{"id":222412,"date":"2025-09-24T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/piecing-together-the-puzzle-of-future-solar-cell-materials"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:13:52","slug":"piecing-together-the-puzzle-of-future-solar-cell-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/piecing-together-the-puzzle-of-future-solar-cell-materials","title":{"rendered":"Piecing together the puzzle of future solar cell materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/piecing-together-the-puzzle-of-future-solar-cell-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global electricity use is increasing rapidly and must be addressed sustainably. Developing new materials could give us much more efficient solar cell materials than at present; materials so thin and flexible that they could encase anything from mobile phones or entire buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Using computer simulation and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/machine+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning<\/a>, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now taken an important step toward understanding and handling halide perovskites, among the most promising but notoriously enigmatic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity use is constantly increasing globally and, according to the International Energy Agency, its proportion of the world\u2019s total energy consumption is expected to exceed 50% in 25 years, compared to the current 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global electricity use is increasing rapidly and must be addressed sustainably. Developing new materials could give us much more efficient solar cell materials than at present; materials so thin and flexible that they could encase anything from mobile phones or entire buildings. Using computer simulation and machine learning, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222412","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}