Chinese / Australian breakthrough in Solar cell production.

China is widely acknowledge as one of the worlds worst polluters however like other polluters in the West, China is investing in alternative energy research. The latest edition of scientific journal Nature has reported that the University of Queensland (UQ) in collaboration with Professor Huiming Cheng and researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science have made a breakthrough that could revolutionise Solar energy production.

 

Professor  Max Lu, professor at the UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) said  “We have grown the world’s first titanium oxide single crystals with large amounts of reactive surfaces, something that was predicted as almost impossible,”  

 

The technology uses Titanium Nano-Crystals which has the potential to produce cost effective solar energy, hydrogen splitting from water and solar decontamination of pollutants.

Mr Lu also  said that it wasn’t just renewable energy where this research could be applied.

    “They are also fantastic for purifying air and water,” he said,” One could paint these crystals on to a window or a wall to purify the air in a room.”

 

According to Professor Lu there was a huge potential for the use of these crystals in water purification and recycling but that this technology would only become available in about 5 years time.

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