Good news, everyone! Researchers have developed a paint that, when applied to a transparent conducting medium, had an energy efficiency of one percent! And it’s a lovely light brown color, just like my [feces joke removed for taste concerns. Good God, Seitz, you’re disgusting! — Ed.].
OK, OK, we’ll stop with the Professor Farnsworth jokes, and tell you how it was made. Researchers at Notre Dame coated nanoparticles of titanium oxide with either cadmium selenide or cadmium sulfide. Suspend the particles in water and you get a paste. Apply the paste to something that’s clear and conducts and you’ve got…well, kind of a crappy solar panel, with a 1% efficiency, but it’s a start.
Now if it would just not look like a [That’s it, Seitz, it’s the cricket bat for you! — Ed.]
[ via the painterly types at Gizmag ]