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Tiny solar cells fix themselves

BBC News - Sun 5 Sep 10

A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.

Researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself

Phys.org - Sun 5 Sep 10

Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now ...

MIT Scientists Harvest Sunlight, Laboratory Equipment - Tue 7 Sep 10
New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself, R&D Mag - Tue 7 Sep 10
Featured - Researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself, Labspaces.net - Mon 6 Sep 10
Technology Advancement for Silicon-Based Photovoltaic Cells, R&D Mag - Mon 6 Sep 10
Novel Electricity Generating System Based on Nanocomponents, AZoNano - Mon 6 Sep 10

MIT creates self-repairing solar cells

TG Daily - Mon 6 Sep 10

MIT rsearchers have created tiny solar cells that can repair themselves after damage from the sunlight they're designed to process.    read more

MIT's Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells

Popular Science - Thu 2 Sep 10

MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert ...

MIT scientists create self-assembling solar cell

Science a Go Go - Mon 6 Sep 10

One of the problems with common photovoltaic cells is that the sun's rays can be highly destructive to the materials used in the cell, leading to a gradual degradation of its performance. But ...

New self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself

Nano Tech Wire - Mon 6 Sep 10

Molecules can turn sunlight into electricity and can be broken down and quickly reassembled

New self-assembling photovoltaic technology repairs itself

ScienceDaily - Sun 5 Sep 10

Scientists have created a novel set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity; the molecules can be repeatedly broken down and then reassembled quickly, just by adding ...

MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself

R&D Mag - Sun 5 Sep 10

MIT scientists have created a novel set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity; the molecules can be repeatedly broken down and then reassembled quickly, just by ...

MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself, e! Science News - Sun 5 Sep 10
MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself, Science Blog - Sun 5 Sep 10
MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself, Eurekalert - Sun 5 Sep 10