Solar energy from spinach and toothpaste: fabrication of a solar cell in schools
Abstract
We will show how pupils can make a solar cell with spinach, toothpaste and a few other items found in any school laboratory. This device is called a Graetzel cell, and could trigger off a revolution in photovoltaic technology.
- Publication:
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European Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0143-0807/19/1/008
- Bibcode:
- 1998EJPh...19...51S