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Nouryon Adds Rooftop Solar at Two Sites

June 27, 2025
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The installations reduce Scope 2 emissions and mark the company’s first solar project in the region.



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Self-Cleaning Coatings for Space or Earth

Transparent Electrodynamic Dust Shields Usable for Solar Cells
NASA Technology Transfer Program
December 10, 2024
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NASA’s new transparent coating technology efficiently clears dust from solar cells, operating at half the voltage and 90% thinner than current solutions.


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Solar Glass Coatings Enhance Electricity Production

Strategic Market Research
July 3, 2023
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The United States has increased the use of solar and wind power for electricity production. The U.S. Department of Energy claims that preserving your panels' surface with a glass coating can boost the photoelectric effect by up to 3-6%, therefore boosting potential demand in the glass coatings market. 


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Infrared Colorants for Cool Coatings

Michael McCormick
January 5, 2016
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There are colorants containing infrared-reflective materials with both solvent and water-based formulas designed for broad compatibility in coatings.


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Biomimetic Non-Reflective Coating for Solar Cells Wins MADMEC

October 4, 2015
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Biomimicry — known as “innovation inspired by nature” — has led to the invention of bullet trains, vaccines, adhesives and light bulbs, among other things.


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Stanford Engineers Invent Transparent Coating That Cools Solar Cells to Boost Efficiency

September 27, 2015
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Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe, as heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.


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New Nanoparticles Make Solar Cells Cheaper to Manufacture

September 8, 2013
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University of Alberta researchers have found that abundant materials in the earth's crust can be used to make inexpensive, easily manufactured nanoparticle-based solar cells.


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It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Solar Impulse!

New Coating Technology Helps Build Solar Aircraft
Jackie Guscott
August 1, 2013
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Outstanding chemistry makes solar flight possible


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DSM Opens New Plant for Anti-Reflective Coating

April 28, 2013
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Royal DSM has opened its newly constructed manufacturing plant for KhepriCoat® anti-reflective coating at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands.


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Potential for a New Generation of Solar-Reflective Coatings

New Coating Pigment Gives High Infrared Reflectance
Dr. Robert Portsmouth
March 1, 2013
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The ALTIRIS pigment has been engineered to reflect infrared radiation from the sun, yielding high solar reflectance in a range of colors.
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