Tech innovations and Startups

Rinnovabili • Fully organic solar cells: record efficiency boost with new electrode
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…

Rinnovabili • eco-friendly building materials: Georgia Tech tests 3D modular eco-voxels
Constructions
Georgia Tech tests eco-voxels: 3D modular…

A modular, circular, and low-impact building system. Eco-voxels promise to reshape the…

Rinnovabili • CO2 marine sequestration: Limenet issues first certified carbon credits
Water
From Sicily, a breakthrough in CO2…

Limenet issues its first certified carbon credits with blockchain traceability. The Italian…


Rinnovabili • direct air capture
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…

Rinnovabili • Building wind turbines
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.…

Rinnovabili • vertical solar panels
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…

Rinnovabili • Alternative proteins
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…

Rinnovabili • toxic chemicals
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

Rinnovabili • photovoltaic
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…

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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…

Rinnovabili • Electric cars
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…

Rinnovabili • overproduction of lithium batteries
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…

Rinnovabili • Producing electricity from CO2
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…

Rinnovabili • organic photovoltaic film
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…

Rinnovabili • multiphysics simulation
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…