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3D solar cells boost efficiency while reducing size, weight and complexity
04-11-2007 · EurekAlert!Unique three-dimensional solar cells that capture nearly all of the light that strikes them could boost the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems while reducing their size, weight and mechanical complexity.
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- 3-D solar cells boost efficiency while reducing size, weight and complexity
04-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Unique three-dimensional solar cells that capture nearly all of the light that strikes them could boost the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems while reducing their size, weight and mechanical complexity.
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- Solar cells can take the heat
01-09-2008 · EurekAlert!
Michael Grдtzel and his a team of researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have fabricated a solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cell based on a binary ionic liquid electrolyte. These devices show a light-conversion efficiency of 7.6 percent under simulated sunlight conditions, which sets a new record for a solvent-free device.
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- A boost for hydrogen fuel cell research
01-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have identified a new variation of a familiar platinum-nickel alloy that is far and away the most active oxygen-reducing catalyst ever reported.
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- Silicon nanoparticles enhance performance of solar cells
08-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Placing a film of silicon nanoparticles onto a silicon solar cell can boost power, reduce heat and prolong the cell's life, researchers now report.
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- Higher efficiency organic solar cell created by UCSB Nobel Laureate and research team
07-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at UC Santa Barbara. Nobel laureate and Alan Heeger, professor at UC Santa Barbara, worked with Kwanghee Lee of Korea and a team of scientists to create a new "tandem" organic solar cell with increased efficiency. The discovery, explained in the July 13 Science, marks a step forward in materials science.
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- Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record at Wake Forest Nanotechnology Center
04-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have doubled the efficiency of organic or flexible, plastic solar cells in just two years. The new record set at Wake Forest is more than 6 percent efficiency.
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- Double-decker solar cell
07-21-2007 · Science News Online
A two-layer, polymer-based solar cell has good efficiency and could be cheap to mass-produce.
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- A Boost For Solar Cells With Photon Fusion
10-13-2006 · ScienceDaily
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have developed a process with which longwave light from a normal light source can be converted to shortwave light.
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- Researchers develop darkest manmade material
01-22-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man. The material, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light and one day could be used to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of solar energy conversion, infrared sensors and other devices. The researchers who developed the material have applied for a Guinness World Record for their efforts.
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- Human embryonic stem cell -- derived bone tissue closes massive skull injury
12-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
There are mice in Baltimore whose skulls were made whole again by bone tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells. Healing critical-size defects, which would not otherwise heal on their own, in intramembraneous bone, the flat bone type that forms the skull, is a vivid demonstration of new techniques devised by researchers using hESCs for tissue regeneration.
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