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Crystalline buffer layer pushes organic solar cells to 20.21 percent efficiencyTokyo (SPX) May 01, 2026 Researchers have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 20.21 percent in pseudo-planar heterojunction organic solar cells by introducing a crystalline polymer buffer layer that shields against so ... more  
KIT spinoff develops photoreactor panel for direct solar hydrogenBerlin (SPX) May 01, 2026 Photreon, a KIT spin-off, has developed a photoreactor panel that generates hydrogen directly from sunlight and water without electrolyzers or electrical power. 'We avoid the detour through el ... more 
Rice engineers suppress perovskite yellow-phase degradation with dual additivesLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 Rice University chemical engineers have developed a method to make perovskite-based photovoltaics more durable by driving the material directly into its desirable black crystal phase while making it ... more 
UK team finds intermediate materials for solar fuels, batteriesLondon (SPX) May 01, 2026 Researchers have identified previously unknown materials, including a new form of a widely studied clean-energy material, by carefully controlling and tracking how molecular precursors break down du ... more |
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Warwick Researchers Find Hidden Intermediate Materials With Uses in Solar Fuels and BatteriesLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 Chemists at the University of Warwick have identified a series of previously unknown materials formed during the heating of molecular precursors, including a new structural form of bismuth vanadate, ... more  
AI Safety Guardrails Built For Chatbots Fail To Protect Humans From RobotsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford argue in a new Science Robotics paper that the safety frameworks developed for AI chatbots ar ... more  
UMD Physicists Find Crystal Symmetry Controls Nuclear Spin States of Molecular HydrogenLos Angeles, CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Chemical physicists at the University of Maryland have demonstrated that the nuclear spin states of molecular hydrogen can be controlled simply by freezing it inside dry-ice crystals - no magnetic f ... more  
AI-Driven Design Tools Unlock New Capabilities in Flat Optical DevicesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Researchers at Korea University have published a comprehensive review documenting how artificial intelligence is overcoming the core design barriers that have limited the practical deployment of met ... more |
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Spire RF sensing data maps Arctic sea ice freeboard across winterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 New research supported by the European Space Agency's Third Party Missions programme has produced Arctic-wide sea ice freeboard maps using GNSS-Reflectometry data collected by Spire Global Inc.'s mu ... more  
China Moves To Convert Underused Airspace Into A New Industrial Growth EngineBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 28, 2026 For decades, China's economic growth has largely unfolded on land - across factory floors, highways and ports. Now the country is turning its gaze upward. What was once empty airspace below co ... more  
Geomagnetic Reversal Trigger Mechanism Study Finds Dipole Field Bi-Stability in Dynamo SimulationsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 28, 2026 A team at Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, has published new magnetohydrodynamic simulation results demonstrating that ... more  
Ultra-Thin Dual-Mode Shielding Film Blocks Electromagnetic Waves and Neutron Radiation SimultaneouslyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 28, 2026s Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a composite shielding material that simultaneously blocks both electromagnetic waves and neutron radiation within a ... more  
Texas A and M Detonation Lab Bridges Explosive Physics From Industrial Safety to Dying StarsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2026 Scientists at Texas A and M University have officially opened the world's largest academic controlled-explosions laboratory, the Detonation Research Test Facility (DRTF), on the Texas A and M-RELLIS ... more |
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Biochar Hydrogel Hybrid Pushes Solar Desalination to New Efficiency LevelsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 28, 2026 A new study published in the journal Biochar demonstrates that combining biochar with advanced polyzwitterionic hydrogels can sharply improve the performance of solar-driven water evaporation system ... more 
Phase Change Foam Sustains Solar Desalination Through Low Light And DarknessTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 28, 2026 Researchers from Ocean University of China and Huzhou University have developed a phase-change photothermal foam that continues to produce freshwater after sunlight fades, addressing one of the core ... more  
Air Pollution in Infancy Linked to Higher Rates of Respiratory InfectionsBoston, United States (SPX) Apr 24, 2026 Ambient air pollution in the first year of life is associated with a greater burden of respiratory infections, according to preliminary findings from the Immune Development in Early Life (IDEaL) Rom ... more  
Waste Glycerol Powers New Electrochemical Route to Green Hydrogen and FormateTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2026 Researchers at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed a next-generation electrochemical system capable of simul ... more  
