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New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color of the Rainbow

October 16, 2008

Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and it generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues combined electrically conductive plastic with metals, including molybdenum and titanium, to create the hybrid material. Full Story

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