{"id":83637,"date":"2018-10-16T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/printable-solar-materials-could-soon-turn-many-parts-of-a-house-into-solar-panels"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:28:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:28:23","slug":"printable-solar-materials-could-soon-turn-many-parts-of-a-house-into-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/printable-solar-materials-could-soon-turn-many-parts-of-a-house-into-solar-panels","title":{"rendered":"Printable solar materials could soon turn many parts of a house into solar panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/printable-solar-materials-could-soon-turn-many-parts-of-a-house-into-solar-panels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New houses could soon deliver on a long-awaited promise and incorporate windows or roof tiles that harvest solar energy, research conducted at KAUST suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Derya Baran, at the KAUST Solar Center, and her colleagues have developed a photovoltaic organic material that captures light efficiently and that potentially could be coated on building <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional roof-mounted solar panels are made from slabs of silicon, but <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic molecules<\/a> can also capture energy from sunlight. These molecules could be formulated as inexpensive printable inks that are applied to regular building components such as windows. Turning sunlight into electricity is a multistep process, and the key to developing high-performance <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+photovoltaic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic photovoltaic materials<\/a> has been to find organic molecules that are good at every step, Baran explains.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-10-printable-solar-materials-house-panels.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;10-printable-solar-materials-house-panels.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New houses could soon deliver on a long-awaited promise and incorporate windows or roof tiles that harvest solar energy, research conducted at KAUST suggests. Derya Baran, at the KAUST Solar Center, and her colleagues have developed a photovoltaic organic material that captures light efficiently and that potentially could be coated on building materials. Traditional roof-mounted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83690,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83637\/revisions\/83690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}