University of Southern California researchers have successfully developed a very flexible transparent film of carbon atoms in materials, and use it to create organic photovoltaic cells. The researchers said that this widely used carbon materials, such as curtains and is expected to produce solar power on their own clothes.
Researchers in the new one academic journal, “Nano-American Chemical Society,” the report said the new material, called graphene, by a layer of conductive carbon atoms excellent thickness of a few atoms, it is made with of graphene can be the organic photovoltaic cells convert light into electrical energy. Currently, researchers have been able to make graphene a variety of sizes, the largest of which is 150 square centimeters.
However, this graphene organic photoelectric conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cells is less than the silicon solar cell. Per square meter of solar silicon solar cell can light 1000 watts into 14 watts of power, while the same area of graphene can only be transformed into organic photovoltaic cells out of 1.4 watts of power. Graphene low cost organic photovoltaic cells, ThinkPad T60 battery and good flexibility, so application prospects.
Lewis Dee Ke participated in the study, for example, new materials can be made into household curtains, and even made clothes will be generating. By that time, people can wear such clothes jogging in the sun, while charging the mobile phone or audio-visual equipment ThinkPad T40 battery .