Engineers in Germany have now developed an ultra-thin coating that can make solar panels and other surfaces self-cleaning. Solar is the biggest source of renewable energy, and it’s growing quickly.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur have developed a coating technology for self-cleaning of solar panel surfaces. (For insights on emerging themes at the intersection ...

Read Less The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-Jodhpur) have developed the coating technology for easy and self-cleaning of solar panel surfaces. These coatings are ...

Micro-scratches — caused by dragging scratchy sand particles across the surface in the frequent cleaning process — deteriorate the antireflective coating ... Solar robotic cleaner: the system is ...

A team of researchers led by NYU Tandon has found a simple yet powerful way to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panels ...

Solar panels are a vital part of the clean energy revolution, converting sunlight into electricity for homes and businesses. However, their efficiency can ...

Researchers in Germany have created a coating that ... has developed a means of making glass facades, as well as solar panels, self-cleaning. This new technology is based on the ability of ...

This collaborative program aims to enhance global partnerships. It focuses on merging self-cleaning coating technology for solar panels, an area of expertise for partner organizations, with cooling ...

A coating 100 times thinner than a human hair could be “ink-jetted” onto your backpack, cell phone or car roof to harness the sun’s energy, new research shows, in a development that could ...

In future, the researchers are looking at studying the durability of self-cleaning coating in real-time in different regions of the country, such as arid and semi-arid desert regions, coastal ...