WFU gives solar cells an energy boost

"Researchers at Wake Forest University have increased the efficiency of plastic solar cells to more than 6 percent, double the previous standard of 3 percent.

The plastic solar cells could make it easier - and cheaper - for consumers to use solar energy for heat and electricity, they said.

“Six percent is a big number,” said David Carroll, the director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at WFU. “You’ve now got a device that’s good enough to start thinking about a commercial product.”"
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