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Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Tech From MIT
telomerewhythere writes "Michael Strano and his team at MIT have made a self-assembling and indefinitely repairable photovoltaic cell based on the principle found in chloroplasts inside plant cells. 'The system Strano's team produced is made up of seven different compounds, including the carbon nanotubes, the phospholipids, and the proteins that make up the reaction centers, which under the right conditions spontaneously assemble themselves into a light-harvesting structure that produces an electric current. Strano says he believes this sets a record for the complexity of a self-assembling system. When a surfactant is added to the mix, the seven components all come apart and form a soupy solution. Then, when the researchers removed the surfactant, the compounds spontaneously assembled once again into a perfectly formed, rejuvenated photocell.'"
Just let me know when I can plug my TV directly into my ficus.
It was amazing how early mine started using decorators.
"Ficus Benjimina" - latin for "tree that dies in your house"
Sir, your code is clearly wrong. That's what my compiler has to say about it:
phospholipid.c:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
phospholipid.c:1: error: expected expression before ‘;’ token
Where can I post a bug report?