An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at
the University of Kansas has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic
cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically
drop the costs of PV technology in the future.
“We actually broke the all-carbon PV efficiency record,”
said Shenqiang Ren, assistant professor of chemistry at KU, who spearheaded the
research with colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Carbon
nanotube-based solar cells, in the past, averaged less than 1 percent in
efficiency.
journal reference (full text free): acs Nano >>