#7: WEARABLE SOLAR CELLS
Chinese researchers at Fudan University have developed a new technology that can turn our clothes into walking solar batteries. The ‘solar cell fabric’ has already been used to power an LED light.
Thread-like solar cells that can be woven into textiles aren’t a new idea, but previous versions were inflexible and costly to produce.
Instead of making wire-shaped cells, researchers decided to stack the components, layering a titanium electrode filled with light-absorbing dye over a carbon nanotube counter electrode.
The new wearable solar captures incident light at multiple angles and works well when bent, allowing them to be easily integrated into knit fabrics.
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