Home > Extreme MIT stacks solar panels like pancakes, increases their power output by up to 20x What's better than one pancake? A whole stack of pancakes! Using the same logic, a team of MIT ...

A new study out of MIT has created an autonomously functioning robot that can act like a lab technician to test materials, in particular for the properties needed to make solar cells. It can collect ...

Forward-looking: A new chapter in materials science is unfolding at MIT, where researchers have developed a fully autonomous robotic system designed to accelerate the search for advanced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, more ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their polymer coating could be used to protect photovoltaic modules, due to its impermeability to gases. The team has demonstrated that a ...

Active Surfaces founders, including Shiva Bhakta (on right) and Richard Swartout, (second from left) with summer interns from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Photo: MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ...

Here's how scientists are peeking into the future of new materials. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign ...

An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Perovskite solar cells, inspired by the mineral with ...

Wen Shuhao helped speed up the development of Pfizer’s Covid oral drug, Paxlovid. Now the cofounder and chairman of Hong Kong-listed Xtalpi wants to help make better solar panels and EV batteries. In ...

Existing solar thermochemical hydrogen production systems have low efficiency, but MIT's design could harness up to 40% of solar heat for hydrogen generation. The breakthrough system relies solely on ...