blackberry dyed solar cell kit for students

[Christopher Cprek]

I'm passing along this note from a LVL1 member. It's an interesting kit to make dye-sensitized solar cells.

"Hi Chris,

I attended a lecture at UofL this week given by the winner of the Conn Prize (http://www.conncenter.org/leigh-ann-conn-prize/), Dr. Michael Graetzel, a Swiss chemist who developed a dye-sensitized solar cell that far exceeds the efficiency of its silicon counterpart...pretty groundbreaking work.  He mentioned a kit high school students can use to replicate the process of his work on a smaller scale using blackberries.  I thought it might be of interest to you and the MakerEd group.  Here's the link:

http://www.solideas.com/solrcell/ICE_98_001_NanocrystalllineSolarCellKit.html

Best,

Sara"