nanocoating Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:59:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Bumpy Nanoparticle Treatment of Solar Cells Making Them More Efficient https://www.greenoptimistic.com/yi-cui-solar-cell-coating-20100726/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/yi-cui-solar-cell-coating-20100726/#respond Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:59:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8701 Yi Cui, a researcher from Stanford University, about whom we've been talking about many times lately, has discovered how nanoscale wires, pores, bumps and other material textures can improve the performance of solar cells dramatically. They could even serve as self-cleaning coatings, because of their highly hydrophobic properties.

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