Many everyday materials, ranging from plastic grocery bags to airplane wings and cast-iron supporting beams for highway bridges, are fabricated by freezing liquids into polycrystalline solid ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Solar energy, once a sideline to carbon-based energy sources, is rapidly ...

When opting to use solar panels as a power source for your home or business, the choices tend to revolve around where to place them and how big they should be. But there's at least one more decision ...

Feng's team from Tsinghua University has reported an innovative study on optimizing the thermoelectric performance of SnSe via liquid phase sintering.

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to solve a difficult problem in crystal science. Seeking to understand why crystals develop tiny defects called dislocations, the researchers discovered ...

Scientists from Pakistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have conceived a new experimental setup to conduct hail impact tests for photovoltaic modules. The first tests showed that monocrystalline panels lose ...

We used a multi-anvil apparatus for high-pressure synthesis 1. A pure polycrystalline graphite (99.9995%) rod was found to transform into a transparent, colourless phase in only a few minutes at ...

Scientists from the Multidisciplinary Core Institute for Future Energies (MCIFE) in South Korea have fabricated a polycrystalline solar cell using a semiconductor–water interface that reportedly ...

Researchers show that for the first time they have achieved atomic-scale observations of grain rotation in polycrystalline materials. Using state-of-the-art microscopy tools, the scientists were able ...

At a glance, all solar panels might look alike, or at least very similar. Look closely and you'll notice some subtle differences, namely the color of the solar cells. Those differences can mean a lot, ...