Whenever someone asks ChatGPT a question, heat is generated somewhere in the server room—a data center. When an electric ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have designed a class of molecules whose ability to amplify light energy can be actively controlled by simply applying pressure. The findings, published in the journal ...

Researchers in China proposed a solar-driven integrated system that combines reversible heat pump and organic Rankine cycle ...

The past five years have seen significant cost reductions in photovoltaics and a correspondingly strong increase in uptake, with photovoltaics now positioned to provide one of the lowest-cost options ...

When light interacts with metallic nanostructures, it instantaneously generates plasmonic hot carriers, which serve as key intermediates for converting optical energy into high-value energy sources ...

At the heart of energy conversion, electrons and protons move in an intricate, coordinated dance. Chemists at Yale and in Sweden say they may have learned the steps to a new, photo-chemical rhumba.

In many countries, long, dark winters limit the amount of solar energy that can be generated for much of the year. That's where the Underground Sun Conversion system comes in, as it's intended to use ...

The field of nanocomposites, particularly those involving two-dimensional (2D) materials integrated with other 2D or zero-dimensional (0D) nanostructures, ...