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Nanoparticle solar cells make light work

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Cheap, printable photovoltaics might finally live up to their early promise.

A type of solar cell first discovered 20 years ago could finally become commercially viable thanks to improvements reported in Science today1. This alternative design could lead to cheap, printable cells that would massively boost the worldwide use of solar power.

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  1. Yella, A. et al. Science 334, 629-634 (2011).

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  1. Philip Ball
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Ball, P. Nanoparticle solar cells make light work. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.628

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