Bright Style With Bio-Solar Wallpaper

Living Solar Panels Printed On Wallpaper Harvest Sun's Energy By Photosynthesis

Anthony Cuthbertson, November 6, 2017 (Newsweek)

“…[A bio-solar panel uses photosynthesis by a micro-organism called cyanobacteria to harvest energy from sunlight and] could lead to next-generation electrical devices that can be made on a home printer…[They can be printed with cyanobacteria-ink] onto paper alongside electrically conductive carbon nanotubes using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer…[Potential applications] include paper-based diabetes monitors and air quality sensors that resemble wallpaper…The solar bio-battery is part of a new type of renewable energy research known as microbial biophotovoltaics (BPV), which make use of cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic algae to convert light into electricity…Using an off-the-shelf inkjet printer significantly reduces the cost of producing BPVs and makes scaling up the technology much easier…The research follows a recent breakthrough in see-through solar cell technology that could see windows, cell phones and other objects with a transparent surface transformed into solar panels…” click here for more

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