The rapid global transition toward sustainable and renewable energy systems is driving an urgent need for advanced materials that combine high efficiency, ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 9 and SDG 12. 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has emerged as a technology for advancing possibilities in devices for energy ...

Plasmonics is the study of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and free electrons in a metal. When light strikes a metal nanostructure, it can excite collective oscillations of the free ...

In a conventional solar cell, the energy of an absorbed photon in excess of the band gap is rapidly lost as heat, and this is one of the main reasons that the theoretical efficiency is limited to ~33% ...

Solar energy product manufacturer Energy Conversion Devices remained in the red in its second quarter, but reported higher revenue and projects sustainable profitability by the fourth quarter. The ...

Harvesting energy sources such as heat, vibration, light, and electromagnetic waves from everyday environments such as industrial sites and automobiles and converting them into electrical energy is ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Construction crews working a few miles offshore from the port of Newport, Ore., are building the final portions of a sprawling $80 million test facility designed to develop a new form of ...

Tsinghua University has launched the first issue of Energy Materials and Devices, a quarterly publication published by Tsinghua University Press. The journal aims to be an international, single-blind, ...