DOME test bed opens at Idaho lab to host privately built advanced reactorsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2026 The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has declared the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed, known as DOME, open for business, marking a milestone for the ... more |
Safety panel flags seismic risks at Nevada nuclear weapons labLondon, United Kingdom (SPX) Apr 17, 2026 The underground Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation, or PULSE, at the Nevada National Security Site contains numerous mapped faults whose seismic behavior remains poorly ... more  
Iron and UV light drive simple hydrogen production from alcoholTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 17, 2026 Researchers at Kyushu University have reported a simple way to generate hydrogen gas by mixing methanol, sodium hydroxide, and iron ions, then exposing the solution to ultraviolet light. The team sa ... more  
UK to accelerate clean energy drive amid Mideast warLondon (AFP) April 20, 2026 Britain's government on Tuesday unveiled plans to accelerate its clean energy drive after oil and gas prices soared in the wake of the US-Iran war. ... more  
X-raying rocks reveals their carbon-storing capacityCambridge MA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 To avoid the worst effects of climate change, many billions of metric tons of industrially generated carbon dioxide will have to be captured and stored away by the end of this century. One place to ... more |
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Robotic AI System Runs 50000 Perovskite Solar Cell Experiments and Hits 27 Percent EfficiencyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Perovskite solar cells have emerged as one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, but their development still depends heavily on time-consuming trial-and-error synthesis an ... more 
Sunlight process turns plastic waste into acetic acidLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a sunlight-driven process that converts plastic waste, including microplastics, into acetic acid, the main component of vinegar. The approach ... more 
CO2 binding concrete aims to turn construction into carbon sinkBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2026 Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, but its cement content makes it a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are ... more 
Waste water to clean energy: Japanese engineers harness the power of osmosisFukuoka, Japan (AFP) April 3, 2026 A Japanese water plant is harnessing the natural process of osmosis to generate renewable energy that could one day become a common power source. ... more |
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 PercentTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Inverted perovskite solar cells are widely considered the future of next-generation photovoltaics due to their high efficiency, low cost, and ease of manufacturing. A collaborative research team fro ... more 
Sensor-Free Prediction Method Guards Stirling Generators Against Piston Overshoot DamageTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Researchers have developed a fast prediction and suppression method for transient piston displacement overshoot in free piston Stirling generators, addressing a fault condition that can quickly esca ... more 
Electron Microscopy Alone Can Now Fully Characterize Organic Solar CellsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Using three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED), researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnberg have demonstrated that electrons can provide the averaged structural info ... more 
AI Forecasting Method Lifts Solar Output by Optimizing Panel Tilt AnglesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Researchers have developed a feature selection-based solar irradiance forecasting method to improve the operation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems. The approach uses a bidirectional long short-te ... more |
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Improved Energy Management System Boosts Reliability of Off-Grid PV Fuel Cell MicrogridsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Researchers have proposed an improved energy management system for a stand-alone hybrid photovoltaic and proton exchange membrane fuel cell microgrid, aiming to maintain DC-link stability while redu ... more
Ion beam method to speed nuclear core material qualificationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 An ion beam based method for qualifying materials for use in the cores of advanced nuclear reactors is moving into industry standards this year, offering a path that is about a thousand times faster ... more 
Study maps agrivoltaic tradeoffs for Midwest farmsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 In a world facing rising pressure to deliver both reliable food supplies and clean energy, scientists are exploring agrivoltaics as a way to combine solar power with crop production on the same land ... more 
AI driven coatings enable full color solar windows without losing powerLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 A new study has demonstrated that artificial intelligence can design color-tunable solar windows that maintain, and even enhance, their power output compared to conventional transparent solar cells. ... more |
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