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nanotimes News in Brief

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The research team‘s manufacturing process: a droplet of liquid containing the paintable semiconductor is placed on a slide. Rotating the slide in the horizontal plane causes the droplet to spread out, whence it dries.

© Sargent Lab, University of Toronto

Professor Ted Sargent and his group at the University of Toronto invented spray-on solar paint, taking advantage of pro- perties of nanosized semiconductor crystals in solution which can be sprayed or painted onto a variety of surfaces. This was the first solar cell capable of utilizing invisible, infrared rays emitted by the sun.

http://www.trra.ca/en/sectors/resources/TorontoRegion-SolarEnergyInnovationSnapshotMay2011.pdf