University of southern California researchers indicate us a more
efficient use of graphene photovoltaicsAugust 2nd, 2010 Is it
possible to imagine people powering their cellular phone or
music/video device while jogging on a sunny day? A University of
Southern California team has produced flexible transparent
carbon atom films that may have great potential for a brand new
variety of solar cells. In a paper recently published by the
journal ACS Nano, researchers stated that organic photovoltaic
(OPV) cells have been proposed as a technique to achieve low
priced energy due to their ease of manufacture, light weight,
and compatibility with flexible substrates. The new work shows
that graphene, an extremely conductive and highly transparent
kind of carbon made up of atoms-thick sheets of carbon atoms,
has high possibility to fill this role. While graphene’s
existence has been known for many years, it has only been
studied extensively since 2004 because of the impracticality of
manufacturing it in high quality and