Plastic solar cells

Scientists at Princeton University in the US have successfully developed a new type of transmission plastic to replace traditional solar cell material with low cost, which is impossible.

By addressing a number of technological barriers to the production of plastics that enable light to pass through, can be laminated and produce electricity, researchers have opened up a wider door to use. Use of materials in electrical equipment.

What helps to reduce global warming as well as overloading energy needs, when plastics are a substitute material is much lower than today's solar panels. Oxide (ITO).

This type of transmission plastic will revolutionize the electricity generation industry from solar cells

"Transmission polymers (plastics) have been developed long ago, but turning them into a useful device to produce electricity was previously unprecedented , " said research leader Yueh Lin Loo.

Scientists have discovered that the properties of polymer frames are fixed, durable forms that prevent electric current from flowing through them, so the plastic cannot conduct electricity. Therefore, they have come up with a plan to loosen the plastic structure by adding an acid to the material.

Previously, this method was used to produce plastic transistors - an important component of electronic circuits used to amplify and redirect electrical signals.

This new technology also reduces the demand for ITO and the process of polluting them.