Getting nature’s help to charge your phone

It’s a new way of charging up portable devices, but it draws on an ancient source: Solar cells that mimic the process of photosynthesis are starting to turn up on consumer products

By Anne Eisenberg / The Bulletin
February 1, 2010

A new solar cell that imitates Mother Nature’s way of converting sunlight to energy is making its debut in a variety of consumer products.

The technology uses a photosensitive dye to start its energy production, much the way leaves use chlorophyll to begin photosynthesis.

The dye-sensitized....

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