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Wearable Health Sensor Uses Smartphone Camera to Measure Vascular Stiffness

It looks like a small, transparent patch with a rainbow on its surface - or for those old enough to remember, the back of a CD.

1 Nov 2026

Innovative Crystallization Process Paves Way for Ultra-Efficient Camera Sensors

Crystals in the lab aren't gemstones. They're materials built from atoms arranged in precise, repeating patterns. That atomic order lets crystals absorb light, move charge and convert energy, enabling technologies from LEDs and solar cells to the sensors in everyday cameras.

31 Oct 2026

Proposed Theory Unlocks the Complex Internal Real-Space Textures of Polarons

Polarons are fundamental quasiparticles in solids. (Quasiparticles are excitations that act like particles despite their complex many-body interactions with their environment.)

30 Oct 2026

Beyond the Rooftop: How Perovskite PV is Redefining Solar Applications

For decades, the expansion of solar energy has been constrained by the physical limitations of its core technology. Traditional silicon solar panels are remarkably effective, but they are also heavy, rigid, and opaque.

24 Oct 2026

Machine Learning Narrows Half a Million Perovskites to 38 Solar Candidates

Researchers developed a multi-phase machine-learning framework to rapidly predict electronic band gaps and screen oxide perovskites for potential photovoltaic applications. Starting from more than half a million candidate structures, the approach progressively narrowed the search to a small group of band-gap-compatible compositions that now require higher-level computational and experimental validation.

25 Aug 2026

Get More Insight From Beam-Sensitive Materials: Analytical Cryo-STEM Solution is Now Available on Tescan TENSOR™

Beam-sensitive materials can hold the answers to some of today’s most important research questions, but they can also be the hardest to analyze.

From Tescan 14 Aug 2026

A Project Develops “Cool” Façades Expected to Reduce Summer Building Temperatures by up to 2 °C

Every summer, the façades, roofs and pavements of cities absorb a large share of solar radiation and act as heat accumulators.

From AIMPLAS 29 Jul 2026

Hoenle Launches New Bluepoint LED UV Spot Curing System

Hoenle announces the market launch of its new bluepoint LED UV spot curing system.

From Hoenle AG 15 Jul 2026

CityUHK Researchers Achieve First-Ever Recycling Spin-Triplet Excitons for Power Generation, Boosting Organic Photovoltaics Efficiency to 20.5%

In organic photovoltaics (OPV), low-energy spin-triplet excitons (T1) have long been regarded as “energy traps” that often dissipate energy as heat rather than contributing to light-to-electricity conversion.

7 Jul 2026

Lead-Free Perovskites Push Solar Cells Toward Safer High-Efficiency Designs

Lead-free perovskite solar cells are emerging as lower-toxicity alternatives to lead-based devices, but they still face major barriers in efficiency, stability, defect control, and scalable fabrication. This review shows how compositional engineering, crystallization control, passivation, and device architecture have enabled tin-based cells to reach 17.13% efficiency, while highlighting the durability trade-offs that still limit commercialization.

1 Jun 2026

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