Website review: Solar-power paint lets you generate...
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•2 reviews since Mar 7, 2008
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NaturalMystik rated 4 months ago- From the page: "A lick of solar-power paint could see the roofs and walls of warehouses and other buildings generate electricity from the sun, if research by UK researchers pays off. The scientists are developing a way to paint solar cells onto the steel sheets commonly used to clad large buildings. Steel sheets are painted rapidly in steel mills by passing them through rollers. A consortium led by Swansea University, UK, hopes to use that process to cover steel sheets with a photovoltaic paint at up to 40 square metres per minute. The paint will be based on dye-sensitised solar cells. Instead of absorbing sunlight using silicon like conventional solar panels, they use dye molecules attached to particles of the titanium dioxide pigment used in paints. That gives an energy boost to electrons, which hop from the dye into a layer of electrolyte. This then transfers the extra energy into a collecting circuit, before the electrons cycle back to the dye."
- parvez rated 5 months ago
- Dr Dave Worsley (right) and Dr Trystan Watson of Swansea University, investigating the efficiency of new solar cells. This is interesting Tata's are at the forefront again!
