{"id":109458,"date":"2020-07-02T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-transparent-graphene-electrodes-could-aid-solar-cell-generation"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:25:36","slug":"how-transparent-graphene-electrodes-could-aid-solar-cell-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-transparent-graphene-electrodes-could-aid-solar-cell-generation","title":{"rendered":"How Transparent Graphene Electrodes Could Aid Solar Cell Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-transparent-graphene-electrodes-could-aid-solar-cell-generation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new technique of manufacturing graphene could revolutionize solar power by enabling the creation of ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A novel technique developed by researchers at the Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) that allows for the creation of large sheets of graphene \u2014 a layer of single carbon atoms extracted from graphite \u2014 could have a significant impact on the development of future electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the development could give a significant boost to the field of solar power where graphene is used as a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) in the creation of electrodes. The resultant transparent and light electrodes can bend up to 78 \u2070 \u2014 much more flexible than traditional ITO electrodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique of manufacturing graphene could revolutionize solar power by enabling the creation of ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels. A novel technique developed by researchers at the Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) that allows for the creation of large sheets of graphene \u2014 a layer of single carbon atoms extracted from graphite \u2014 could have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109458","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}