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Organic Solar Cells With Cobalt Electrolyte Outperforming Silicon PVs

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:44:10 +0000

There’s no way around it. Photovoltaics, while incredibly energy efficient, are expensive. In sharp contrast, dye-based solar cells seem to be a cheaper alternative to traditional solar cells. Looking especially promising are tandem cells made up of a conventional n-type and a p-type dye-sensitive solar cell. P-type cells are different than traditional n-type dye sensitive […]

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G24 Innovations Sells Grätzel's Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for the First Time

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:23:10 +0000

Dye-sensitized solar cells, or Grätzel cells, have been invented by Michael Grätzel in 1991. Grätzel is a chemistry professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and since now they didn’t have any commercial purpose, being developed just for research. The first company who is about to commercialize Grätzel’s cells is G24 Innovations, […]

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Tiny Dead Marine Cells Helping Us Create Better Solar Cells

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:21:01 +0000

Using microscopic creatures as our friends is not a new idea, not it has been used recently. Nowadays, pushed by our green energy needs, we have to find solutions by using and probably killing some of our little friends to make us energy. This phrase sounded like the madhouse, now let's get to the real subject.

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Solar Paint soon to be Marketed as The Cheapest Source of Energy

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:28:50 +0000

Some recent partnership between UK university researchers and Corus Colours, also a UK-based firm, brought to the surface a promise of future commercialization of cheap dye-based solar panels.

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New Type of Much More Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Discovered

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:26:42 +0000

There have already been invented dye-based solar cells, and their efficiency is as high as 75%, but the inorganic material that the dye is made of is instable in outside functioning conditions, and possibly harmful to the environment.

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