This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. Credit: NASA Photovoltaics may be more practical for long stays on MarsMars is the second…
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The solar cell with the ferrocene layer highlighted. Credit: Li et al. 2022 New solar cell devices that are cheaper and easier to make could…
Researchers have taken a step forward in developing an energy system that makes it possible to capture solar energy, store it for up to 18…
A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 percent efficiency – measured according to the fraction of photons converted into…
ESA is working on the concept of collecting solar power up in orbit, where sunlight is up to 11 times more intense than across European…
The device generates electricity at night from the temperature difference between the solar cell and its surroundings. Credit: Sid Assawaworrarit Harvesting energy from the temperature…
Map of solar exposure over 24 hours at each Solar Protocol sun-powered network server. Credit: Tega Brain, Benedetta Piantella Global network of solar-powered servers shows…
Dust that accumulates on solar panels is a major problem, but washing the panels uses huge amounts of water. MIT engineers have now developed a…
An algorithm helps to find new efficient solar cell materials by reassembling already known molecular building blocks of solar cells and simulating the resulting molecules.…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge used 3D printing to create grids of high-rise ‘nano-housing’ where sun-loving bacteria can grow quickly. The researchers were then…
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that is more efficient and less expensive than previous methods. In this schematic, a confined water layer…
A model solar fuels device called a photoelectrochemical cell. A research team led by Francesca Toma, a staff scientist at the Liquid Sunlight Alliance in…
Southwest Research Institute worked with government and commercial collaborators to successfully develop and demonstrate full-scale turbomachinery for one of the world’s first supercritical carbon dioxide…
This illustration features a cryo-EM “map” of the photosystem II complex. It is a 3D reconstruction, based on two-dimensional cryo-EM images, with different protein subunits…
Researchers have developed a method to stabilize a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance. Credit: University of…
A new system both predicts the efficiency of new photovoltaic solar cell materials and shows how much different input parameters affect output. Credit: MIT News,…
This crystal of iron pyrite, just four hundredths of a millimeter in size, could function as the light absorbing layer of a tiny solar cell…
A two-dimensional coat of a perovskite compound is the basis for an efficient solar cell that might stand up to environmental wear and tear, unlike…
Artistic representation of electrons funneling into high-quality areas of perovskite material. Credit: Alex T. at Ella Maru Studios Researchers from the University of Cambridge have…