Featured in Fruits of our labour – 03-2021

New pathways in flexible thin film

Having picked up GBP 5.8 million ($8 million) in a series of investments, U.K.-based Power Roll is pushing ahead with pilot production of an innovative new thin film with which it can manufacture both solar modules and capacitors. In the future, the design could also bring the potential for solar generation and energy storage within a single lightweight device.

By

Mark Hutchins

09 Mar 2021

Image: Power Roll

Flexible thin-film solar has long attracted interest, both academic and commercial, for its potential to transform what we think of as a solar panel today. Lightweight devices, easy and cheap to manufacture in a variety of forms, can be bent and shaped for integration into the built environment, or even vehicles. These approaches could …

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