{"id":8865,"date":"2012-12-20T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:28:17","slug":"stanford-researchers-make-flexible-solar-cells-that-stick-to-just-about-any-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8865","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Researchers Make Flexible Solar Cells that Stick to Just About Any Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Researchers led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/zheng\/pages\/people\">Xiaolin Zheng<\/a>, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, demonstrated a way to transfer the active materials of the solar cell from a rigid substrate onto another surface, such as a sheet of paper or plastic, the roof of a car, or the back of a smartphone. As with other solar cells, wires would then be connected to deliver power, but flexible solar cells could be used on curved surfaces, and, because they\u2019re lightweight, they would be easier to install than conventional panels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/508946\/flexible-solar-cells-can-stick-to-just-about-any-surface\/\">Stanford Researchers Make Flexible Solar Cells that Stick to Just About Any Surface | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by Xiaolin Zheng, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, demonstrated a way to transfer the active materials of the solar cell from a rigid substrate onto another surface, such as a sheet of paper or plastic, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100,631,982,783],"class_list":["post-8865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research","tag-material-science","tag-solar-cells","tag-stanford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}