Scientists Develop Inexpensive, Printable, Paint-On Solar Cells

With the ever advancing technological discoveries that our world boasts and advances in every day comes a new-development which could prove to be revolutionary.

Scientists and researchers at the Institute of technology at New Jersey have created a new form of Solar Cell that can be printed or painted onto flexible plastic sheets.

Lead researcher Somenath Mitra exclaimed that we’ll all soon be printing our own “sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers.” Unlike every-day silicon cells that are used in Solar Panels that we see today, the print-on cells are composed of carbon nanotubes, which are much less expensive.

Will this concept of production for energy will become as commercial as the Institute hopes? I just don’t see it.

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