According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world’s population lives in areas where water is scarce. Therefore, technologies to produce clean water from undrinkable sources, such as seawater, river or…
Category: Solar
Enhancing the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) with ‘Graphene Armor’
A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology ) has come up with a novel electrode that could greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells…
Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for vehicles that need reliable acceleration and range. But…
Layered solar cell technology boosts efficiency and affordability using a unique triple-halide alloy
The future’s getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date, by layering cells and using a…
Researchers create highly efficient and stable tandem solar cell
Researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting technology of perovskites with the commercial…