DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OrganicPhotovoltaics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganicPhotovoltaics</span></a>: the path to lightweight, flexible and transparent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarCells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarCells</span></a></p><p>Researchers at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HiroshimaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiroshimaUniversity</span></a> are creating organic photovoltaics that are sustainable and offer many benefits over traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/silicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silicon</span></a>-based solar panels.</p><p>"Itaru Osaka’s story with organic photovoltaics began as a PhD student working in the research group of Hideki Shirakawa at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. In the 1970s, Shirakawa, along with American scientists Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, found a way to make plastics that can conduct electricity — a discovery that won them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.</p><p>"These days Osaka has his own research group at Hiroshima University that is working with these ‘conjugated polymers’ to make carbon-based, ‘organic’ photovoltaic cells. In contrast to typical silicon-based cells, which are relatively bulky, heavy, rigid and opaque, the organic alternatives are flexible and transparent enough to be placed where existing cells cannot, such as on the walls of buildings, the glass of greenhouses and even on the sides of tents.</p><p>"Significantly, their fabrication is expected to be cheaper and consume less energy than silicon-based photovoltaics." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00224-9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d42473-022</span><span class="invisible">-00224-9</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarCells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarCells</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a></p>