Search results for:

Today, an hour of sunlight on Earth is the equivalent of the worldwide energy consummation on a year. In this short film, Daniel Lincot, a researcher from the LECIME (Laboratory for Electrochemistry, Interfaces Chemistry and Modelizations for Energy), explains the exploitable potential everywhere in the world, where chemists play an important role in the conception of solar panels.

Daniel Lincot, a researcher from the “Laboratory for electrochemistry, chemistry of interfaces and modeling for energy” (LECIME), evokes the dozen of existing photovoltaic industries. A few are exploited, as the silicon solar cells, but new cells have appeared as the thin films or the dye-sensitized solar cell. The aim is to decrease the costs and to facilitate the recycling.

To what extent is photovoltaic energy used in France today? This film looks at various initiatives in progress. Photovoltaic energy from the sun is not just a pipe dream; combining chemistry and physics, it is a field with great potential, which is already being commercially developed. This new energy source is obtained by converting light from the sun into electricity in semi-conductor materials like silicon. The end goal is to produce photovoltaic modules cheaply and increase their…