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.
Researchers developed a machine learning framework to map ESG-driven conflict risks across energy transition mineral mining projects, using 112,766 conflict events and 16 environmental, social, and governance indicators. The study found that environmental factors drove most modeled risk, with tungsten showing the highest overall risk, platinum the lowest, and lithium most affected by water-stress-related environmental risk.
Element Six (E6), a global leader in synthetic diamond and advanced material technologies, has partnered with UK-based clean-tech innovator Oxi-Tech Solutions to make industrial cleaning safer, greener and more effective, eliminating the need to rely on harsh chemicals
A new UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre report finds that demand for technology metals used in EVs, batteries, wind turbines, and solar PVs will rise sharply as the UK moves toward net zero.
Secondary supply from end-of-life technologies could become important after 2040, but the UK must invest in recycling, refining, and reverse supply chains to capture that value.
A new SHIEG framework shows how geothermal reservoirs, renewable power, thermal storage, and intelligent control systems could work together to create cleaner, more reliable, and more resilient local energy networks.
Jenike & Johanson, a global leader in bulk solids handling and processing, has been granted a patent for its Jen-Zero™ technology—an engineered solution designed to overcome one of the most persistent challenges in biofuels production: reliably feeding low-density biomass and municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstocks into high-pressure reactors.
Safer and more environmentally friendly indoor solar panels could soon help power electronics in homes and offices, thanks to University of Queensland researchers.
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is leading IRION, a European research and innovation project aimed at building a more sustainable and resilient green hydrogen value chain.
Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered a renewable, bio-based polymer membrane capable of efficiently capturing toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from water, offering a potential new route to more sustainable water treatment.
A novel method converts industrial lignin waste into porous materials for effective removal of pollutants and bacteria from water, enhancing sustainability.
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