The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many engineers. Nature found ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

Feb. 4, 2025 — Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and ...

BarcelonaTech (UPC) in Spain have designed hybrid solar cells that can generate electricity and store it onboard. This is the first-ever demonstration of such technology that could revolutionize ...

From 2019 Member of the Executive Board of the GDCh-Division of Sustainable Chemistry. Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion since 1 December 2023.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

Ammonia production via the Haber-Bosch process is the chemical industry’s greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions and ...

Drug discovery is a costly and time-intensive process, with binding free energy calculations between the potential drug ...

Combustion engines only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a ...

Daniel Rosenberg, director of federal toxics policy at the NRDC and the author of that request, said the group is still seeking answers about how the Department of Energy’s focus on chemical ...

So we call it wasted energy. Nuclear energy and chemical energy are other types of potential energy. Potential energy is stored in the atoms that everything is made of or in the bonds that hold ...

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