spray on solar cell Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:33:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Energy Technology's Spray-On Solar Cells Applied on Flexible Plastic Material https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-energy-technolog-spray-solar-cell-plastic-20110803/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-energy-technolog-spray-solar-cell-plastic-20110803/#respond Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:33:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19955 Last year, a company called New Energy Technology announced that they had succeeded making a photovoltaic substance that, applied on clear glass, could generate electricity. Now, they are announcing the same innovation being available for flexible plastic materials.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-energy-technolog-spray-solar-cell-plastic-20110803/feed/ 0 19955 A New Step Taken Towards Spray-On Solar Cells and Self-Powered e-readers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spray-on-solar-cell-e-reader-20100922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spray-on-solar-cell-e-reader-20100922/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:08:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10588 University of Florida researchers have invented spray-on polymers that can reflect or transmit any color, and can be applied to glass or plastics as well. "That's what this newest paper is about, but we've also developed polymer coatings for all the other colors of the spectrum," said John Reynolds, a scientist at the University of Florida who led a team that developed the clear-to-black polymers.

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