Any surface would be if the solar panel can serve thanks to a paint by a group of researchers was developed. The paint is the feature of nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, which sunlight into electricity to be able to convert.
The titanium dioxide particles in the paint are so-called quantum dots that are coated with cadmiumsulfide or cadmiumselenide. That combination delivers their elektriciteitgenererend power; quantum dots have a band gap by photons from sunlight can be covered, and then release the energy when the quantum dot to its ground state drops.
The quantum dots were by the team of the Center for Nano Science and Technology, in short NDnano of the Notre Dame university in the American state of Indiana developed. They were then in a mixture of water and alcohol-soluble, making a kind of paint was.
The return of the ‘zonnecelverf’ about 1 percent is very low, but there is a very cheap production. By large amounts of paint to use can the low yield can be compensated. The team called his paint, Sun-Believable, and continues to work on improving it. Especially the stability would still work need.