A team of researchers from the U.K. and Germany present the technology behind an exciting phase of solar cell technology: solar trees.
Energy
Best of Advanced Energy Materials – July
Take a look at the great cover images from the July issues and top five most accessed articles this month.
Sticking electric vehicles
A broad range of adhesive tapes of tesa support for electric cars.
Plasmon-mediated photocatalysis – Pd nanoparticles in a double role
Pd nanosheets function both as broadband light absorbers and as synthetic catalysts for the dehydrogenation of formic acid to hydrogen and oxygen.
Ultralight aerogels conduct electricity
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created soft polymer materials capable of thermoelectric energy generation.
Ionic Liquids in Polymer Design
A special issue in Macromolecular Rapid Communications presents selected highlights in the exciting field of ionic liquid-based polymers.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – July 2016
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
ZSW Sets New World Record for Thin-film Solar Cells
The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) has nudged up the performance bar for thin-film solar cells yet another notch.
Highly efficient ORR electrocatalysts derived from MOFs
A NUS team has reported a highly efficient ORR electrocatalyst derived from an iron-based metal–organic framework (MOF).
Demonstration of polycrystalline thin film coatings on glass for spin Seebeck energy harvesting
A newly discovered phenomena enables the separation of the key physical parameters that limit the efficiency of conventional thermoelectrics.
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