‘This unassisted water splitting, which is very rare, does not require expensive or scarce resources.’ Team reports first ‘unassisted’ water splitting using... Read more
Ricoh today announced that it has created a novel flexible material “Energy-Generating Rubber” that converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high effic... Read more
This research has the potential to catapult sustainable, energy-efficient materials in a very wide range of applications Discovery Sheds New Light on 175-year-old Principle A new c... Read more
Could be significant ramifications for energy harvesting and solar energy conversion . . . Carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanoparticles enhance photosynthetic activity and stabilit... Read more
The Sun is a huge source of energy. In just one hour, planet Earth is hit by so much sunshine that humankind could cover its energy needs for an entire year if only we knew how to... Read more
A research team at American University of Sharjah (AUS) has made an important breakthrough in energy harvesting technology that can benefit many sectors, from bio-medicine to const... Read more
Martian colonists could use an innovative new technique to harvest energy from carbon dioxide thanks to research pioneered at Northumbria and Edinburgh Universities. The technique,... Read more
Engineers at Lancaster University are working on powering future ‘giant leaps’ for mankind. They are major partners of a consortium working on a new £1 million project to maximise... Read more
Charging mobile phones with sound, like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of Lo... Read more
Flexible plastics that turn mechanical vibrations into electrical energy could spur the development of self-powered sensors and devices The shrinking dimensions and decreased power... Read more
A low-power photodetection system can harness enough energy to power an autonomous sensor and monitoring network Light detectors are used extensively in daily life as brightness se... Read more
A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research conducted at the Wyss Institute of Biologically I... Read more
“Our work demonstrates a simple and inexpensive approach to electromagnetic power harvesting,” Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, resear... Read more
UK company Pro-Teq has developed a new water-resistant, spray-on coating that absorbs UV light during the day and releases it at night, adapting to the lighting conditions in its s... Read more
Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to... Read more
