Carolina State University-led researchers have created a logical dimension "structure" which can allow organic solar cell researchers as well as manufacturers to identify which products will generate one of the most stable solar cells before manufacture.
Jan 12, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, organic solar cells, North Carolina State University, Harald Ade, Brendan O’Connor, Masoud Ghasemi
New suggested multifunctional nanomaterial can enhance solar power, quantum computer
An irregular two-dimensional sandwich has the yummy component on the outside for researchers as well as engineers establishing multifunctional nanodevices.
Jan 12, 2021 // Technology, Solar Panels, Solar Energy, perovskites, Boris Yakobson, Jun-Jie Zhang, Dongyang Zhu
Supercapacitors difficulty batteries: graphene hybrid material gets to power thickness of batteries
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and also Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly reliable supercapacitor. The basis of the power storage device is a novel, powerful and likewise lasting graphene hybrid product that has equivalent performance information to currently utilized batteries.
Jan 11, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Graphene, Roland Fischer, TUM
New approaches for designing electroluminescent products
New study information exactly how a course of electroluminescent materials, crucial elements of devices such as LED lights and also solar cells, can be developed to function a lot more efficiently.
Jan 11, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, efficiently, Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Andrew M. Rappe, University of Tennessee, Universitat de Valencia, Harbin Institute of Technology, Arvin Kakekhani
Colorful solar modules via "Morpho Color"
German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has actually created procedures to create solar panels with a homogeneous and vibrantly tinted surface. The tinted parts could be integrated nearly secretly right into a facade or roof covering.
Jan 11, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe, PV module, Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Thomas Kroyer
Engineers locate anti-oxidants improve nanoscale visualization of polymers
Reactive particles, such as totally free radicals, can be generated in the body after direct exposure to certain atmospheres or materials and also go on to trigger cell damages. Anti-oxidants can lessen this damage by connecting with the radicals prior to they affect cells.
Jan 8, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, Enrique Gomez
Pollutants improve efficiency of organic solar cells
Sunshine uses a prospective service in the look for an energy resource that does not damage the planet, but this relies on discovering a method to successfully turn electro-magnetic power into electricity. Scientists from KAUST have demonstrated how a recognized herbicide can improve this conversion in natural devices.
Jan 7, 2021 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, KAUST, organic solar cells, Yuanbao Lin, Thomas Anthopoulos
Researchers have developed invisible solar panels which resemble windows
Scientists have actually developed the initial fully transparent solar panel in the hope that it may lead to a bigger rollout of solar power usage in domestic setups.
Jan 6, 2021 // Technology, Germany, South Korea, Europe, Asia, solar panel, Incheon University, Stuart Irvine
First glance of polarons creating in an appealing next-gen power material
Polarons are short lived distortions in a material's atomic latticework that develop around a moving electron in a couple of trillionths of a 2nd, then promptly disappear. As ephemeral as they are, they impact a material's actions, as well as might even be the reason that solar cells made with lead crossbreed perovskites attain astonishingly high effectiveness in the lab.
Jan 5, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, perovskite, North America, Stanford, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SIMES, Burak Guzelturk
Supercapacitors difficulty batteries
A team collaborating with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic as well as Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has actually created a very reliable supercapacitor. The basis of the power storage device is an unique, powerful as well as additionally sustainable graphene hybrid material that has comparable efficiency information to presently used batteries.
Jan 5, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Graphene, Roland Fischer, TUM
A polarization-driven guide to making high-performance, functional solar cells
Improving solar cell design is essential for improving energy usage. Researchers have lately focused on making solar cells more efficient, flexible, and mobile to enable their assimilation into everyday applications. Consequently, unique light-weight as well as flexible thin film solar cells have been developed.
Jan 5, 2021 // Technology, South Korea, solar cells, Asia, Youngho Kang
IIT Hyderabad Professor has a Lithium-CO2 Battery That Can Power The Mars Mission
An IIT Hyderabad associate teacher of the department of chemical design as well as innovative & advanced study, Chandra Sekhar Sharma, has actually created a Lithium-CO2 battery, which many believe might power India's area projects and the grand Mars Mission in 2024.
Jan 4, 2021 // Technology, Storage, India, Asia, Chandra Shekhar, Lithium-CO2 Battery, IIT Hyderabad
Bionic suggestion boosts lithium-ion extraction
Lithium is an energy-critical element that is considered to be a geopolitically substantial resource. However, the supply of lithium might not be enough to satisfy continuously boosting need. As a result, researchers are looking for brand-new ways to extract lithium ions.
Jan 4, 2021 // Technology, Storage, China, Asia, WEN Liping, lithium-ion extraction
Ionic Defect Landscape in Perovskite Solar Cells Revealed
The team of so-called steel halide perovskites as products has reinvented the area of photovoltaics in the last few years. Typically talking, steel halide perovskites are crystalline products that follow the struc-ture ABX3, with differing structure.
Dec 29, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Yana Vaynzof, Chemnitz University of Technology, Technical University of Dresden, Carsten Deibel, Sebastian Reichert
DIO ingredients add to effectiveness of polymer solar cells
Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and also Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have actually made progress in ultrafast characteristics of polymer solar cells (PSCs) with Soochow University.
Dec 28, 2020 // Technology, China, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, CAS, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics