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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Six years ago, an MIT engineering team at the university’s ...

Solar cell technology is a seen as a key pillar in our transition to cleaner forms of energy, but within this field there is all kinds of room for experimentation. Solar cells that are thin and ...

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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 ...

MIT researchers claim to have created a revolutionary solar-powered desalination system powered directly from sunlight without any auxiliary external power or batteries. The invention has 'adapted to ...

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 ...

MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, flexible, durable, lightweight solar cells that can be stuck to any surface. Glued to high-strength fabric, the solar ...