gratzel 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 Michael Grätzel Receives 800,000 Euros Millennium Technology Prize for Inventing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/michael-gratzel-millennium-technology-prize-20100610/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/michael-gratzel-millennium-technology-prize-20100610/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:35:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7946 Michael Grätzel, one of the world’s most famous scientists and innovators in the field of solar power, has received the best prize any scientist could get in a lifetime, besides the Nobel: The Millennium Technology Prize, weighing 800,000 Euros. The most versatile and promising dye-sensitized solar cells bear his name today, after Grätzel, a respected […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/michael-gratzel-millennium-technology-prize-20100610/feed/ 0 7946 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 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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