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
A biobattery to store hydrogen safely
A group of scientists creates the first biological-based system for the accumulation and release of H2.…
30 May 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
World’s most efficient solar photovoltaic cell created, close to 40%
Researchers of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States have created a triple junction…
24 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
Italy experiments artificial intelligence to improve building efficiency
A team of Italian researchers used Artificial Intelligence to simulate some energy strategies achieving a 13%…
16 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
Solar hydrogen, a new thermochemical pathway for H2
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are studying the potential of perovskites in a new…
11 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…