{"id":184846,"date":"2024-03-10T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/researchers-make-breakthrough-in-solar-technology-with-stretchable-panels-that-act-like-rubber-heres-why-its-significant"},"modified":"2024-03-10T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:24:01","slug":"researchers-make-breakthrough-in-solar-technology-with-stretchable-panels-that-act-like-rubber-heres-why-its-significant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/researchers-make-breakthrough-in-solar-technology-with-stretchable-panels-that-act-like-rubber-heres-why-its-significant","title":{"rendered":"Researchers make breakthrough in solar technology with \u2018stretchable\u2019 panels that act like rubber \u2014 here\u2019s why it\u2019s significant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-make-breakthrough-in-solar-technology-with-stretchable-panels-that-act-like-rubber-heres-why-its-significant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An innovative, flexible solar cell being developed in South Korea has passed a crucial stress test.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science &amp; Technology (KAIST) are working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2024\/01\/240104122016.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rubber-like<\/a> sun-catcher made from organic materials. The idea is for these elastic cells to one day help power the wearable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"71\" title=\"Green tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> that is becoming more prevalent in society, per a KAIST research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaist.ac.kr\/newsen\/html\/news\/?mode=V&mng_no=34090&skey=keyword&sval=Solar+Cell&list_s_date=&list_e_date=&GotoPage=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this research, we not only developed the world\u2019s best performing stretchable organic solar cell, but it is also significant that we developed a new polymer that can be applicable as a base material for various electronic devices that needs to be malleable and\/or elastic,\u201d study lead Professor Bumjoon Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaist.ac.kr\/newsen\/html\/news\/?mode=V&mng_no=34090&skey=keyword&sval=Solar+Cell&list_s_date=&list_e_date=&GotoPage=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in the summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative, flexible solar cell being developed in South Korea has passed a crucial stress test. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science &amp; Technology (KAIST) are working on a rubber-like sun-catcher made from organic materials. The idea is for these elastic cells to one day help power the wearable technology that is becoming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184846","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}