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A new study shows how encasing algae protein in liquid droplets can dramatically enhance the algae's light-harvesting and energy-conversion properties by up to three times.
Oct 19th, 2021
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The production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analysing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast to avoid global warming of 1.5 C or even 2 C.
Oct 15th, 2021
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The aim of a new research project is to manufacture recyclable and environmentally-friendly electrodes and subsequently regain materials from batteries via direct recycling.
Oct 15th, 2021
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Scientists and engineers have created a hydrogel tablet that can rapidly purify contaminated water. One tablet can disinfect a liter of river water and make it suitable for drinking in an hour or less.
Oct 6th, 2021
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In what should be a win-win-win for the environment, a process to extract valuable metals from electronic waste would also use up to 500 times less energy than current lab methods and produce a byproduct clean enough for agricultural land.
Oct 5th, 2021
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Manufacture, wear, wash, incinerate: This typical life cycle of garments, which pollutes the environment, is to be changed in the future - towards principles of circular economy with recycling at its core. Using an outdoor jacket made from PET bottles and recycled materials, researchers have investigated whether the product actually delivers what the idea promises.
Sep 30th, 2021
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Researchers have identified a key mechanism responsible for the lower efficiencies of organic solar cells and have demonstrated a way this hurdle might be overcome. Their results suggest the possibility of developing organic solar cells with efficiencies comparable to silicon-based cells.
Sep 30th, 2021
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StoRIES, a new European research consortium, has now been established to accelerate the development of energy storage systems.
Sep 29th, 2021
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Efficient water and urea electrolysis with bimetallic yolk-shell nanoparticles.
Sep 14th, 2021
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The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists have shown which microbial community is responsible for degradation, what role the climate plays in this process, and why biodegradable plastics could still be problematic.
Sep 14th, 2021
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According to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report, focusing on raw material extraction and processing, raw material consumers can use their purchasing power to influence suppliers to become more climate friendly.
Sep 1st, 2021
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Scientists succeeded in fundamentally investigating the surface of the iridium oxide catalyst under dynamic operation conditions.
Aug 24th, 2021
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Researchers have developed prototype technology that can double the power harvested from ocean waves, in an advance that could finally make wave energy a viable renewable alternative.
Aug 17th, 2021
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Researchers have developed a singlet oxygen model to calculate how particular chemicals break down in surface water.
Aug 12th, 2021
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A new web tool will enable anyone to quickly analyze a region's potential for renewable energy development.
Aug 11th, 2021
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Researchers have published a comparative study of battery cost predictions from the past decade. In the study, assumptions from more than 50 scientific publications that analyze the costs of lithium-ion, solid-state, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries, resulting costs are compared and the academic opinion is consolidated into a cost trend.
Aug 11th, 2021
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Electricity, transport, and heating account for a massive 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and are at the forefront of the battle to achieve Net Zero. But reaching Net Zero means also dealing with the hard-to-reach 20% of emissions: agriculture, plastics, cement, and waste, and extracting at least 5% extra from the atmosphere to account for the emissions that we simply cannot get rid of.
Aug 5th, 2021
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Better methods for assessing solar cells under indoor ambient lighting can help improve their design.
Aug 4th, 2021
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