Is there something in the hair? The tale of a solar cell made with human hair
A close up of the solar cell created by the Trinity team - the dark hair can clearly be seen stretched between two metal pins
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Debate is good. Debate is healthy. Debate is currently raging after an article recently appeared on the UK's Daily Mail website announcing a revolutionary solar cell that's made using human hair. A group of teenage students from Nepal claim to have replaced expensive doped silicon used in conventional solar panels with cheap and readily available human hair to produce a cell capable of generating 9V (18W) of electricity. Curiosity got the better of Gizmag's Paul Ridden, who contacted one of the team to find out more.
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- February 9, 2010 @ 23:30 UTC