Scientists begin work on three-dimensional printers for photovoltaics. Objective: to lower costs
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The idea of print photovoltaic cells at home with the new three-dimensional printers it could turn into something much more important than a fashion for the rich. The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Abu Dhabi, affiliated with the much better known Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has in fact decided to buy one Fujifilm Dimatix DMP283.
The Dimatrix DMP 283 is just the printer of Fujifilm capable of self-printing sheets with photovoltaic characteristicsAnd. A sign that MIST is very interested in this potentially revolutionary technology.
So much so that, in addition to buying the printer, the institute has set up a team of researchers composed of Dr. Samuel Lilliu (a brilliant brain Cagliari on the run) and Dr. Marcus Dahlem. The two are normally involved in nano-optics research and microsystem engineering.
What will they do in Abu Dhabi with the Fujifilm printer? They will try to find a way to produce low cost photovoltaics, as MIST president Fred Moavenzadeh explains: “The development and optimization of semiconductors and nanoparticles is a fundamental step for the commercialization of low-cost organic photo-sensors“.
How will this technology enter our daily life? More generally, it is the whole organic photovoltaic sector that could meet us in a thousand ways: from electronic newspapers that charge themselves to solar charging integrated in many battery-powered everyday objects.
Even outside of photovoltaics, however, 3D printers that could change our lives. As in the case of the one that prints clothes by recycling fabrics.
Peppe Croce
