“When it comes to producing earth-friendly solar energy, pink may be the new green…Scientists here have developed new dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that get their pink color from a mixture of red dye and white metal oxide powder in materials that capture light.

Currently, the best of these new pink materials convert light to electricity with only half the efficiency of commercially-available silicon-based solar cells — but they do so at only one quarter of the cost…This is the first time that researchers have made a DSSC from anything other than a simple oxide…” Full Slice

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