The ATES iQ project aims to demonstrate whether the carbonate rocks 500 meters below Berlin are suitable for heating buildings. In 2017 a huge storage facility in the pores of a sandstone layer at a depth of between 1015 and 1045 meters below Berlin’s Grunewald forest that had been used to temporarily store natural gas, to cover the city’s fluctuating needs, was shut down. In 2017 a huge storage facility in the pores of a sandstone layer at a depth…
A research group composed of Professor Takayuki Shibata and his colleagues at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology has applied a microfluidic chip technology to develop a multiplex genetic diagnostic device for the early detection and prevention of crop diseases. The group conducted a gene amplification experiment using four kinds of cucumber viruses on the palm-size diagnostic device, and successfully demonstrated that the rapid multiplex diagnosis can be performed within 1 hour of testing. This diagnostic device…
Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells – but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram, perovskite and organic hybrid cells could provide up to ten times that amount. A research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has now tested this type of cell in space for the first time. Perovskite and organic solar cells are promising options for future generations…
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future…
CIGS thin-film solar cells are used to convert sunlight into electrical energy and are made by coating multiple thin films on a glass substrate.
In the HyBaG project, which started in 2017, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in collaboration with Kaco New Energy and STS -…
Electric powertrains, hydrogen-powered fuel cells and the use of synthetic fuels in combustion engines: Various technologies and fuels are currently being…
Cell phone batteries often heat up and, at times, can burst into flames. In most cases, the culprit behind such incidents can be traced back to lithium…
The global economy’s demand for lithium-ion batteries will be rising sharply in future. Electric cars depend on them, as do laptops, smartphones and power…
Solar cells made of perovskite are at the center of much recent solar research. The material is cheap, easy to produce and almost as efficient as silicon, the…
A new study reports the highest efficiency ever recorded for full roll-to-roll printed perovskite solar cells (PSCs), marking a key step on the way to cheaper…
Suitable catalysts are of great importance for efficient power-to-X applications – but the molecular processes occurring during their use have not yet been…
Methane (CH4) is one of the main causes of global warming, but the contribution of the individual methane sources is still not exactly known. Such…
Energy-efficient power electronics for energy conversion and transmission are becoming increasingly important, as future-oriented and sustainable energy…
Solar cells convert sunlight into electricity. During this process, the electrons of the material inside the cell absorb the energy of the light….
“We took our inspiration from nature's perfectly ingenious system and used the leaf veins of deciduous leaves to construct electrodes with a high power density…
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