Tech innovations and Startups

Rinnovabili • eco-friendly building materials: Georgia Tech tests 3D modular eco-voxels
Constructions
Georgia Tech tests eco-voxels: 3D modular pixels for sustainable building on Earth and in space

A modular, circular, and low-impact building system. Eco-voxels promise to reshape the construction industry, addressing both the housing crisis and the climate emergency

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 • Photovoltaic perovskite CIGS: ultra-flexible solar tech
Energy
Flexible photovoltaic perovskite/CIGS cells withstand 3,000…

Photovoltaic perovskite CIGS cells reach 24.6% efficiency and survive 3,000 bends, redefining…


Rinnovabili • Cool with salt
Tech innovations and Startups
Cool with salt, from the Berkeley Lab a new ecological refrigerator

A couple of researchers in the USA demonstrated the feasibility of a "ionocaloric" refrigeration process based…

Rinnovabili • aviation biofuels
Tech innovations and Startups
Do aviation biofuels really reduce emissions?

A new study conducted by the Italian ENEA, in collaboration with Italian Air Force has tested…

Rinnovabili • CSP
Tech innovations and Startups
Role of CSP in hybrid systems for reliable renewable energy supply in…

In the perspective of a 100% hybrid renewable energy system, CSP technology can play a key…

Rinnovabili • printed organic photovoltaic
Tech innovations and Startups
Will be born in Greece the 1st line of production of printed…

The European project "Flex2Energy", in which Italy also takes part, will realize in Thessaloniki the first…

Rinnovabili • Thermal insulation
Tech innovations and Startups
Thermal insulation: smart material which changes color under an external electrical stimulus

The chameleon-like building material produced by the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) changes its external…

Rinnovabili • flow battery
Tech innovations and Startups
Salgenx S3000, the salt water flow battery

The new division of the US Infinity Turbine LLC has developed a flow battery that does…

Rinnovabili • hydrogen electric plane
Tech innovations and Startups
Largest hydrogen electric Aircraft takes flight

ZeroAvia’s 19-seat Dornier 228 has made its first test flight in the UK

Rinnovabili • transistors
Tech innovations and Startups
The transistors of the future could be produced from lignin

Lignin, a paper industry waste, could be a resource to build green and sustainable transistors. A…

Rinnovabili • Uzufly
Tech innovations and Startups
Uzufly, the evolution of Google Earth to create digital twins of cities…

Thanks to drones the EPFL spin-off project, Uzufly, has created a program that can reproduce in…

Rinnovabili • battery cells self-discharge
Tech innovations and Startups
Uncovered the culprit of battery cells self-discharge

According to a new Canadian study, the polymer tape that normally holds the electrodes together tends…

Rinnovabili • Residential thermal storage
Tech innovations and Startups
Residential thermal storage for smart buildings, THUMBS UP thinks

The new European project will develop thermal storage technologies at the residential level to be integrated…

Rinnovabili • hydrogen from the air
Tech innovations and Startups
From EPFL the artificial leaf that produces hydrogen from the air

A group of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has developed a…