{"id":547579,"date":"2010-04-29T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2010-04-29T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:18:57","slug":"shrinky-dinks-sparks-another-giant-nanostep-forward-for-low-cost-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547579","title":{"rendered":"Shrinky Dinks Sparks Another Giant Nanostep Forward for Low Cost Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9179\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/29\/shrinky-dinks-sparks-another-giant-nanostep-forward-for-low-cost-solar-power\/new-nanofilm-turns-windows-into-solar-panels\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9179\" title=\"new nanofilm turns windows into solar panels\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/new-nanofilm-turns-windows-into-solar-panels.jpg\" alt=\"Shrink Solar LLC is marketing a solar film that can enhance conventional solar panels \" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a>The nanotech company Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. has just announced that it has formed a subsidiary, <a title=\"shrink website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shrinksolar.com\" >Shrink Solar LLC<\/a>, in order to market a solar film that could be used to retrofit windows and other elements of existing buildings to function as mini solar power stations.\u00a0 The technology can also be applied to conventional silicon crystal solar panels to boost efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of relying on mirrors or other <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/21\/we-are-thisclose-to-affordable-concentrating-solar-power-and-more-green-jobs-too\/\" >conventional concentrating solar technology<\/a>, Shrink Solar uses <a title=\"nano.gov website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nano.gov\/\" >nanocrystals<\/a> to soak up parts of the light spectrum that conventional silicon crystal solar panels don&#8217;t absorb.\u00a0 And just imagine, we have that classic children&#8217;s toy from the Disco era,\u00a0 <a title=\"shrinky dinks website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shrinkydinks.com\/\" >Shrinky Dinks,<\/a> to thank for\u00a0 this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/29\/shrinky-dinks-sparks-another-giant-nanostep-forward-for-low-cost-solar-power\/#more-9178\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nanotech company Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. has just announced that it has formed a subsidiary, Shrink Solar LLC, in order to market a solar film that could be used to retrofit windows and other elements of existing buildings to function as mini solar power stations.\u00a0 The technology can also be applied to conventional silicon crystal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547579","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\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}