Articles Tagged with ''Solar Coatings''

NASA’s new transparent coating technology efficiently clears dust from solar cells, operating at half the voltage and 90% thinner than current solutions.

The United States has increased the use of solar and wind power for electricity production. The U.S. Department of Energy claims that preserving your panels' surface with a glass coating can boost the photoelectric effect by up to 3-6%, therefore boosting potential demand in the glass coatings market. 

There are colorants containing infrared-reflective materials with both solvent and water-based formulas designed for broad compatibility in coatings.

Biomimicry — known as “innovation inspired by nature” — has led to the invention of bullet trains, vaccines, adhesives and light bulbs, among other things.

Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe, as heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.

University of Alberta researchers have found that abundant materials in the earth's crust can be used to make inexpensive, easily manufactured nanoparticle-based solar cells.

Outstanding chemistry makes solar flight possible

Royal DSM has opened its newly constructed manufacturing plant for KhepriCoat^® anti-reflective coating at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands.

Magnolia Solar Corp. (Magnolia Solar), developer of thin-film solar cell technologies employing nanostructured materials and designs, announced that Dr. Roger E. Welser, the Chief Technology Officer of its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar Inc., presented a paper at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, entitled "Nanostructured Transparent Conductive Oxides for Photovoltaic Applications," as part of a special session on photovoltaic technologies.