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Caffeine could boost development of solar panels with greater efficiency

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UCLA researchers found caffeine might improve the stability of a new material for solar panels. Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of material science and engineering who led the research, said his team has been studying a solar cell material called perovskite for six years as an alternative power conversion material to traditional silicon solar cells.

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Caffeine could boost development of solar panels with greater efficiency

By Qiaozhen Wu

May 9, 2019 12:25 a.m.