{"id":24986,"date":"2016-04-25T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/flipping-a-chemical-switch-helps-perovskite-solar-cells-beat-the-heat"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:12:26","slug":"flipping-a-chemical-switch-helps-perovskite-solar-cells-beat-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/flipping-a-chemical-switch-helps-perovskite-solar-cells-beat-the-heat","title":{"rendered":"Flipping a chemical switch helps perovskite solar cells beat the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flipping-a-chemical-switch-helps-perovskite-solar-cells-beat-the-heat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thin films of crystalline materials called perovskites provide a promising new way of making inexpensive and efficient solar cells. Now, an international team of researchers has shown a way of flipping a chemical switch that converts one type of perovskite into another\u2014a type that has better thermal stability and is a better light absorber.<\/p>\n<p>The study, by researchers from Brown University, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology published in the <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, could be one more step toward bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/perovskite+solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">perovskite solar cells<\/a> to the mass market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve demonstrated a new procedure for making solar cells that can be more stable at moderate temperatures than the perovskite solar cells that most people are making currently,\u201d said Nitin Padture, professor in Brown\u2019s School of Engineering, director of Brown\u2019s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, and the senior co-author of the new paper. \u201cThe technique is simple and has the potential to be scaled up, which overcomes a real bottleneck in perovskite research at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-04-flipping-chemical-perovskite-solar-cells.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;04-flipping-chemical-perovskite-solar-cells.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin films of crystalline materials called perovskites provide a promising new way of making inexpensive and efficient solar cells. Now, an international team of researchers has shown a way of flipping a chemical switch that converts one type of perovskite into another\u2014a type that has better thermal stability and is a better light absorber. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions\/50732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}