Efficiency

Solar Battery (Storage)

New Inorganic Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Subcells That Are Both Efficient and Stable

All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions formed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving higher effici…

Energy Storage Technology

Engineers Try to Squeeze Energy From Discarded Fruit Using Microbial Fuel Cells

When Doc Brown fed his DeLorean food scraps in Back to the Future as fuel, it seemed like crazy science fiction.Now science is taking over that fiction as UBC O…

Energy Saving Products

Toyota Uses Kaneka’s 26.63%-Efficient Solar Cells for Electric Vehicle

Kaneka said the cells will be utilized in the roof glass of Toyota’s Prius PHEV electric car. It plans to begin full-scale delivery of in-vehicle PV produ…

Solar Technology

Perovskite Solar Cell Achieves 24.3% Efficiency, High Stability via Binary Mixed Hole Transport Layer

Researchers in China have built a hole transport layer with a mixed binary configuration integrating the polymer Regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and …

Energy Saving

Lithium Recovery Can Supplement Power Generation and Heat Supply

Geothermal technology not only enables sustainable supply of electricity and heat, but also regional lithium extraction. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of…

Energy Storage Technology

Air-Breathing Cathode Enhances Conversion Efficiency, Durability of Alkaline Nickel-Zinc Batteries

Nickel-zinc (Ni-Zn) batteries are a promising technology due to their high output voltage, high theoretical specific energy, high safety and low cost. However, …

Solar Technology

Tin Oxide-Based Organic Solar Cell Hits 17.26% Efficiency, 79% Fill Factor

Dutch scientists have used atomic layer deposition to build an organic solar cell with a tin oxide electron transport layer. This improved electron mobility and…

Energy Storage Project

New Materials Will Yield Stronger, Faster-Charging Batteries

Researchers at MIT say they have created a new material that will pave the way to faster charging batteries.Increasing demand for improved electrochemical energ…

Solar Cell

Golden Solar Rolls Out High-Efficiency HJT Cell at GW-Level Production Base

Golden Solar is pleased to announce the successful completion of its 4.8 GW Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer (HJT) solar cell and module production line…

Solid-State Batteries

New Zinc Metal Batteries Can Be Cheap, Efficient, Durable, Safe and Environmentally Friendly

The world needs cheap and powerful batteries that can store sustainably produced electricity from wind or sunlight so that we can use it whenever we need it, ev…

Solar Cell

Outstanding Performance of Organic Solar Cell Using Tin Oxide

Organic solar cells have a photoactive layer that is made from polymers and small molecules. The cells are very thin, can be flexible, and are easy to make. How…

Solar Cell

Aiko Solar to Invest 36 Billion for 60GW Cell Module Production

Aiko Solar announced on April 21 to sign a strategic cooperation agreement for 30 GW of high efficiency solar cell and 30 GW of supporting module project with t…

Energy Storage Project

New Efficient One-Pot Process for Recycling Metals From Spent Li-Ion Batteries

A team from the Korean government-funded research institute The Institute for Basic Science has developed a one-pot liquid extraction process that uses rotating…

Electric Vehicles

European Heft Project Seeks Lower-Cost, More Efficient and Power-Dense PM Emotor for EVs

A new €4-million research project funded by the EU is seeking to develop a lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense permanent magnet eMotor for electric …

Battery

Recycling of Garnet Solid Electrolytes With Lithium-Dendrite Penetration by Thermal Healing

Metallic lithium is considered as the ultimate anode material of next-generation high-performance energy storage system, owing to its ultrahigh theoretical spec…