Researchers from Queen Mary University of London’s School of Engineering and Materials Science have come up with a low-cost solar cell made from discarded shrimp shells. Current solar cells are produced from ruthenium and other highly expensive metals, so the shrimp shell approach could provide a very unexpected but helpful solution to the high cost of solar power, which has traditionally been the major barrier to its mass adoption.



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