Hydrogen won’t be a viable fuel source without a replacement catalyst for platinum. This MoS2 hybrid looks set to provide some realistic competition.
Criticality of Materials: “The Great Transition” Symposium in Darmstadt, Germany
The symposium “The Great Transition” brought together leading scientists to address the criticality of materials as key to sustainable technologies.
Electrospray-Assisted Fabrication of Moisture-Resistant and Highly Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis describe a novel technique to fabricate perovskite solar cells, which have tremendous potential in the future designs of photovoltaic technology.
Achieving Gt/y CO2 Utilization with Negative CO2 Emissions
Our global community has been tasked to define and implement a Manhattan style strategy for reducing CO2 emissions at the gigatonne scale. The vision to accomplish this heroic goal is a holistic paradigm, which makes use of all the technologies in the CO2 utilization...
To PCE Infinity and Beyond: Recent Perovskite Research
Perovskite-based photovoltaics are currently achieving PCEs of just over 22%. Here are some interesting highlights of recent perovskite research.
Interview: Advances in Carbon Dioxide Utilization
Prof. Elizabeth Biddinger talks about her recent article on copper-based catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction, which brings new insights towards the renewable conversion of carbon dioxide, a well-known greenhouse gas, into green fuels and chemicals.
New Potential Materials for Solar Cells
Alternative compounds consisting of abundant, inexpensive, and eco-friendly elements for solar cells are needed.
Interview: The Next Generation Bioeconomy
Professor Christos Maravelias of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, and Dr. Jeffrey Herron, now of The Dow Chemical Company talk about their recent article on a systems level approach to biomass upgrading strategies for the next-generation biorefinery.
High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells Adapted for Mass Production
Novel highly efficient polymer solar cells show great promise for large-scale production.
Nitrogen Defects in 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Water Splitting
A very simple and general method for introducing nitrogen defects into the 2D structure of graphitic carbon nitride.