High-throughput computational materials screening is turning out to be an efficient highway to optoelectronic semiconductor design.
Tierui Zhang: Scientific research is a process of exploring the unknown
Celebrating “10 years of Advanced Energy Materials Research,” Tierui Zhang opens up about his scientific career and his rather unique hobby of chemistry stamp collecting.
Pioneers in Science: Hermann Staudinger
A century on from his groundbreaking paper on polymerization, Advanced Science News takes a look at the life and work of Nobel Laureate, Hermann Staudinger.
UN: Falling clean energy costs can provide opportunity to boost climate action during COVID-19 recovery
If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.
The Fukushima Effect at Home: New roles for local actors in Japan’s energy policy
Post Fukushima, Japan’s energy network has expanded dramatically to include thousands of small renewable power companies which create many small solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal plants.
Thoughts on materials discovery at the human-machine interface
Imagine how these two planes – the world of machines and the world of human systems – will work synergistically to realize the potential of new materials and the systems into which they will be integrated.
Low-carbon solar energy for water desalination
Desalinating water to meet the world’s growing water demands may be feasible using solar energy.
Tackling the cooling challenge with a chiller efficiency policy in India
Demand for chillers to cool spaces like airports and shopping malls is expected to grow dramatically over the next three decades.
The world faces an air pollution pandemic
Researchers say people’s lives are shortened by an average of nearly three years from different sources of air pollution
Absolute zero: A counter-intuitive energy transition
For the UK to make headway with its ambitious Absolute Zero plan, it calls for an administration that understands the subject and what is needed for its success.