{"id":493943,"date":"2010-03-31T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2293"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:56:30","slug":"plastic-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/493943","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Solar Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Princeton researchers see role for plastic electronics to reduce cost of solar cells in future.  &#8230;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;   &quot;By allowing plastic solar cells to be manufactured using low-cost printing techniques and by replacing ITO as the primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/images\/news\/2010\/03\/D51003_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" vspace=\"12\" hspace=\"12\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" title=\"Princeton research has solar energy impact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/images\/news\/2010\/03\/D51003_web.jpg\" \/><\/a>conducting material, the plastics the team developed hold potential for lowering the cost of solar panels.  Currently, the electricity generated by plastic solar cells is collected by a transparent metal conductor made of ITO. The conductor must be transparent so that sunlight can pass through it to the materials in solar cells that absorb the light energy. &quot;   &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Via Princeton University: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S26\/98\/90O30\/index.xml?section=topstories\">Plastic electronics integrated into solar panels<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton researchers see role for plastic electronics to reduce cost of solar cells in future. &#8230; &#8230; &quot;By allowing plastic solar cells to be manufactured using low-cost printing techniques and by replacing ITO as the primary conducting material, the plastics the team developed hold potential for lowering the cost of solar panels. Currently, the electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}