A research team at the University of Notre Dame recently coined a spreadable nanoparticle compound "Sun-Believable."
The fun pun came to life after the researchers, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, developed a solar paint out of the blend of ingredients.
"We've made a one-coat solar paint that can be applied to any conductive surface without special equipment," explains Prashant Kamat who is in charge of the research at Notre Dame's Center for Nano Science and Technology.
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles, layered with cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide, joins into a water and alcohol-based set of liquids, allowing it to become a paste so that it’s suddenly spreadable as paint.
The solar paint's efficiency and stability are in need of much improvement compared to current silicon-based solar materials, but of course, research and development are still in early stages.
And the positive perks out of all of this are glowing the good way. The solar paint can be brushed out in one coat to generate electricity. It can also be produced very inexpensively, in large quantities, which translates to promising possibilities in the future. It's that Sun-Believable.
