http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/biohybrid-solar-cell-breakthrough-spinach-protein-combined-with-silicon-in-new-way-that-greatly-boosts-performance/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/biohybrid-solar-cell-breakthrough-spinach-protein-combined-with-silicon-in-new-way-that-greatly-boosts-performance/#comment-146797 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:51:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42272#comment-146797 […] Biohybrid Solar Cell Breakthrough: Spinach Protein Combined with Silicon in New Way that Greatly Boo… […]

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/biohybrid-solar-cell-breakthrough-spinach-protein-combined-with-silicon-in-new-way-that-greatly-boosts-performance/#comment-134413 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42272#comment-134413 […] A small research collaboration between Oregon State University and Portland State University announced that they were able to boost the output of solar cells enhanced with algae by as much as three times! Although very exciting news, these are laboratory conditions and whether similar experiments in real conditions will yield similar results is not clear at this point.     We can learn a lot by studying nature and applying mechanisms that are already put in place by natural selection to our own inventions. This has been done many times before scientists started working on algae-inspired solar cells. For two cool examples, check out how new solar trackers mimic sunflowers and spinach-based solar cells. […]

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/biohybrid-solar-cell-breakthrough-spinach-protein-combined-with-silicon-in-new-way-that-greatly-boosts-performance/#comment-131778 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:38:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42272#comment-131778 […] the photosynthetic protein in spinach with silicon, researchers create a solar cell that produces considerably more electrical current than any previous solar biohybrids. [Clean […]

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/biohybrid-solar-cell-breakthrough-spinach-protein-combined-with-silicon-in-new-way-that-greatly-boosts-performance/#comment-131652 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:09:43 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=42272#comment-131652 […] last week reported on a new technological breakthrough that has seen the photosynthetic protein in spinach combined […]

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