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Key hurdle overcome towards organic solar cells up to 1000 times cheaper...
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAn organic solar cell testing inside the Randall Lab. University of Michigan researchers have found a way to coax electrons to travel much further than was previously thought possible in the materials often used for organic solar cells and other organic semiconductors. Image credit: Robert Coelius, Michigan Engineering
Unlike the inorganic solar cells widely used today, organics can be made of inexpensive, flexible carbon-based materials like plastic. Manufacturers could churn out rolls of them in a variety of colors and configurations, to be laminated unobtrusively into almost any surface.