Innovations

Agartala to be a clean energy city in five

years

(Published on: 14

th

July)

The Tripura government has set a target to turn

Agartala into a clean energy city in the next five

years by making all the vehicles compressed

natural gas (CNG) compliant. There are also plans

to supply piped cooking gas to households in the

city.

More:

http://bit.ly/1bbD4WJ

IT-based

India

water

tool

to

help

industries in water management

(Published on: 24

th

July)

Developed by a group of 14 Indian companies in

coordination with the World Business Council for

Sustainable Development (WBCSD), India Water

Tool is a free IT-based resource integrating

groundwater data from across the country.

More:

http://bit.ly/144ElvY

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Flexible

glass

could

make

rooftop solar power cheaper

Researchers at the U.S. government’s National

Renewable Energy Laboratory have built flexible

solar cells using a thin and pliable kind of glass

from Corning, the company that makes the glass

that covers iPhone screens. The new solar cells

could make rooftop solar power far cheaper. The

new solar shingles could be nailed to a roof.

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http://bit.ly/10yxF4Y

See-through

solar

film:

Researchers double efficiency of novel

solar cell

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough

photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA

researchers have developed a two-layer, see-

through solar film that could be placed on

windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other

surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

More:

http://bit.ly/13hzKEe

New plasmonic material could

enable low-cost polymer LEDs, solar cells

Considerable improvement in device performance

of

polymer-based

optoelectronic

devices

is

reported today by researchers from Ulsan National

Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South

Korea. The new plasmonic material, can be applied

to both polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) and

polymer solar cells (PSCs), with world-record high

performance, through a simple and cheap process.

More:

http://bit.ly/12lamPb

Best of both worlds: Solar

hydrogen production breakthrough

Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made

of a metal oxide, HZB and TU Delft scientists have

successfully stored nearly five percent of solar

energy chemically in the form of hydrogen. This is

a major feat as the design of the solar cell is much

simpler than that of the high-efficiency triple-

junction cells based on amorphous silicon or

expensive

III-V

semiconductors

that

are

traditionally used for this purpose.

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http://bit.ly/1aUrCet