NJIT Researchers Develop Inexpensive, Easy Process To Produce Solar Panels

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.njit.edu/publicinfo/press_releases/release_1040.php

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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. “The process is simple,” said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT’s Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. “Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.”

“Fullerene single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells,” featured as the June 21, 2007 cover story of the Journal of Materials Chemistry published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, details the process. The Society, based at Oxford University, is the British equivalent of the American Chemical Society.

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http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/JM/article.asp?doi=b618518e

[pinto]

1. Thanks for the find. Interesting piece, interesting development.

[kestrel91316]

2. We can only hope THIS is true - it would be revolutionary:

“.....Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers......"

[Schema Thing]

3. Yes.... "inexpensive" inkjet printers would be revolutionary! :-D

[Chulanowa]

4. I love it!

Hypothetical technology that's innovativeness relies on more hypothetical technology!

[Gregorian]

5. Nanotubes and Buckyballs. Interesting article.

This is the stuff I've been waiting for. I heard about this a few years back, but never got the specifics. Maybe we can stop killing each other soon. Sorry, I digressed. I meant to say YAY for bright thinkers.

Nanotubes carry current with less resistance than copper. Man, that's incredible.

You know, we need a hell of a lot of oil for THINGS. Not just for burning in pistons. I think that tidbit of info goes under the radar of most people. It's nearly half the oil we use.

[Usrename]

6. This looks like the real deal.

This made a really big stir at slashdot last week, and as far as anyone can tell, it's real.