Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology used to quantify the
environmental impacts of products, processes and services. Circular economy (CE) thinking …

Al-doped ZnO nanoparticles are synthesized by means of a heating up solution based
thermal decomposition method. The synthesis involves a reaction of zinc acetylacetonate …

Trapping light in silicon solar cells is essential as it allows an increase in the absorption of
incident sunlight in optically thin silicon absorber layers. This way, the costs of the solar cells …

The development of nontoxic and cost-effective solar cell devices is one of the challenging
tasks even now. With this objective, solar cell devices using tin mono sulfide (SnS) thin films …

When cells encapsulated with EVA are subjected to the same damp heat treatment, the
effect on the voltage is considerably reduced. In this situation the EVA is saturated with …

A number of metals that are now important to the electronics industry (and others) will
become much more important in the future if current trends in technology continue. It is …

Clean energy technologies represent a promising solution to the global warming challenge.
However, many of them depend on some minor metals, and concerns about their rapidly …

Lighting technologies including fluorescent lamps (FL) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are
significant enough to reduce buildings' energy demand and associated CO2 emissions …

Battery and fuel-cell electric vehicles (EVs) are considered as a means to meet some of the
environmental and resource challenges of today''s road vehicle system. EVs have the …

In this article, levels of future specific vehicle emissions and the energy efficiency required to
match long-term environmental targets are estimated. The possibility of reaching these …