Solar-thermal flat-panels that generate electric power

Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

High-performance nanotech materials arrayed on a flat panel platform demonstrated seven to eight times higher efficiency than previous solar thermoelectric generators, opening up solar-thermal electric power conversion to a broad range of residential and industrial uses, a team of researchers from Boston College and MIT report in the journal Nature Materials.

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