Converting Sunlight To Cheaper Energy
| Converting Sunlight To Cheaper Energy Scientists are working to convert sunlight to cheap electricity. They are working with new materials that can make devices used for converting sunlight to electricity cheaper and more efficient. |
| Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance Current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications. Now researchers have developed a new anode coating strategy that significantly enhances the efficiency of solar energy power conversion. Their work focuses on “engineering” organic material-electrode interfaces in bulk-hetero-junction organic solar cells. The breakthrough promises to bring researchers and developers worldwide closer to the goal of producing cheaper, more manufacturable and more easily implemented solar cells. |
| New ‘Window’ Opens On Solar Energy: Cost Effective Devices Available Soon Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. Engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun’s energy that could allow just that. The work, reported in Science, involves the creation of a novel solar concentrator. |
| Coating Improves Electrical Stimulation Therapy Used For Parkinson’s, Depression, Chronic Pain Researchers have designed a way to improve electrical stimulation of nerves by outfitting electrodes with the latest in chemically engineered fashion: a coating of basic black, formed from carbon nanotubes. |
| Carbon Nanotubes Made Into Conductive, Flexible ‘Stained Glass’ Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties. Now researchers have used metallic nanotubes to make thin films that are semitransparent, highly conductive, flexible and come in a variety of colors, with an appearance similar to stained glass. These results could lead to improved high-tech products such as flat-panel displays and solar cells. |
| New Methods To Protect Wind Generators During Voltage Dips Developed A young researcher has put forward two protection techniques so that wind generators continue to be operative despite breaks in electricity supply. |
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