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Improvement of Hybrid Halide Perovskites

18.03.2023

Today, inventing enhanced or new sources of energy has become one of the most important tasks of modern engineering science. In this endeavour, particular focus is being placed on developing more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells as they are cheaper and easier to produce than current commercial silicon-based solar...

Integrated Water-Gas-Shift (WGS) / Pre-Combustion Carbon Capture Process

07.03.2023

The water gas shift reaction (WGSR) is an exothermic reaction taking place between carbon monoxide and steam to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen. In typical industrial applications, the WGSR is conducted as a two-stage process: the high temperature stage performed over an iron-based catalyst in the temperature range 320 –...

New Method of Graphene Production through Flash Joule Heating

23.02.2023

Graphene is a nanomaterial consisting of carbon atoms which are made up of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. The name is derived from graphite and the suffix -ene and describes the nature of the graphite allotrope of carbon which contains numerous double bonds. In a graphene sheet, each...

New Energy Harvesting Method for Small Systems

13.02.2023

There are several methods to generate power, even if there are no external power sources available. This is particularly useful if you want to make energy systems work independently and not susceptible to power shortages or blackouts. One such method is to use small vibrations, temperature differences in electronic systems and...

New anode material for sodium-ion batteries

24.01.2023

In search of an alternative technology for battery design sodium-ion batteries have emerged as potential candidates as a replacement for traditional lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion comprise lithium, cobalt, copper and nickel, materials which are scarce, have high environmental impact and high cost. Sodium on the other hand...

Hydrogen Paste to Power Vehicles

15.01.2023

Hydrogen is an abundant material constituting about 75 per cent of the mass of the universe. It is also an element that will certainly one day be used on a larger scale for vehicle propulsion. In order to achieve this goal, improving storage methods is of key importance as efficiently storing this material is a challenging...

Energy-efficiency through new ultrathin ferroelectrics

06.01.2023

 One of the greatest challenges nowadays is to develop energy-efficient electronics which can accommodate the requirements of modern electronic devices. As these devices have become ever smaller over the years the materials powering them have to become equally thinner without losing any of their efficiency. Ferroelectrics...

New Method to better understand battery corrosion

18.12.2022

Unravelling the atomic structure of different materials is usually a difficult process which leaves a lot of questions unanswered when it comes to analysing the X-ray data. However, this process has recently become much easier as a new approach combines high-powered X-ray beams with advanced computing methodologies. ...

Modified Duckweed for Oil Production

12.12.2022

Lemna minor, also called the common duckweed or lesser duckweed, is an aquatic freshwater plant. It is used as animal fodder, bioremediator, for wastewater nutrient recovery, and also biofuel production. Unlike first generation biofuels, duckweed does not require the use of farmland as duckweed is a fairly small aquatic plant...

Copper to Revolutionise Solar PV Modules

03.12.2022

Among the manifold ways to generate electricity from renewable sources, solar PV modules are believed to be one of the most efficient. Especially heterojunction solar cells have a low carbon footprint because of the sparing use of silicon in them and high efficiency levels in industrial production. During the production of...