Mark C. Hersam Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:54:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Transparent Solar Cells Made Cheap, Efficient and Flexible With Carbon Nanotubes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/transparent-solar-cells-carbon-nanotube-20111006/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/transparent-solar-cells-carbon-nanotube-20111006/#respond Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:54:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20660 A new discovery coming the Northwestern University could make solar cells embeddable in clothes and various fabrics. It involves changing tin, an important element of solar cells, with carbon nanotubes, considered more flexible and efficient. For a solar cell to be transparent and still function, it has to have several layers, of which a transparent […]

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