The singlet fission experiment captured energy with high efficiency. (Kyushu University) Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets ...

Researchers have found a way to dramatically reducing energy loss and boosting efficiency perovskite solar cells by incorporating rubidium using lattice strain -- a slight deformation in the atomic ...

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies, which convert light into electricity, are increasingly applied worldwide to generate renewable energy. Researchers have now developed a molecular treatment that ...

A thermoelectric generator with a shape that no human designer would likely have imagined has now been created by a ...

A team of researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), led by physicist Steve Albrecht, says it has pushed solar cell efficiency to 34.5% in the lab by stacking two ultra-thin perovskite layers on ...

Most of the ethylene and ethanol that feed the global plastics industry start as fossil fuels. A team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) wants to start with smokestack ...

(Nanowerk News) Leaders in research, entrepreneurs, and key policymakers from industry, academia, and government will convene at the 2013 Summit on Energy Efficiency, May 1 – 2. Hosted by UC Santa ...

Bertolotti, Fabio, Kyle R. Myers, and Wei Yang Tham. "Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-063, June 2025.