{"id":118766,"date":"2021-01-22T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/materials-breakthrough-could-lead-to-cheaper-better-solar-panels"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:23:41","slug":"materials-breakthrough-could-lead-to-cheaper-better-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/materials-breakthrough-could-lead-to-cheaper-better-solar-panels","title":{"rendered":"Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, Better Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/materials-breakthrough-could-lead-to-cheaper-better-solar-panels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first study to use pressure to control this stability, and it really opens up a lot of possibilities,\u201d Yu Lin, researcher at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-rock-star-material-stable-solar-cells.html\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we\u2019ve found this optimal way to prepare the material, there\u2019s potential for scaling it up for industrial production, and for using this same approach to manipulate other perovskite phases,\u201d Lin added.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cblack\u201d phase, the one successfully stabilized by the scientists, of perovskite has intrigued scientists for years since it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrf.eu\/home\/news\/general\/content-news\/general\/going-black-to-see-the-light-making-stable-perovskites-for-solar-cells.html\">has been found<\/a> to be extremely efficient in converting sunlight to electricity, making it the Holy Grail for solar panel technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is the first study to use pressure to control this stability, and it really opens up a lot of possibilities,\u201d Yu Lin, researcher at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), said in a statement. \u201cNow that we\u2019ve found this optimal way to prepare the material, there\u2019s potential for scaling it up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118766","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\/118766","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=118766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}