Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Energy-generating building material is in production.
The next building material to generate solar power may be windows. In a dye-sensitized solar cell, dye molecules attached to nanoscale titania particles are held between two panes of glass; the dye absorbs light and releases electrons, which are harvested by the ­titania.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/17688/