Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily because photovoltaic cells remain expensive and relatively inefficient.

But solar may not be such a marginal power source for long. Chemists at Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inl.gov and Idaho State University http://www.isu.edu/ have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and further spur the growing nanotech revolution.

by Mike Wall, Research Communications Fellow

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