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Italian researchers found a brilliant way to give old solar panels new life. They're extracting silicon from discarded panels and turning it into a high-performance catalyst using palladium nanoparticles.
The recycled material matched commercial catalysts across six cycles with 97% yield—tackling mounting solar waste while creating valuable chemistry tools.

Upcycling silicon from end-of-life solar modules via palladium nanoparticles
Researchers in Italy have developed a Pd/Si catalyst for upcycling silicon from end-of-life PV panels. The system showed performance comparable to commercial-silicon catalysts and stable recycling over six cycles.