nanocrystals Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:37:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Light-Based Hydrogen Production Enhanced by Nanocrystals https://www.greenoptimistic.com/light-based-hydrogen-production-enhanced-by-nanocrystals-20121110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/light-based-hydrogen-production-enhanced-by-nanocrystals-20121110/#respond Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:37:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27941 The U.S. Department of Energy is funding a group of University of Rochester chemists to determine how to increase the output and lower the cost of current light-driven hydrogen-production systems. Hydrogen’s desirability comes from the fact it can be converted into electric energy and produces no carbon emissions. This work builds upon and innovates previous […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/light-based-hydrogen-production-enhanced-by-nanocrystals-20121110/feed/ 0 27941 Solexant's Single Layer Thin Film Solar Cell Proves Both Efficient and Cheap https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solexants-single-layer-thin-film-solar-cell-proves-both-efficient-and-cheap-20091130/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solexants-single-layer-thin-film-solar-cell-proves-both-efficient-and-cheap-20091130/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:53:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5541 A San Jose, California based company called Solexant has started the development of a thin film solar cell which is cheap and very efficient. Solexant is very confident that their serial production thin film solar cell will have and efficiency increase of 10% compared to silicon based cells.

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