Episode 24 - Desirably defective
Episode 24 of the Never Lick the Spoon podcast, hosted by Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, titled "Episode 24 - Desirably defective" was published on March 17, 2023 and runs 17 minutes.
March 17, 2023 ·17m · Never Lick the Spoon
Summary
Silicon-based solar panels are four times as efficient as plants at harvesting energy from sunlight. But they're expensive to produce because the material they're made of has to be very precisely engineered. What if we could make solar panels out of copper oxides, where the imperfections in the material are what makes them effective? I talk to two researchers who used a supercomputer to discover this. The research we're discussing is published here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c16889
Episode Description
Silicon-based solar panels are four times as efficient as plants at harvesting energy from sunlight. But they're expensive to produce because the material they're made of has to be very precisely engineered. What if we could make solar panels out of copper oxides, where the imperfections in the material are what makes them effective? I talk to two researchers who used a supercomputer to discover this.
The research we're discussing is published here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c16889
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