(Phys.org) —Solar thermal panels developed at EPFL are are dressed up in unique and patented new materials. Researchers created a stronger black coating that retains its original color and thereby its ...

Soiling—the accumulation of dust and sand—on solar power reflectors and photovoltaic cells is one of the main efficiency drags for solar power plants, capable of reducing reflectivity up to 50 percent ...

Dr. Shuaifeng Hu, a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford, holds a mounted piece of his team's photovoltaic coating. Credit: Martin Small/University of Oxford Researchers in England have created an ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and 3M are teaming up to study whether adhesives can be developed to join HVACR components. Using ...

A new antireflective coating developed by researchers at Rensselaer could help to overcome two major hurdles blocking the progress and wider use of solar power. The nanoengineered coating, pictured ...

Solar panels can’t operate efficiently if they’re caked in dirt, but cleaning them regularly can be a time-consuming process. Engineers in Germany have now developed an ultra-thin coating that can ...

EWING, N.J. — SOLEC-Solar Energy Corp. has announced the launch of its new website, www.solec.org. The company said the new site features an improved installer locator, user-friendly input forms, and ...

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated ...

Perovskite is quickly gaining on silicon in the solar cell field, but it has one major drawback – durability. Now, a new treatment has been shown to keep perovskite solar cells working at 99% of their ...

Researchers led by a team at Spain’s Technical University of Madrid (ISOM-UPM) have demonstrated a broadband antireflective coating (ARC) for gallium arsenide-based solar cells. The nanostructured ...

We've been using solar-powered calculators since the 1970s. Why can't the same general idea drive gadgets like tablet computers? Ubiquitous Energy says it can. The Cambridge, Mass. company is ...