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Chemists Add Color to Chemical Reactions (Syracuse University)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
Tennyson Doane, left, and Kevin Cruz '18 hold perovskites of different colors ... A photo timeline of reaction monitoring using perovskite fluorescence ... Central to the group's work is an emerging class of nanomaterials called perovskites. A perovskite is a special class of crystal, typically made up of metal ions and oxygen. The group's perovskites are composed of metal ions and a halide....

Major Advance in New Solar Cell Materials Achieved by BGU Researchers and Colleagues from Singapore and Switzerland (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
A tri-national team (Singapore-Israel-Switzerland) that includes two BGU professors has reported a major advance in the physics of perovskite solar cells - a new class of inorganic-organic hybrid materials that is spawning a revolution in photovoltaic technology. 'Perovskite' refers to a specific type of crystal structure, originally identified by the 19th century Russian mineralogist L.A....

Shareholders Q&A; - April (Dyesol Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 09 May 2016
(Source. Dyesol Limited). Is it possible and realistic to realize this year the 'Major Demonstration Area'? ... What is the current status in Turkey?. Turkey is proceeding inexorably ... However, the benefits of SPECIFIC and Solliance combined give Dyesol access to the world's best processing expertise that it requires to develop and commercialise Perovskite Solar Cell PV on metals using roll-to-roll manufacturing technology ... (noodl. 33451952) ....

Chemist Jamie Neilson receives DOE early career award (Colorado State University)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
(Source. Colorado State University) ... His DOE project, 'Informed Materials Design Principles from Local Structures and Dynamics in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Halides,' was selected by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. According to Neilson's project proposal, hybrid inorganic-organic perovskite halides have the potential to revolutionize functional semiconducting materials for energy-conversion technologies ... (noodl. 33399942) ....

Solar Cell "Wonder Material"--Perovskite--Falls Short of Expectations

Edit Scientific American 04 May 2016
New materials may never become efficient for real power, new report says. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... ....

Discovery of a new crystal structure family of oxide-ion conductors: NdBaInO4 (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Tokyo Institute of Technology) ... Currently, most research about oxide-ion conducting ceramics is limited to materials with specific structure-types, such as fluorites, perovskites, KNiF, mellilites, and apatites. However, it is necessary to investigate new structure-type ceramics for the further development of oxide-ion conductors ... Reference1 ... New Perovskite-Related Structure Family of Oxide-Ion Conducting Materials NdBaInO ... DOI .....

Quarterly Web-conference (Dyesol Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Dyesol Limited) ... VDL of The Netherlands and Dyesol Collaborate on Major Area Demonstration Prototype Quarterly TAB Milestone of 7% Perovskite Strip Cells on Metal Substrates Achieved Turkey Quietly Progressing Dyesol Joins ASX All Ordinaries Index....

Grupo Arcano's fraudulent tale has an Australian chapter

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 May 2016
It's not often that a self-proclaimed multi-billionaire disappears to Malta after his personal history as an early Google investor and Stanford graduate is revealed to be false. It's even rarer for such an elaborate tale of Chilean corporate fraud to reach the office towers of Sydney ... The company is developing next-generation solar cells made of hybrid perovskites instead of silicon ... ....

Flipping a chemical switch helps perovskite solar cells beat the heat

Edit Science Daily 26 Apr 2016
A simple chemical conversion could be another step toward making cheap, efficient and stable perovskite solar cells ... ....

PAIiIZ and Bridge One for start-ups (Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency). Together with Bridge One venture capital PAIiIZ will support Polish star-ups and innovators ... PAIiIZ and Bridge One have very ambitious plans ... has been founded by Aleksandra Malinkiewicz - Polish young scientists that is deleloping a unique photovoltaic technology basing on perovskites....

Flipping a chemical switch helps perovskite solar cells beat the heat (Brown University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
A simple chemical conversion could be another step toward making cheap, efficient and stable perovskite solar cells ... [Brown University] - Thin films of crystalline materials called perovskites provide a promising new way of making inexpensive and efficient solar cells ... 'The technique is simple and has the potential to be scaled up, which overcomes a real bottleneck in perovskite research at the moment.'....

Insights from UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center Research Summit (UCSD - University of California - San Diego)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Apr 2016
(Source. UCSD - University of California - San Diego) ... Center faculty are also training and mentoring tomorrow's workforce for green and advanced energy ... Wang went on to present a related poster, Additives in Perovskite Solar Cell Play Key Role, at Research Expo, also on April 14 ... He presented his poster Spatially Heterogeneous Chlorine Incorporation in Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells at Research Expo ... Faculty talks ... (noodl....

How cheap does solar power need to get before it takes over the world?

Edit Vox 18 Apr 2016
perovskites, quantum dots, robots…. (Boshu Zhang, Wong Choon Lim Glenn & Mingzhen Liu) A prototype of a perovskite solar cell. For example, some scientists are currently tinkering in laboratories with solar cells made from a material called perovskites ... This technology isn't yet ready for prime time, but in theory we might one day make ultra-cheap, thin, transparent perovskite cells that could (say) coat our shingles and windows....
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