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Tiny Tubes: Hydrogen Storage Inside Single-Walled Nanotubes
Researchers develop high-pressure hydrogen storage using nanocontainers made of single-walled carbon nanotubes with ice valves sealing the ends.
Graphene heterostructures demonstrate exciting electronic properties
Combining graphene with other one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed.
Nanowires on their way to highly efficient photovoltaic devices?
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How does microstructuring impact on solar cell efficiency?
New research has investigated how the internal structure of organic solar cells impacts their performance.
Flexible electrodes for flexible electronics
Chinese researchers develop a new process to make flexible electrodes for lithium ion batteries quickly and easily.
Photovoltaics researcher elected to Royal Society
Martin Green from UNSW, a pioneer in solar photovoltaic science and engineering, has been elected into the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Nanodevices can be both battery and memory
Resistive memory cells open up new possibilities in nanoelectronics.
Material design approach improves solar cell efficiency
Development method allows researchers to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum.
MIT team shatter efficiency limit of solar cells
Researchers show that there is a way to blow past Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit — once seen as an ultimate limit.
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