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HyperSolar’s Electrolysis Process Can Produce Renewable Hydrogen from Any Source of Water

HyperSolar has reported that the company’s latest advancements will enable its nanotechnology process to produce renewable and zero-carbon hydrogen fuel from almost any type of water source.

16 May 2012

Researchers Improve Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Graphene

A team of material scientists at the Michigan Technological University has discovered that graphene can improve the conversion efficiency of next-generation photovoltaic cells.

26 Apr 2012

Researchers Create Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

A team of researchers from the Tsinghua University and Rice University has demonstrated that a combination of carbon nanotube forests and a sulfide-based electrolyte can be used to fabricate high-efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) at a cost lower than that of conventional silicon-based solar cells.

19 Apr 2012

Researchers Enhance Battery Performance Using Porous Carbon Nanoparticles

A team of researchers, led by Linda Nazar from the Waterloo University in Canada and Thomas Bein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) Munich, has synthesized porous carbon nanoparticles that use sulfur molecules to optimize the efficiency of lithium-sulfur batteries, a major breakthrough in the advancement of this next-generation of batteries.

12 Apr 2012

New Collaboration to Develop High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Solar Modules

Eighteen major research and industrial partners have teamed up in a European Union (EU) Fast Track project to develop high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules using nanotechnology.

3 Apr 2012

Iron-Platinum-Gold Nanoparticle Catalyst Helps Improve Performance of Fuel Cells

A research team from the Brown University has developed a triple-headed metallic nanoparticle catalyst for fuel-cell reactions involving formic acid.

14 Mar 2012

HyperSolar Reveals Plans to Develop Zero-Carbon Process for Producing Natural Gas and Hydrogen

HyperSolar has disclosed certain details of its proposal for the development of first-of-its-kind nanotechnology-based, zero-carbon process for manufacturing renewable natural gas and hydrogen.

14 Mar 2012

Nanowire Structure Optimizes Hydrogen Production by Capturing More Solar Energy

A research team at the University of California, San Diego is creating a forest of nanowire trees to cleanly harvest more amount of solar energy for generating hydrogen fuel efficiently without utilizing fossil fuels.

9 Mar 2012

Cleanfield Develops New Technology to Accelerate Solar Panel Accessibility

Cleanfield Alternative Energy has updated its collaborative venture of Nanowire Solar Cell on “Next Generation Solar Cell".

24 Feb 2012

Nanosolar Closes Fund to Fuel Development of Thin-Film Solar Systems

Nanosolar, a manufacturer of advanced thin-film solar cells and panels, has declared the closing of a $20-million funding round that involved new investor aeris CAPITAL and existing investors OnPoint Technologies and Mohr Davidow Ventures.

20 Feb 2012