Tech innovations and Startups

Water
From Sicily, a breakthrough in CO2 marine sequestration
Limenet issues its first certified carbon credits with blockchain traceability. The Italian startup operates a pilot plant in Augusta (Sicily) – the world’s largest – active since…
Editorial Team•24 April 2025

Energy
Flexible photovoltaic perovskite/CIGS cells withstand 3,000…
Photovoltaic perovskite CIGS cells reach 24.6% efficiency and survive 3,000 bends, redefining…
Editorial Team•23 April 2025

Energy
CATL launches Naxtra: the first mass-produced…
During its Super Tech Day, the Chinese giant unveiled three breakthrough batteries…
Editorial Team•22 April 2025

Tech innovations and Startups
New sodium batteries from poisonous herbs and weeds
A group of researchers has created a high quality anodic material, exploiting the Heracleum sosnowskyi, toxic…
17 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Sustainable concrete thanks to lead melting waste: the results of the Australian…
From Flinders University comes the study on sustainable concrete, low-emission and durable, produced with natural fibers…
15 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Flexible solar cells in CIGS, efficiency exceeds 22%
Empa scientists make the encore and a year later exceed their own record of efficiency for…
14 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
The offshore wind giant of Siemens Gamesa marks a new world record
The prototype SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbine produced 359 MWh over a 24-hour period, a…
14 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Is hydrogen diesel engine the future?
A group of engineers in Australia has converted a diesel engine into a dual-fuel system capable…
12 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
From NTU the portable micro wind that captures light breezes
The device created by scientists at Nanyang Technological University is able to produce small amounts of…
11 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
China turns on largest “advanced” compressed air battery
The plant, built in northern China, does not require the use of caverns or fossil gas…
7 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Copper-based transparent solar cell, Toshiba continues to make progress
Japanese company announces new steps towards the development of efficient, low-cost and highly reliable tandem photovoltaic…
6 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Lignin Sustainable Aviation Fuel for 100% SAF
Thanks to a new US research, plant waste can become the source of the aromatic components…
4 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Silicon Perovskite solar cell, more than 30% efficiency (once again)
TNO, TU Eindhoven, imec and TU Delft joined forces to build a 4-terminal silicon and perovskite…
3 October 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Floating artificial leaves cross rivers producing solar fuels
Researchers at Cambridge University have designed ultra-thin and flexible devices that generate clean fuels from sunlight…
30 September 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
New cobalt-free cathode developed for lithium-ion batteries
Overcome the thermal and chemical-mechanical instabilities of nickel-based cathodes. The merit is of a group of…