The Weed Brings Affordable Solar Power Worldwide

Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials is currently developing a new solar cell that is low-cost and will make solar power more accessible. The common pokeberry plant, a native weed to North America, South America, East Asia, and New Zealand, is used to coat solar cells to create a more efficient fiber-based solar cell. Coating fibers with the pokeberry, will help it to absorb more sunlight. Researchers discovered that fiber-based solar cells coated with the pokeberry generates twice as much power than current technology.

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