{"id":231544,"date":"2026-02-17T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-additive-helps-solar-cells-retain-93-power-conversion-efficiency"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:08:24","slug":"new-additive-helps-solar-cells-retain-93-power-conversion-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-additive-helps-solar-cells-retain-93-power-conversion-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"New additive helps solar cells retain 93% power-conversion efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-additive-helps-solar-cells-retain-93-power-conversion-efficiency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study conducted by Penn State University researchers has revealed that organic solar cells could be strengthened by adding a chemical additive, making them suitable for large-scale deployment and manufacturing. The study was reported on the official university website on February 16.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Nutifafa Doumon and doctoral candidate Souk Yoon \u201cJohn\u201d Kim, both from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, led this experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by Penn State University researchers has revealed that organic solar cells could be strengthened by adding a chemical additive, making them suitable for large-scale deployment and manufacturing. The study was reported on the official university website on February 16. Assistant Professor Nutifafa Doumon and doctoral candidate Souk Yoon \u201cJohn\u201d Kim, both from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231544","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=231544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}