{"id":229958,"date":"2026-01-28T01:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/molecular-seal-strengthens-perovskite-solar-cells-while-pushing-efficiency-to-26-6"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:24:33","slug":"molecular-seal-strengthens-perovskite-solar-cells-while-pushing-efficiency-to-26-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/molecular-seal-strengthens-perovskite-solar-cells-while-pushing-efficiency-to-26-6","title":{"rendered":"Molecular seal strengthens perovskite solar cells, while pushing efficiency to 26.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-seal-strengthens-perovskite-solar-cells-while-pushing-efficiency-to-26-62.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are known for their impressive ability to convert sunlight into energy, their low production costs and their lightweight design. They may well be the rising stars of renewable energy, but they are not yet as common as traditional solar panels. PSCs are also notoriously fragile and can break when heated during manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>But these problems could soon be a thing of the past. For their study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aea8228\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, a team from Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University in China has developed a new method that protects the cells from damage during fabrication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are known for their impressive ability to convert sunlight into energy, their low production costs and their lightweight design. They may well be the rising stars of renewable energy, but they are not yet as common as traditional solar panels. PSCs are also notoriously fragile and can break when heated during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229958","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\/229958","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}