{"id":95548,"date":"2019-08-29T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:02:29","slug":"scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover photovoltaic nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has discovered a new material which, when rolled into a nanotube, generates an electric current if exposed to light. If magnified and scaled up, say the scientists, the technology could be used in future high-efficiency solar devices.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/category\/technology\/technology-and-r-d\/\"> Technology and R&amp;D<\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/region\/germany\/\"> Germany<\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/region\/japan\/\"> Japan<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" width=\"466\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes2.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"90489\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2019\/08\/29\/scientists-discover-photovoltaic-nanotubes\/photovoltaic-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/photovoltaic.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"466,469\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"photovoltaic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/photovoltaic.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/photovoltaic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has discovered a new material which, when rolled into a nanotube, generates an electric current if exposed to light. If magnified and scaled up, say the scientists, the technology could be used in future high-efficiency solar devices. Technology and R&amp;D Germany Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95548","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=95548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}