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Cheap Spray-on Plastic Solar Cells Coming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-isn't-that-special dept.

coyote1 writes "The Sacramento Bee reports about custom-tailored molecules and spray-on plastic could someday create the next generation of solar cells -- more flexible, more efficient and much less expensive than existing sources of solar power. Nanotechnology is used to organize the molecules that are sprayed onto a surface."

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  1. Yesterday's news by blamanj · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=58 5&u=/nm/20020328/sc_nm/science_solar_dc_2

    Whine:* 2002-03-28 22:53:09 Paint-on solar cells (articles,news) (rejected)

  2. Re:Partly Organic? by Yobgod+Ababua · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the context of chemistry and materials, organic refers to a material based on carbon (an element abbreviated as C). Additional elements that are commonly found in organic materials are hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S).

    So... if the plastic is carbon (or hydrocarbon) based, it's organic. Note that this definition of organic has nothing to do with the one used to refer to naturally grown produce.