With 3D Printing and Butterfly Wings to New Standards in Solar Power
When nature and technology join up, wonderful things (can) happen. Just think of all the inspiration mother earth provides for
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Turning Solar Energy into Electricity with Laser Printing
Until now, the process of producing nanomaterials based on copper, cobalt and nickel oxides has required a great amount of energy and time. But this might be coming to an end soon thanks to a team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.
Continue Reading3D Printing Is A Game-Changer For The Power Sector
3D printing is the way forward for the power sector, says leading data and analytics company GlobalData. The future technology is proving itself as an effective advancement for wind power and is about to conquer other parts of the industry as well. Siemens, GE, Rosatom and Westinghouse have been early adapters in the industrialization of 3D printing.
Continue ReadingResearchers Develop Method to Make Perovskite Solar Cells Scalable
Printed solar cells sound good in theory but scalability has held the technology back. Until now, because scientists from Swansea University have come up with a way to make it more practical for at-large operations.
Continue ReadingPrinted Solar Cells: Capturing Sunlight on Paper
The cost of energy generated by solar power has drastically declined over the past 40 years due to new technologies and efficiency improvements. The latest invention in this field comes from Aalto University and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Their scientists recently developed a simple printing process that allows to print pictures able to generate power.
Continue ReadingSolar cells fresh off the printing press
Imagine a future in which you can carry your power supply with you: On your laptop, your cell phone and even on your clothes. This is what scientists around the world are trying to achieve in their efforts to create organic printable solar cells.
Continue ReadingFuture Links September 8th 2015
Here are our daily links with the most important news from the printing industry. Today they feature a printed beetle trap, an iPhone app that turns photos into a printed magazine, a forecast for the Chinese 3D printing market, commuters as the targeted readership of a new magazine, a solar powered 3D printer for medical devices, the benefits of strategic packaging and Premier Papers program that lets customers get carbon capture certified. New on the drupa blog: 3D printed microbots can remove toxins from liquids.
Continue ReadingHow to Reduce The Waste of Resources via Modern Packaging
In this day and age, packaging has become indispensable in our everyday life, especially in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors. There are regulatory frameworks dictating the disposal of production waste and operating materials that have played a major part in waste management. However, it lies in our hands to lessen the burden on the climate. How can we reduce the consumables on a large scale with the help of modern packaging?
Continue ReadingResearch Team to Build Offshore Wind Infrastructure With 3D-Printed Concrete
A team of researchers from Purdue University teamed up with a young start-up to improve the way we are building offshore wind infrastructure, by developing a concrete mixture to use to 3D print anchors for wind turbines, traditionally manufactured by using finished steel.
Continue ReadingWaterproof E-Textiles In Minutes With Laser Printing
Scientists from RMIT University have developed a cost-efficient method to laser print the next generation of waterproof smart fabric. The e-textiles are embedded with an energy storage device providing energy harvesting technologies.
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