Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy: They have developed an innovative light-harvesting system. In order to convert sunlight into electricity ...

What just happened? The solar energy revolution might be about to shift into an even higher gear. Researchers in Germany have developed a groundbreaking new light-harvesting system that could drive a ...

Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a novel material capable of capturing light energy.

Researchers in Germany developed a new solar cell design that uses organic dyes to capture a wider range of sunlight. The URPB system achieved 38% energy conversion efficiency in lab tests, compared ...

When photosynthetic cells absorb light from the sun, packets of energy called photons leap between a series of light-harvesting proteins until they reach the photosynthetic reaction center. There, ...

The structural formulas of the four merocyanine dyes (left) that form the new light-harvesting system URPB when stacked (right). In order to convert sunlight into electricity or other forms of energy ...

Inspired by nature, researchers have created a novel material capable of capturing light energy. This material provides a highly efficient artificial light-harvesting system with potential ...