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The Paint That Can Turn Any Surface into a Solar Cell


Carbon, the infamous villain of global warming, could also hold the key to a green energy revolution

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The Paint That Can Turn Any Surface into a Solar Cell
Carbon, the infamous villain of global warming, could also hold the key to a green energy revolution



Dwight Seferos is a Seattle Washington native and attended Western Washington University, completing a B.S. degree in 2001. He entered graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he worked under the supervision of Guillermo Bazan on the synthesis and study of organic molecules with delocalized pi-electron systems. After completing a Ph.D. in 2006, Seferos moved to Northwestern University where he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow with Chad Mirkin. In 2009, Seferos began his independent laboratory in the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto where he and his highly talented team of students and postdoctoral fellows study the optical and electronic properties of semiconducting polymers and nanomaterials. He has authored or coauthored over 70 publications and has more than 15 patents and patent applications. Since beginning his independent career he has been recognized with a DuPont Young Professor Grant (2011), Ontario Early Research Award (2011), Canada Research Chair (2012), and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2013)


Solar Paint



With the world in the middle of an energy crisis we are constantly looking for new ways of harvesting renewable energy. Well, Professor Paul Dastoor and his team at the University of Newcastle have developed a solar paint, and we talked to him to find out more!


David Waldeck - Solar Paint


Nanocrystal-based dyads for solar to electric energy conversion
Dave is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. His research program uses methods of spectroscopy, electro- chemistry, and microscopy to investigate primary processes in the condensed phase which includes liquids, solids, and liquid/solid interfaces. Current themes of his research are focused on the understanding of electron transfer reactions, electron transport in supramolecular structures, and nanophotonics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, was a visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute, and is recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award. Dave earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, his Ph.D., also in Chemistry, from the University of Chicago, and was post doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.


Spray-on Solar Panels - Science Nation

Solar paint could provide endless clean energy. || Future's major energy source

How do you power your home? Most of us have wires running from a power station somewhere. Some have solar panels. Maybe some of you have a windmill or a really muscular hamster that spins a wheel attached to a generator. But in the future, unlimited power may be as simple as applying a fresh coat of paint to your house. It may sound like a fantasy, but a team of Scientists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia are well on their way to making it a reality.

This solar paint allows your house to generate clean energy


Public Lecture | Paint-On Solar Cells: How the Magic Happens



Solar power is a clean and renewable source of energy, but it has struggled to compete with fossil fuels on cost. Most solar cells, which absorb sunlight and produce electrical energy, are built from silicon. SLAC’s Kevin Stone is exploring a new class of materials for solar cells. Like silicon, these materials are crystals; but unlike silicon, they are formed by gently heating and drying from solution at low temperatures. In essence, they can be painted on, either on light, flexible backing or on conventional silicon cells as a way to improve the silicon cell’s efficiency. These crystals have a complex structure that seems to organize itself spontaneously as the solution is converted to a solid. Using advanced tools at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stone has been able to watch these crystals assemble at the atomic level and gain clues to the forces that guide this process. By understanding this fascinating chemical mystery, scientists will also gain insights needed to design more effective and economical solar cells.




About the speaker:

Kevin Stone is a staff scientist at SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. He studied physics at UC Berkeley and received his PhD in physics from Stony Brook University in 2009. His graduate research was conducted at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked on solving the structure of crystalline materials from powder diffraction data. After graduating, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory studying materials using resonant soft X-ray scattering. In 2013 he moved to SLAC, where he uses X-ray scattering to study a number of energy-related materials and systems.

Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapour


Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen – the cleanest source of energy.

The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and electronics fresh and dry.

But unlike silica gel, the new material, synthetic molybdenum-sulphide, also acts as a semi-conductor and catalyses the splitting of water atoms into hydrogen and oxygen.

The RMIT researchers found that mixing the compound with titanium oxide particles leads to a sunlight-absorbing paint that produces hydrogen fuel from solar energy and moist air.

Titanium oxide is the white pigment that is already commonly used in wall paint, meaning that the simple addition of the new material can convert a brick wall into energy harvesting and fuel production real estate.

There’s no need for clean or filtered water to feed the system. Any place that has water vapour in the air, even remote areas far from water, can produce fuel.

Hydrogen was the cleanest source of energy and could be used in fuel cells as well as conventional combustion engines as an alternative to fossil fuels.

This system can also be used in very dry but hot climates near oceans. The sea water is evaporated by the hot sunlight and the vapour can then be absorbed to produce fuel.
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