Research
Our Research Focus
From Sunlight to Sustainable Materials
HUGE's primary focus is the complete cycle from energy harvesting to energy storage to sustainable materials.
Why Solar Energy?
One striking fact: just one hour of solar irradiation over the globe matches humanity’s total annual energy needs. With Israel’s abundance of sunlight, solar energy is our natural starting point.
Our research addresses new materials and light-harvesting technologies for next generation solar photovoltaic panels.
Solar Paint
Easily deployed solar paint for cost-effective PV surfaces.
Agro-PV
Dual-use solutions combining solar fields with agriculture.
Next-Gen Panels
New materials and light-harvesting tech for advanced solar devices.
Solar Fuels & Hydrogen
A complementary challenging approach for solar energy harvesting is its direct conversion to energy stored in chemical bonds of a “solar fuel”.
Sustainable Materials
Green hydrogen produced via combined photo- and electro-catalysis is a primary leading target of our research efforts. It is also essential for numerous processes to produce added value sustainable materials via innovative catalytic approaches, manifesting an additional facet of the center’s focal points.
Energy Storage
Energy storage utilizing innovative next-generation batteries and supercapacitors constitutes another key research area with near and longer-term expected impacts.
Our Approach
To address this major endeavor, HUGE takes a holistic approach encompassing and promoting excellent research enabled by state-of-the-art research infrastructure operated by an expert scientific-technological staff, offering outstanding hands-on guidance and education for our students, and fostering translation of the research outcomes to technological realization and commercialization.