Spray-On Solar

New material may make 'spray-on' solar power a reality

Chisaki Watanabe Bloomberg, March 26, 2017 (St. Louis Posty-Dispatch)

“…[R]esearchers and company executives think there's a good chance the economics of the $42 billion [solar] industry will soon be disrupted by something called perovskites, a range of materials that can be used to harvest light when turned into a crystalline structure…[allowing a future when solar cells can be sprayed or printed onto the windows of skyscrapers or atop sports utility vehicles — and at prices potentially far cheaper than today's silicon-based panels]…The hope is that perovskites, which can be mixed into liquid solutions and deposited on a range of surfaces, could play a crucial role in the expansion of solar energy applications with cells as efficient as those currently made with silicon. One British company aims to have a thin-film perovskite solar cell commercially available by the end of 2018…[and] solar panel makers and top universities in Europe, the U.S. and Asia are racing to commercialize the technology…” click here for more

click to enlarge

Tweet