Porsche AG, which has just enhanced its electric credentials by heading a $400 million Series C investment round from the US business Group14 for innovative silicon-lithium technology. Silicon has longContinue Reading
Sila Nanotechnologies is one of those battery firms that most people have never heard of, but it is collaborating with Mercedes and BMW on batteries that use silicon instead ofContinue Reading
Old solar panels contain silicon, which can be recovered and processed to make new solar cells, according to a news release from Fraunhofer ISE, one of Germany’s finest scientific organizations.Continue Reading
A new technique developed by a group of Indian and British researchers promises to overcome the problem of ‘circuits breakage’ in flexible electronic devices due to usage, over a periodContinue Reading
Scientists first isolated graphene — a transparent layer of carbon just one atom thick — in 2004. Almost immediately, we began hearing about all the wondrous ways the material could transform ourContinue Reading
A team of scientists at India Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, has developed a set of new electrodes that promise to help produce lithium ion batteries with higher energy densities.Continue Reading
UK perovskite solar firm Oxford PV said on Monday it has reached a conversion efficiency of 27.3% for a perovskite-silicon solar cell, setting a new world record. The result wasContinue Reading
In a development that could boost optical or light-based computing, a group of Indian scientists has developed a photodetector device by integrating sheets of nanomaterials with silicon. The device couldContinue Reading
