Electronics & Semiconductors
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs), solar technologies based on organic semiconductors, have shown great promise both for the scalable provision of clean energy and for the development of solar-powered wearable electronics. Despite ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Acceptor layers made of oligomers can increase the performance of organic solar cells and ensure a long operating life at the same time. This is the result of a series of complex laboratory experiments conducted by materials ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Engineering
Organic solar cells are an emerging technology with a lot of promise. Unlike the ubiquitous silicon solar panel, they have the potential to be lightweight, flexible, and present a variety of colors, making them particularly ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method to treat sewage can efficiently convert leftover sludge to biogas, an advance that could help communities lower their waste treatment costs while helping the environment.
Nov 3, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Powering everything from cellphones to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are part of everyday life—but they also wear out eventually, and that comes with a cost to the environment.
Oct 31, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In a single day, enough sunlight strikes Earth to power the world for an entire year—that is, if we can find a way to capture that energy cheaply and efficiently. While the cost of solar energy has decreased dramatically, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
With the acceleration of urbanization and industrial development, the treatment rate of urban sewage and industrial wastewater has increased year by year. Taking China for instance, there were more than 3000 sewage treatment ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Robotics
Scientists are working on diagnostic techniques that could sniff out chemical compounds from breath, sweat, tears and other bodily emissions and that act as fingerprints of thousands of diseases.
Jun 30, 2022
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Engineering
When looking at the future of production of micro-scale organic electronics, Mohammad Reza Abidian—associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering—sees their potential ...
Jun 24, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The invention of the transistor in 1947 by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain at Bell Laboratories ushered in the age of microelectronics and revolutionized our lives. First, so-called bipolar transistors were invented, in which ...
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Organic matter (or organic material) is matter that has come from a once-living organism; is capable of decay, or the product of decay; or is composed of organic compounds. The definition of organic matter varies upon the subject it is being used for.
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