
Get Solar Power By Painting Your House!
Putting solar panels on your house can be a big, costly construction project. Now imagine simply painting the roof and getting electricity from that.
Image: Steven Puetzer/Getty Images
At Notre Dame, professor of chemistry and biochemistry Prashant Kamat led a group that found a mixture of nanometer-sized titanium dioxide particles, coated with either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide and suspended in a water-alcohol mixture to create a paint-like paste that generates electricity when Read more [...]