As Europes transparent solar panel market swells, Swiss scientists have set a new efficiency record for the technology.
This could lead the way to energy-generating windows that power up our homes and devices.
The researchersdeveloped a way of improving the combination of two newly designed photosensitizer dye molecules.
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For reference, commercial solar panels have an average efficiency between15% to 22%.
How are DSCs already being used?
Dye-sensitised solar cells are notonly transparent, but can also befabricated in multiple colors and for low cost.
In fact, some are already being used in skylights, greenhouses, as well as glass facades.
And as of 2021, the Netherlands-based company Physee isinstalling 15,000 of its SmartWindows in office buildings across Europe.
For European startups, this could be a game changer.
Lets just hope Europes startups are ready to walk through.
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Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou
Ioanna is a writer at TNW.
With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.
