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Solar power heads in a new direction: Thinner

2013-06-26 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now MIT researchers are opening another avenue for improvement, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible. Such panels, which have the potential to surpass any substance other than reactor-grade uranium in terms of energy produced per pound of material, could be made from stacked sheets of one-molecule-thick materials...

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