Pour-In-Place Solar Cells

ianchaos writes: "According to an article in New Scientist, solar cells that 'self assemble' from a liquid have been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge. The breakthrough could make it cheap and easy to cover large areas, like roofs, with efficient, ultra-thin solar cell coatings. Now they just need to try coating clothes with the stuff to make the wearables more viable."

Comments

Can't be 34% efficient

[btempleton]

They said that they needed to work to improve the efficiency to make it viable, and that is simply not something that would be true if it were 34%. There's very little improvement even possible at that level of efficiency.

However, cells that can be poured on and installed locally would be a huge boon if they can make that work.