New Solar Cells Will be Printed Like Money
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Australian scientists at CSIRO’s Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) are on a quest to make solar cells as easy to print as money. Trials of the flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells will even be conducted by Securency International — a banknote printing company.
CSIRO researchers have devised a way to essentially print organic solar cells onto polymer. Once the cells become commercially viable, it will be easy — and cheap –to install them over large areas like rooftops.
VICOSC’s 3-year $A12 million project is at its halfway point, with trials six months ahead of schedule. Members of VICOSC include researchers from CSIRO Future Manufacturing Flagship, University of Melbourne, Monash University.
Photo Credit: CSIRO
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