dye sensitized cell Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:17:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 DIY: How to Make a Solar Cell at Home From Readily Available Stuff and… Blackberries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-make-solar-cell-2-20100413/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-make-solar-cell-2-20100413/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:56:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7343 A very neat experiment that anyone with some skills can do in the garage or kitchen is creating a solar cell out of blackberry juice and titanium dioxide (and several other components).

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-to-make-solar-cell-2-20100413/feed/ 2 7343 Chemistry Professor Innovation Making Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells More Efficient and Durable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/benoit-marsan-graetzel-solar-cell-20100407/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/benoit-marsan-graetzel-solar-cell-20100407/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:56:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7280 Dye-sensitized (Graetzel) solar cells have been in the spot of many minds since they were first created in early ’90s by Michael Graetzel, from EPFL, Switzerland. Until now, dye-sensitized solar cells only proved to be cheap, but also inefficient. New technologies are expected to improve their performances. Graetzel cells work on the same principle photosynthesis […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/benoit-marsan-graetzel-solar-cell-20100407/feed/ 1 7280 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Got Better by Using Ionic Salts https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gratzel-cell-ionic-salts-20091014/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gratzel-cell-ionic-salts-20091014/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:43:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4778 A group of researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, led by Juan Antonio Anta, are working on optimizing Grätzel solar cells by incorporating ionic salts, known as green solvents, with a view to preventing evaporation of the liquid compounds and the consequent reduction in efficiency. Grätzel (dye-sensitized) cells work by using […]

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