Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Cells

dhj writes "MIT scientists have developed a self-assembling photovoltaic cell in a petri dish. Phospholipids (think cell membranes) form disks which act as the structural support for light responsive molecules. Carbon nanotubes help to align the disks and conduct electricity generated by the system with 40% efficiency. The assembly process is reversible using surfactants to break up the phospholipids. When filters are used to remove the surfactants the system reassembles with no loss of efficiency even over multiple assembly/disassembly cycles. The results were published September 5th in Nature Chemistry."

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Re:Like this story from before?

[Required Snark]

Yes. The story was disassembled into it's component letters and then reassembled to harvest more Slashdot trolls. Recycling at it's most efficient.

Re:Like this story from before?

[beakerMeep]

To be fair, the article on MIT's site is dated "September 7, 2010."

Naturally the only logical conclusion for the dupe is that MIT News hired some Slashdot editors.

Re:Like this story from before?

[snookerhog]

it starts with self assembling Slashdot entries. Before you know it, the self assembling photovoltaic overlords are installing themselves on your roof.

Re:Like this story from before?

[Genda]

Go ahead, mock Slashdot!!! Do you have any idea just how much it costs to bring a story from 09/19/2010 through a wormhole to 09/07/2010??? You should be getting down on your knees and thanking your robotic overlords that Slashdot spares no expense (not even space and time) to get you the latest news!

Re:Like this story from before?

[el3mentary]

Dude...you need to get out more.

Another recycled story?

[WSOGMM]

Ok, it's our job to recycle the conversation. I'll start with the first comment from the last article (but recycled into a new comment): Call me when I can pick it up at Lowe's.

Re:Another recycled story?

[suomynonAyletamitlU]

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Would it kill you to organize your recycling? You don't even have to alphabetize it, just separate the vowels and consonants from the garbage, to make our lives easier. And we don't recycle y's, either, you can just throw those away.

Re:Like this story from before?

[Anonymous Coward]

The exce'ss apostrophe's are their on porpoise. They have been found to attract troll's more affectively.

Re:Oh joy. *Another* photovoltaic breakthrough

[JWSmythe]

Ditto.

    Anyone can make any sort of wild "forward looking statement". I may have designed a zero emissions perpetual motion power generator. If I can get enough hits to my site, and persuade enough investors, I'll make a fortune!

    Come visit my site today! We'll all be rich!

    I'm still waiting for flying cars, obediant robots to clean the house, distant places to live or visit, green energy, world peace, and a few other things. World of tomorrow my ass. When I was a kid, they kept telling us about how by the year 2000 everything would be so different. Ya. I have gray hair, no flying car, and moon weekend home. Tell your grandchildren that all the lies of things coming in the year 2100 are lies! Lies! The cake is a lie!

    ({snicker})

Re:Like this story from before?

[causality]

To be fair, the article on MIT's site is dated "September 7, 2010." Naturally the only logical conclusion for the dupe is that MIT News hired some Slashdot editors.

That's not possible. The grammar of MIT's articles is far too good. It doesn't contain spelling errors that a basic spellchecker would have fixed. It doesn't have links to stories that are behind a paywall when freely accessible ones are also available. It doesn't needlessly link to someone's blog when articles a bit closer to the primary source are readily available. If it has the occasional blatant factual error that the slightest and most basic fact-checking would have corrected, this remains to be demonstrated.

To reiterate, there's no possibility that MIT News has hired some Slashdot editors. They probably list "ability and willingness to run a quick automated spellchecker" and "familiarity with English grammar" as requirements for their editors. They have little incentive to engage in the other practices I listed.

Incidentally, it's not an instance of a "grammar nazi" when you expect paid professionals who call themselves "editors" to either correctly and consistently use basic spelling and grammar or, failing that, call themselves something other than "editors." Maybe "reposters" would be a good title. The standard and the expectations are higher for "editors" who draw a wage. It's not the same situation as the Slashdot users who post for leisure and are nit-picked over issues of grammar.

Re:Like this story from before?

[derGoldstein]

Last time Slashdot recycled a story was on the 10th.
If this is what's going to happen from now on, then I'lll start recycling my posts:

"Slashdot has become so big that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and neither hand actually READS Slashdot..."
(originally posted on Friday September 10, @04:20AM)