Researchers working with copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells reported a 20.4 percent efficiency result on flexible polymer films, a level that underscores how far high-performance thin ...

Scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) have set ...

Copper is an essential micronutrient that serves as a cofactor for numerous enzymes, playing a vital role in processes ranging from cellular respiration to antioxidant defence. Eukaryotic cells employ ...

Researchers in Japan have achieved a 12.28% efficiency in a copper gallium selenide solar cell, the highest reported for indium-free wide-bandgap chalcogenide absorbers in the 1.65–1.75 eV range. The ...

A group of scientists from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has fabricated a solar cell based on an absorber made of copper indium sulfide (CuInS 2), a ...

Inflammation of bones is a characteristic of disorders like apical periodontitis. Researchers have found that copper-mediated cell death is an important factor. Copper overload suppresses the ...

The UNSW researchers used copper plating on the front grid of TOPCon cells to reduce performance losses linked to contaminants. Image: UNSW/Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, CC BY 4.0.

Studies in the roundworm model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, headed by scientists at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine and FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, have ...