Solar Technology in Clothing

Bulky solar-powered gear is nothing new, but imagine charging your iPod or cell phone while you jog along the beach, read a book in the park, or bike to work invisibly, from the clothing you wear.

Implausible? Not really: Researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that could change the way we collect solar energy.

The USC team's graphene organic photovoltaics, recently discussed in the journalACS Nano, have a host of benefits: They're flexible, cheap to produce, are easy to manufacture, and they're light-weight. And while they're considerably less efficient than silicon cells, they offer unique applications.

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