Harvesting energy from sunlight continues to be an active area of research which has the potential to benefit society at large. The best silicon-based solar cells have efficiencies around 25% after decades of research. Recently, solar cells based on materials which adopt a structure analogous to the mineral perovskite have shown the potential for high-efficiency […]

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  The earth is home to around 10 million described forms of life and biologists estimate the total amount of different species at about 40 million species. Importantly, variation in […]