On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Rick Monteverde wrote:
Algae again - diatoms have been tried with some success. Stuck to the
conductive substrate, they are coated with a layer of titanium
dioxide.
Photons ping around in the fancy geometric nanostructures for
increased hits
on the dye-sensitized stuff thereby knocking loose more electrons, or
something like that.
http://tinyurl.com/msnat6
Cool!
I'd love to hear the story of how they discovered that, the
inspiration to try it.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
