nano tech solar cells

PhysOrg: Nanotechnology may give plastic solar cells a boost: "RIT researchers, led by Ryne Raffaelle, professor of physics and microsystems engineering and director of the NanoPower Research Laboratories, hope to develop an improved polymer solar cell using nanomaterial additives. Raffaelle and his team will use a thin polymer film that can be rolled out in sheets. The film will contain nanoscale pieces of semiconductor material and single-walled carbon nanotubes to maximize energy conversion. "



This story is being hyped; the headlines make it sound like it's done; the detail is that funding has been granted and they're hopeful of results -bendy sheets of plastic with semiconducter properties and cheap to produce.