Tech innovations and Startups

Rinnovabili • Record-Breaking Nanoporous Carbon: A Teaspoon Holds a “Football Field”
Energy
Record-Breaking Nanoporous Carbon: A Teaspoon Holds a “Football Field”

Discover Cornell University's record-breaking nanoporous carbon: a revolutionary material with a surface area of 4,800 m²/g. Perfect for carbon capture and energy storage, this innovation is shaping…

Rinnovabili • 3D-Printed Concrete Captures CO2 and Boosts Strength
Constructions
Injecting Steam and CO2 Makes 3D-Printed…

The innovative process developed by NTU Singapore injects a stream of steam…

Rinnovabili • Batteries: Lithium Metal Anode Lifespan, +750% with Water and Rubber
Chemicals
Batteries: Lithium Metal Anode Lifespan, +750%…

The lifespan of lithium metal batteries extended thanks to an eco-friendly nanofiber-based…


Rinnovabili • solar cell factory
Energy
The largest thin film solar cell factory in Europe is born in…

The Swedish company has received a new grant from Invitalia to complete its Apulian plant of…

Rinnovabili • organic photovoltaics
Energy
The efficiency of organic photovoltaics reaches 20%

Realized a high performance ternary organic solar cell thanks to two isomeric non-ferrous acceptors

Rinnovabili • water generator
Water
Home atmospheric water generator born

A startup broke through the fundraising roof to produce a cost-effective and efficient atmospheric water generator

Rinnovabili • LONGi
Tech innovations and Startups
LONGi launches Hi-MO X6 Max modules, standard wafer sizes

The Chinese manufacturer has launched new photovoltaic modules using 72-cell rectangular silicon wafers, resulting from the…

Rinnovabili • direct air capture
Tech innovations and Startups
A “battery” of activated carbon improves the direct air capture of CO2

A fabric in activated carbon filled with hydroxide ions allows to capture CO2 with performance similar…

Rinnovabili • Floating photovoltaics on lakes
Tech innovations and Startups
Floating photovoltaics on lakes, where is the greatest potential?

A new international study has calculated the global potential for the implementation of floating solar panels…

Rinnovabili • Solar cell tandem perovskite/TOPcon
Tech innovations and Startups
JinkoSolar’s perovskite/TOPcon solar cell sets the record

The Chinese photovoltaic company has achieved a conversion efficiency of 33.34%, the highest ever touched with…

Rinnovabili • Electrolysis cells
Tech innovations and Startups
Electrolysis cells Ni-GDC for the future power-to-X

DTU researchers manufactured and tested a new type of ceramic electrolysis cells with special electrodes that…

Rinnovabili • cement enriched with coffee grounds
Tech innovations and Startups
In Australia the first tests on cement enriched with coffee grounds

RMIT research has produced the world’s first real-life experiment for cement enriched with coffee grounds

Rinnovabili • Solid-state sodium-air battery
Tech innovations and Startups
Solid-state sodium-air battery sets new record

A South Korean research group has successfully developed a high-energy solid electrolyte sodium-air battery with energy…

Rinnovabili • metamaterial
Tech innovations and Startups
How to fight the heat in the house with transparent metamaterial

Created a polymer-based microfotonic metamaterial that allows light diffusion and radiative cooling,maintaining a high level of…

Rinnovabili • Convert CO2
Tech innovations and Startups
Convert CO2 with renewable energy storage systems

Two prototypes of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory combine CO2 capture with energy storage. By exploiting…