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Key to India’s Energy Independence Lies in Transformative Solar Technologies

The transformative technologies reshaping the energy landscape were explored during the session titled “Exploring Next-Generation Technologies Driving the Clean...

August 1, 2024

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Researchers Develop Mechanism for Self-Healing of Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers from Monash University, the University of Oxford, and the City University of Hong Kong have developed a “self-healing” mechanism for perovskite...

July 2, 2024

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Arshreet Singh

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Solar, Wind Adoption Led to Measurable Public Health, Economic Benefits: Report

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) researchers have found quantifiable public health and economic benefits of accelerated adoption of solar and wind energy in...

June 6, 2024

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Researchers Produce Hydrogen Using Solar Energy and Agricultural Waste

Engineers from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) have developed a novel method to produce hydrogen from water utilizing only solar power and agricultural waste...

June 5, 2024

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Researchers Find Mixed Perovskites Improve Thermal Stability in Solar Cells

Researchers have combined ortho-carborane with perovskite cells to improve thermal stability and retained 80% of their initial efficiencies. A team of researchers from...

May 24, 2024

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Researchers Find Low-Toxic Materials for Roll-to-Roll Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers from Swansea University have found that introducing compatible hole-transport materials (HTLs) between perovskite and carbon can significantly enhance the...

May 23, 2024

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Researchers Strategize Reduction of Water Use in Solar Cell Manufacturing

In a recent paper published in Solar Energy, researchers said they collected data from a solar cell factory to develop and evaluate water recycling strategies in the...

May 10, 2024

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NREL’s Roadmap to Make Tandem Solar Cells Commercially Viable

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have proposed enhancing cell and module efficiency to record levels, scale...

May 2, 2024

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Researchers Develop Fast-Charging Sodium Battery

Researchers have developed a high-energy, high-power hybrid sodium-ion battery that could be a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Led by Jeung Ku Kang, a team...

April 29, 2024

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Rapid Innovation Threatens Solar Module Reliability, Researchers Warn

The accelerating technological advancement of solar modules risks exacerbating the challenges of durability and cell degradation, according to a new review from the...

April 3, 2024

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Australian Scientists Report Record 15.5% Efficiency for Printed Solar Cells

A team of scientists from CSIRO, the Australian National Science Agency, have reported a new record efficiency in roll-to-roll fully printed solar cells. In a paper...

April 2, 2024

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Researchers Achieve Record Efficiency of 12.7% for Quantum Dot Solar Cell

Researchers from Seoul’s Hanyang University and China’s Nankai University have developed an electron transport layer (ETL)–based cesium lead iodide perovskite...

March 27, 2024

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Researchers Use Radiative Cooling Strategy to Harvest Solar Energy

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) have developed a dual cooling and power generation strategy that simultaneously harvests solar energy in a solar cell...

March 18, 2024

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Scientists Claim Record Efficiency from Triple-Junction Tandem Solar Cell

Scientists from the National University of Singapore have announced a record 27.1% energy conversion efficiency from a novel triple-junction solar cell they developed....

March 11, 2024

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Arshreet Singh

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Nanoscale Engineering May Boost Perovskite Solar Cell Durability

Perovskite solar panels could become more efficient and sturdier over longer periods by engineering the nanoscale structure of perovskite devices, claims a new study by...

March 7, 2024

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Arshreet Singh

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