Researchers from Yale University Laboratory, NASA, Princeton University and Lincoln University have discovered the most common type of phytoplankton can optimise photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. The research was published in Nature Communications on June 26, 2016.
Researchers from Yale University Laboratory, NASA, Princeton University and Lincoln University have discovered the most common type of phytoplankton can optimise photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. In a report in the journal Organic Electronics, the team revealed how fossilised diatoms, which have evolved over billions of years to optimise light absorption, reduced the amount of rare and costly materials required to make the active layer of a PV cell more efficient.