Energy

Researchers at Convergence Research Center for Solar Energy at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea, have achieved the confirmed highest single-junction cell efficiency in the world. Expects to be commercialized by using low cost, ecofriendly materials.

Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a highly flexible, high-energy Textile Lithium Battery.

DGIST agreed on Energy Research Cooperation with CNR-ITAE in Italy. Held a joint symposium on the latest energy research. Agreed to share research performance and conduct joint research in new and renewable energy materials.

Accelerating Energy Transformation at Singapore International Energy Week 2019

Scientists from Tohoku University and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have developed a new complex hydride lithium superionic conductor that could result in all-solid-state batteries with the highest energy density to date.

Stimulate the global phenomenon of rapid development of cities into the future

A novel solar panel tracer is faster, less expensive and more accurate than conventional devices.

The ability of thermoelectric materials to convert heat into electricity has been more than doubled. This could help reduce the amount of wasted heat, and thus wasted fossil fuel, in daily activities and industries.

Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to the growth of one of its bottom layers in a step-like fashion. This finding, published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, can lead to the development of even more efficient LEDs.

DGIST Senior Researcher Changsoon Choi’s team coiled the existing carbon nano tube/spandex fiber and developed a new fiber of supercoiled structure. Expects to be applied in developing various wearable device platforms with super-coil that stretches up to 16 times

Scientists are investigating the potential of non-toxic materials to replace lead in perovskite solar cells.

New material used as an electrode of solid oxide fuel cell.

Combining a polymer and microparticles enables a new type of capacitor that could mimic the way the brain processes information.

Researchers have taken a major step toward the development of a new generation of solar cells, using lead-free perovskites.

Researchers in Korea have introduced a novel catalyst that can significantly enhance the performance of perovskite electrodes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC).

Researchers have developed photocatalyst recipes for producing polymers that make up chemicals such as inks and surfactants. The findings will pave way for designing photocatalysts through computers in future.

Researchers in South Korea have presented an easy, facile, and cost-effective synthetic method, capable of stabilizing perovskites without addition of foreign coating materials in aqueous media.

A new type of organic solar cells with high flexibility can withstand up to 100 continual bending/unbending cycles.

Two students, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have been honored with the 2018 Talent Award of Korea.

A team of researchers has developed a system that produces electricity and hydrogen (H2) while eliminating carbon dioxide (CO2).

The primary component of natural gas, methane, is itself a potent greenhouse gas. A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled a high performance catalyst for methane conversion to formaldehyde.

Researchers in Korea have fabricated nano-sized catalysts that could improve the performance and production of clean energy fuel cells.

A more systematic, data-driven approach could identify materials that can improve our energy use.

Direct electrolysis has mixed results for extracting fuel sources from microalgae.

Helpful microbes inhale CO2 through a porous cylindrical electrode and exude useful chemicals.

Real-time imaging has shown the surprising flexibility of a crystal surface upon guest molecule introduction, with implications for storage and sensing devices.

A compound made from the glycerol by-product of biodiesel production could promote cleaner burning in vehicle engines.

A metal-organic framework that selectively removes impurities from natural gas could allow greater use of this cleaner fossil fuel.