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• Interfacial Buffering Breakthrough Pushes Organic Solar Cell Efficiency to Record 20.21 Percent Milestone

  Published: May 1, 2026

  Section: Research

  Researchers have developed a new interfacial buffering strategy to prevent solvent erosion in pseudo-planar heterojunction organic solar cells. By introducing a highly crystalline...

• Manchester Scientists Challenge 'Upcycling' and 'Downcycling' Labels as Misleading Barriers to Plastic Circularity

  Published: Feb 26, 2026

  Section: Environment

  A new paper from The University of Manchester argues that directional terms like "upcycling" and "downcycling" create false value judgments that obscure the true environmental impa...