Energy
Electric cars and hot water systems could turn cities into giant batteries
A new study shows how electric vehicles and hot water systems could help turn urban areas into massive storage hubs, easing pressure on the power grid.
Paolo Travisi•13 August 2025
Energy
Indoor solar cells hit 40% efficiency…
Fraunhofer ISE develops a high-efficiency indoor photovoltaic cell using GaInP semiconductors, pushing…
Stefania Del Bianco•8 August 2025
Energy
Organic photovoltaic facade debuts on building…
NEXT Energy Technologies installs the world’s first integrated organic photovoltaic facade in…
Editorial Team•31 July 2025
Tech innovations and Startups
From Korea the vertical solar panels with omnidirectional anti-reflective
Designed a sheet of microprisms to mitigate reflection losses. Coating achieves less than 0.01 surface reflectance…
8 May 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
PEM electrolysis, here is the perfect catalyst that does not use iridium
Comes from the Japanese research center RIKEN a manganese oxide based catalyst that can support the…
29 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
China now dominates overproduction of lithium batteries
A new BNEF analysis shows that global manufacturing capacity for lithium batteries has doubled demand last…
23 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
Producing electricity from CO2 by “copying” nature
New research tries to exploit the energy released by the process of chemical adsorption of CO2…
21 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
From Japan the organic photovoltaic film that you can wash and wring
A group of researchers has created very thin solar cells with organic base, waterproof and highly…
18 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
New solutions for clean energy thanks to multiphysics simulation
COMSOL has released a free ebook, that brings together six concrete cases in which simulation has…
18 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
From CATL the first battery with zero degradation after 5 years
According to the statement of the Chinese manufacturer it is the first storage system in the…
16 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
Here is the tandem organic solar cell with an efficiency close to…
A four-terminal multi-junction unit that moves the performance of polymer photovoltaics forward. The new world record…
15 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
Photovoltaic, here is the quantum material with an efficiency of 190%
A team of scientists at Lehigh University has developed a material with an external quantum efficiency…
11 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
A wind-powered electrodynamic screen for clean solar panels
Created a "wind" TENG to power an electrodynamic screen able to free the photovoltaic modules from…
8 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
A fiberglass plaster for earthquake-proof buildings
A group of researchers from the Swiss EPFL has improved their knowledge of hydrovoltaic nanodevices by…
4 April 2024
Tech innovations and Startups
Solid lithium-ion batteries, an exceptional electrolyte arrives
Developed by the University of Sciences of Tokyo a new solid electrolyte with high ionic conductivity…
3 April 2024
Mobility & Transportation
The essential weekly briefing on the most important news in sustainability, curated for you.
"*" indicates required fields
