Multidisciplinary ORNL team discovers unexpected effect of heavy hydrogen in organic solar cells.
Energy
Large-scale power storage system made from reused batteries
The company Sumitomo Corporation completed the world’s first large-scale power storage system made from reused electric vehicle batteries in Japan.
The next step towards large-scale artificial photosynthesis
Berkeley Lab researchers identify key intermediate steps in artificial photosynthesis reaction.
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 outperforms multicrystalline silicon
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin-film solar cells have now reached a high efficiency level with a new record efficiency of 20.8 %.
Cutting-edge solar air heating technology
ArcelorMittal has entered a partnership with Conserval Engineering to manufacture a technology that uses solar radiation to heat buildings while reducing a building’s heating costs.
Seeing the wood for the trees: A new technique for the study of biomass pyrolysis
Spatiotemporally resolved diffuse reflectance in situ spectroscopy (STR-DRiSP) reveals the kinetics of biomass pyrolysis.
Useful Uncertainty Causes Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
In a Review Article in the Advanced Materials 25th anniversary series, Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heeger discusses BHJ solar cell operation and how efficiencies can top 20%.
A week in the materials industry: February 11th 2014
A roundup of news from the past week in the materials science industry.
BASF inaugurates battery research centre in Japan
BASF inaugurated its Research and Development Laboratory and Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan on Wednesday the 5th.
Fraunhofer Solar Researchers Awarded the 2014 Zayed Future Energy Prize
Prizewinners are selected based on the degree to which they achieve impact, innovation, long-term vision, and leadership in renewable energy and sustainability.
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