oil water assembly Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:44:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Self-Assembling Silicon Solar Cells Could Make Cheap & Flexible Panels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/self-assembling-solar-cells-20100115/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/self-assembling-solar-cells-20100115/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:44:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6290 Silicon solar cells recently lost some field because of the invention of other types of flexible, but not so efficient solar cells. Still, silicon cells have another word to say, as two University of Minnesota researchers, J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs discovered a basic, low-tech method of making micrometric solar cells self-assemble onto anything, including flexible surfaces.

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