7+ hour, 33+ min ago  (368+ words) Syntholene's geothermal-integrated SOEC hydrogen platform could produce hydrogen at an estimated $1. 75$2. 10/kg, about one-third the cost of comparable unsubsidized green hydrogen in Europe. Its Iceland demonstration facility aims to validate low-emission hydrogen production and support future commercial-scale deployment, while addressing…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (347+ words) University of Adelaide researchers, along with scientists from Japan's Tohoku University, the Tokyo University of Science, and Vanderbilt University in the United States, have successfully developed microscopic iridium catalysts that could result in improved production of green hydrogen. The researchers…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (231+ words) Scientists used boron nitride, a synthetic crystalline compound, to build membranes containing millions of microscopic tubes that move lithium ions far faster than other charged particles. Lithium transport was observed at up to 31 times the rate expected from standard diffusion....

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (446+ words) Researchers from the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) have conducted a 1-year test to measure the outdoor performance of peroskvsite solar technologies and have found that several factors…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (573+ words) University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney researchers have used precise 3 D imaging to show how trapped bubbles affect the efficacy of electrolyzers in the production of green hydrogen. The research addresses a critical bottleneck in industrial-scale electrolyzers, where hydrogen…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (359+ words) Researchers at the German institute built a photovoltaic water electrolysis system based on micro-concentrator photovoltaics coupled to proton exchange membrane electrolysis. Outdoor testing demonstrated a record solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 31. 3%, achieved by a four-junction CPV system driving two PEM cells in…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (240+ words) A sodium-ion accumulator stack Image: Ra Boe, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3. 0 DE "The new electrolyte represents a new strategy to regulate Na solvation structure that can facilitate favorable reactions and suppress unwanted ones," the research's lead author, An L. Phan, told…...

1+ year, 1+ day ago  (531+ words) Testing conducted by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany has shown that perovskite solar cells operating at high latitudes in Europe may suffer from higher performance losses in winter compared to conventional PV devices. The scientists warned, however, that at…...

8+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (569+ words) Tests conducted by a research team in outdoor environments in Spain and Poland have demonstrated a strong correlation between perovskite solar cell degradation and the combined effects of climatic and operating conditions. The scientists found that open-circuit operation accelerates degradation,…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (647+ words) pv magazine International Conductive smart hydrogels as battery electrolytes: Promising for lithium, sodium, and zinc-ion chemistries Hydrogels offer promise in batteries as an electrolyte, including lithium and sodium chemistries, due to being inherently more safe. Image: Petra Klawikowski, Wikimedia Commons,…...