{"id":106101,"date":"2020-04-26T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/research-a-solar-window-will-soon-do-the-same-job-as-a-standard-rooftop-solar-panel"},"modified":"2020-04-26T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:06:40","slug":"research-a-solar-window-will-soon-do-the-same-job-as-a-standard-rooftop-solar-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/research-a-solar-window-will-soon-do-the-same-job-as-a-standard-rooftop-solar-panel","title":{"rendered":"Research: A solar window will soon do the same job as a standard rooftop solar panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-a-solar-window-will-soon-do-the-same-job-as-a-standard-rooftop-solar-panel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semi-transparent solar cells that can be incorporated into window glass are a \u201cgame-changer\u201d that could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity generation, Australian scientists say in a paper in Nano Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u2014led by Professor Jacek Jasieniak from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (Exciton Science) and Monash University\u2014have succeeded in producing next-gen perovskite solar cells that generate electricity while allowing light to pass through. They are now investigating how the new technology could be built into commercial products with Viridian Glass, Australia\u2019s largest glass manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>This technology will transform windows into active power generators, potentially revolutionizing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/building+design\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">building design<\/a>. Two square meters of solar <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/window\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">window<\/a>, the researchers say, will generate about as much electricity as a standard rooftop solar panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-transparent solar cells that can be incorporated into window glass are a \u201cgame-changer\u201d that could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity generation, Australian scientists say in a paper in Nano Energy. The researchers\u2014led by Professor Jacek Jasieniak from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (Exciton Science) and Monash University\u2014have succeeded in producing next-gen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}