Strange Goop Resolves Sticky Perovskite Solar Cell Problems
The Canadian startup XlynX aims to improve perovskite solar cells with a new advanced adhesive.
materials science
Super White Paint Helps Keep Buildings Cool
Researchers at UCLA have created a super white paint that can reflect up to 98% of incoming heat from the sun.
Materials Science Facing Replicability Crisis Now As Well — What Are The Implications For Battery…
It’s been an open secret for quite some time now that much of what goes on in certain parts of the “scientific community” is at this point essentially fraud. It has been labelled the so-called “replicability crisis” and is facing biomedical and social sciences (amongst others). While the meta-science report throwing psychology under the bus was arguably riddled with its own scientific errors (ironically), well known problems that cross disciplines have been summarized well here.
MIT Turns Solar Steam Into Cheaper Energy, Clean Water
MIT scientists and engineers have a new twist on phase-changing renewable technology. It combines the most efficient generation of solar steam to date by our favorite energy machine, the sun, and a new graphite-based collection system. This method puts out the lowest optical concentration reported thus far: steam generation at an … [continued]
Even After a Thousand Folds, Exotic Material Maintains Conductivity
An international team of scientists with roots at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford has shown that ultra-thin sheets of an exotic material remain transparent and highly conductive even after being deeply flexed 1,000 times and folded and creased like a piece of paper. The result could open this class … [continued]
Stanford Engineers Weld Nanowires with Light
By Andrew Myers One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost and easy processing, engineers foresee a day when such meshes are common in new generations of touch-screens, video displays, light-emitting diodes, … [continued]
