
Tech innovations and Startups
LONGi sets new HIBC solar cell record with 28.29% efficiency
LONGi has pushed crystalline silicon solar technology to a new milestone, achieving a certified 28.29% conversion efficiency with its HIBC solar cell technology.
Stefania Del Bianco•25 September 2026

Energy
Atomic engineering could extend the life…
A new atomically engineered platinum-nickel catalyst could address one of the biggest…
Stefania Del Bianco•27 August 2026

Energy
How drones became a threat to…
Low-cost drones and missiles are exposing the vulnerability of pipelines, refineries and…
Erminia Voccia•29 July 2026

Tech innovations and Startups
Shape-memory materials for ecological air conditioning
Energy efficient with no refrigerants harmful to the climate. It is the cooling technology with shape…
7 June 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Transforming skyscrapers into gravity batteries
Researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis have developed a new concept for energy…
2 June 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Rechargeable batteries: Science identifies the formula for lasting 100 years
Tesla’s battery research group at Dalhousie University is investigating the potential of lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt rechargeable batteries, devices…
1 June 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Smart textiles and photovoltaics, now you can wash and recycle
The three-year Sun-powered Textiles project has developed a new method to make solar cells adhere to…
26 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Printable solar cells, new polymer improves yield
A team of researchers has created a new polymer complex conductive able to make organic photovoltaics…
26 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Biological solar cells, bacteria power a microprocessor for over 1 year
Cambridge researchers have created a new photosynthetic device capable of powering an Arm Cortex M0+ microprocessor…
20 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Photovoltaics night: the anti-solar cells of UNSW does not fear the dark
New advances for photovoltaics and the technology of "anti solar cells" thanks to the thermal radiation…
18 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Series production of sodium-ion batteries begins in the USA
Natron Energy has partnered with Clarios International to build the world’s largest sodium-ion battery factory. The…
17 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
FoilMet® transforms rigid solar cells into flexible solar modules
From the Fraunhofer ISE a new laser process to connect solar cells without busbars. Improving design…
12 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
The largest floating photovoltaic in Europe? It is in Portugal
The 5 GW of the EDPR plant will come into operation this summer but the company…
10 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
How to turn soot into clean energy
A group of American engineers has improved the efficiency of solar clean energy kitchens thanks to…
9 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Reference-factory.H2 gives a green hydrogen digital twin
The structure, designed by the Fraunhofer IWU, is a production system of hydrogen technologies based on…

