Tech innovations and Startups

Energy
Fully organic solar cells: efficiency doubles
Thanks to a transparent polymer electrode and a new lamination method, fully organic solar cells have achieved a record power conversion efficiency of 8.7%—more than double the…
Editorial Team•29 April 2025

Constructions
Georgia Tech tests eco-voxels: 3D modular…
A modular, circular, and low-impact building system. Eco-voxels promise to reshape the…
Editorial Team•28 April 2025

Water
From Sicily, a breakthrough in CO2…
Limenet issues its first certified carbon credits with blockchain traceability. The Italian…
Editorial Team•24 April 2025

Tech innovations and Startups
Inaugurated Mammoth, the world’s largest direct air capture system for CO2 system
The Swiss company Climeworks has put into operation a plant capable of capturing 36,000 tons of…
10 May 2024

Tech innovations and Startups
Building wind turbines with robots, the NREL experience
Researchers at the US lab used robotic assistance to automate the post-stamping operations of the blades.…
9 May 2024

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
Alternative proteins from a fungus, the new food revolution?
The proteins obtained from the fermentation of a fungus found in the Yellowstone National Park have…
6 May 2024

Tech innovations and Startups
AI could reduce animal testing of toxic chemicals
Identifying toxic chemicals with artificial intelligence techniques can close the era of laboratory testing
2 May 2024

Tech innovations and Startups
Germany’s new solar package cuts photovoltaic laces
The German parliament approved the "Solarpaket 1", a new package of rules to accelerate "the whole…
1 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
Electric cars, 2024 is breaking all records
Only with the current policies and the investments already made, at the end of the decade…
26 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…