{"id":2695,"date":"2010-09-13T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:11:39","slug":"funneling-solar-energy-antenna-made-of-carbon-nanotubes-could-make-photovoltaic-cells-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/funneling-solar-energy-antenna-made-of-carbon-nanotubes-could-make-photovoltaic-cells-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Funneling Solar Energy: Antenna Made of Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Photovoltaic Cells More Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/09\/100912151548.htm\" target=\"blank\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/strong> (Sep. 12, 2010) \u2014 Using carbon nanotubes (hollow tubes of carbon atoms), MIT chemical engineers have found a way to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than a regular photovoltaic cell. Such nanotubes could form antennas that capture and focus light energy, potentially allowing much smaller and more powerful solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>Solar panels generate electricity by converting photons (packets of light energy) into an electric current. Strano&#8217;s nanotube antenna boosts the number of photons that can be captured and transforms the light into energy that can be funneled into a solar cell.<\/p>\n<p>The antenna consists of a fibrous rope about 10 micrometers (millionths of a meter) long and four micrometers thick, containing about 30 million carbon nanotubes. Strano&#8217;s team built, for the first time, a fiber made of two layers of nanotubes with different electrical properties &#8212; specifically, different bandgaps.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/09\/100912151548.htm\" target=\"blank\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2010) \u2014 Using carbon nanotubes (hollow tubes of carbon atoms), MIT chemical engineers have found a way to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than a regular photovoltaic cell. Such nanotubes could form antennas that capture and focus light energy, potentially allowing much smaller and more powerful solar arrays. Solar panels generate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/funneling-solar-energy-antenna-made-of-carbon-nanotubes-could-make-photovoltaic-cells-more-efficient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funneling Solar Energy: Antenna Made of Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Photovoltaic Cells More Efficient<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}