Nanocrystalline - Dye Solar Cell Lab

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This page is devoted to the research and development of a organic solar cell that can be built in a high school chemistry lab. It is supporting a summer undegraduate research project at UW.

Lab Manual

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Video Instructions

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Web Links

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Lab Interfacing

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Source for materials