Energy

Collaboration between government and startups could help meet the climate challenge while growing small businesses. Findings could inform discussions...

A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up...

Researchers have set a new efficiency record for LEDs based on perovskite semiconductors, rivalling that of the best organic LEDs (OLEDs).

The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by...

Researchers have identified a group of materials that could be used to make even higher power batteries. The researchers, from the University of...

Scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have found a way to create plastic semiconductor nanostructures that absorb light and...

Researchers have shown that certain superconductors – materials that carry electrical current with zero resistance at very low temperatures – can...

A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next-generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricity.