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Scientists at Queen Mary University (London) created shrimp solar panels – on chemical elements that are available in shellfish and shrimp shells.
These are common chitosan and chitin, which are also very cheaper than the rare metals (say ruthenium) used today in the production of solar cells (nanostructured).
Unfortunately, shrimp solar cells are significantly inferior usual – metal, but scientists are optimistic to bring their development to a level comparable to the existing one.
Note that low efficiency and high cost of solar batteries is a stumbling block because of what they do not get widely used in the world. Of course, shrimp material is cheap – this is good, but it does not even reach the efficiency already used solar cells.
True, British scientists claim that their shrimp batteries may well be used to charge various pocket gadgets where performance is not so much important cheapness. Moreover, in the future, the authors will do everything possible and even the impossible to significantly increase efficiency solar cells from shrimp.
