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July 2024

July 17, 2024

Into Another Dimension: Nanoscale Trilayer Exhibits Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Semiconductor Materials

Deriving inspiration from the natural process of photosynthesis, NREL researchers developed a mixed-dimensionality (2D/1D/2D) trilayer of semiconductors to enable exciton dissociation.

July 16, 2024

Sreekant Narumanchi Travels the Intersection of Heat Transfer, Power Electronics, and Electric Motors to Electrification of Vehicles

Sreekant Narumanchi, who leads NREL's Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines group, was chosen as one of NREL's Distinguished Researchers in 2024.

July 15, 2024

NREL Transportation Researchers Recognized for Teamwork, Leadership, and Expertise at DOE Annual Merit Review

Each year, awards are presented to individuals from Department of Energy national laboratories and other partner organizations for their contributions to overall program efforts and in recognition of their research, development, demonstration, and deployment achievements in specific areas.

July 15, 2024

Stellar Year for the Solar Market, at Home and Abroad

The year 2023, according to NREL analyst David Feldman, was a year of historic proportions in the solar power industry.

July 11, 2024

Offshore Wind Turbines Offer Path for Clean Hydrogen Production

Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at NREL.

July 11, 2024

NREL Research Dives Deeper Into the Mysteries of Energy Control in Electron-Bifurcating Enzymes

Since 2019, NREL senior scientist Cara Lubner and her team have made considerable progress toward mapping the energy landscape of an enzymatic reaction.

July 2, 2024

Facilities Invited To Join New Hydropower Testing Network

The new Hydropower Testing Network connects hydropower technology developers with testing capability providers that can help developers advance their technologies toward commercialization.

July 2, 2024

GCxN Company's Feedstock Poised To Be More Economical and Versatile

Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass Founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN).

July 1, 2024

News Release: Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control From Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors

A research effort led by scientists at NREL has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic devices.

July 1, 2024

Escaping the Lab Into the Sunlight: Research Examines Durability of Outdoor Perovskite Solar Cells

New research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy examines degradation mechanisms of PSCs under the unfiltered sunlight of the outdoors in comparison with widely used light-emitting diodes.


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