More clean energy jobs are coming to North Carolina. Forge Battery, part of Colorado-based Forge Nano, will build a production plant in Morrisville and hire more than 200 people while investing $142 million.
(Materials Zone)
A scientist in a lab in Milan examines what looks like an ordinary piece of plexiglass, running a gloved hand along its edge. But if the team at this Italian startup is on the right track, this brown-tinted semi-transparent sheet of plastic could become a skyscraper window that produces electricity from sunlight.
The idea of using glass to produce energy has been around for some time, but Israeli startup Materials Zone is working with colleagues at Glass to Power in Milan to find the precise combination of tiny nanoparticles to embed in the plastic to make this dream a reality, producing windows for high-rise buildings that generate electricity from the sun.