{"id":152653,"date":"2022-12-12T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-mit-engineers-develop-paper-thin-solar-cells-that-can-power-any-surface"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:27:23","slug":"video-mit-engineers-develop-paper-thin-solar-cells-that-can-power-any-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-mit-engineers-develop-paper-thin-solar-cells-that-can-power-any-surface","title":{"rendered":"Video: MIT engineers develop paper-thin solar cells that can power any surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TS9ADU0oc50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ultralight solar cells are made of semiconducting inks using printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>A group of engineers at MIT have developed a rather interesting solution to be deployed in remote locations or for assistance in emergencies: solar cells made of ultralight fabric that can turn any surface into a power source.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in Small Methods.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Melanie Gonick, MIT<\/p>\n<p>Thinner than human hair, the durable, flexible solar cells are stuck on a strong, lightweight fabric that makes them very easy to affix to a surface, just like a sticker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-mit-engineers-develop-paper-thin-solar-cells-that-can-power-any-surface\">Continue reading \u201cVideo: MIT engineers develop paper-thin solar cells that can power any surface\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultralight solar cells are made of semiconducting inks using printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing. A group of engineers at MIT have developed a rather interesting solution to be deployed in remote locations or for assistance in emergencies: solar cells made of ultralight fabric that can turn any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152653","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\/152653","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}