Tech innovations and Startups

Rinnovabili • Plant genetic resources: the foundation of future food security
Agriculture & food
Plant genetic resources are key to the future of global food security

Plant genetic resources are a heritage we must preserve at all costs. They are essential to face the growing threats to global food security: population growth, climate…

Rinnovabili • SHJ solar cells with silver: record low 1.4 mg/W
Energy
Fraunhofer ISE cuts silver use in…

Thanks to copper-based metallization, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy…

Rinnovabili • Fully organic solar cells: record efficiency boost with new electrode
Energy
Fully organic solar cells: efficiency doubles

Thanks to a transparent polymer electrode and a new lamination method, fully…


Rinnovabili • BMW
Tech innovations and Startups
BMW designs autonomous driving for factory

BMW Startup Garage joins forces with two young technology companies - Seoul Robotics and Embotech -…

Rinnovabili • green-hudrogen
Water
Green hydrogen from waste water, if energy meets water safety

Creating a distributed infrastructure of small-scale, wastewater-capable electrolysers could make green hydrogen production more economical and…

Rinnovabili • perovskite
Tech innovations and Startups
All-perovskite tandem photovoltaics, towards mass production

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a prototype 12.25 m2 module with a…

Rinnovabili • recycled bricks
Tech innovations and Startups
From AquiPor recycled bricks that filter pollutants from rainwater

AquiPor technology creates porous tiles for the floor, which allow rainwater to pass through, retaining the…

Rinnovabili • solar-cell
Tech innovations and Startups
Almost invisible solar cell arrives from Tohoku University

A group of Japanese researchers has created a solar cell with Schottky junction, which allows the…

Rinnovabili • space waste
Tech innovations and Startups
Nanoracks’ new space waste disposal solutions

Nanoracks is developing a system that will improve the collection and disposal of ISS space waste…

Rinnovabili • hydrogen
Tech innovations and Startups
From nzeb to H-ZEB: the first hydrogen building inaugurated in Benevento

The H-ZEB hydrogen building is the first in Europe to host a micro-generator powered by pure…

Rinnovabili • agrivoltaic
Tech innovations and Startups
Solar beer, France tests innovative agrivoltaic for hops

The project, carried out by Q Energy France in the Loire, combines the production of solar…

Rinnovabili • biobattery
Tech innovations and Startups
Bacterial biobattery produces electricity for weeks

Engineers at Binghamton University have developed a battery containing three layers of different species of bacteria,…

Rinnovabili • perovskite
Tech innovations and Startups
UK: a new perovskite ink for a very thin photovoltaic

From a group of researchers at the University of Surrey, a new approach to the large-scale…

Rinnovabili • hypercar
Tech innovations and Startups
Here is Apricale, the hydrogen hypercar designed by Pininfrina

The British Viritech presented at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the first car in the world…

Rinnovabili • biopolyester
Tech innovations and Startups
PET-like biopolyester created from agricultural waste

EPFL scientists demonstrated the direct transformation of inedible lignocellulosic sugars into a plastic precursor