Konarka was co-founded by Dr Alan Heeger, joint winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery and development of organic conductive polymers. Konarka produces a thin, flexible organic solar panel called Power Plastic that can be literally printed off a machine like newspaper, making it cheap to produce and possibly a viable energy source for the developed world.
Its flexibility also allows it to be incorporated into building designs in a myriad of ways, unlike traditional rigid, black, silicon solar panels.
This proprietary material can be printed or coated inexpensively onto flexible substrates using roll-to-roll manufacturing, similar to the way newspaper is printed on large rolls of paper. The resulting Power Plastic can then be manufactured into a wide range of end-use products.
This certainly looks like a game changer, if we can deploy solar power (that costs very little ) we can supplement the existing grids and save energy, this fits in with the green initiatives of small carbon footprint.
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