NC State Engineers Aim for Less Expensive Solar Energy
source: http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2008/11/177ndparsonsenergygrant.php
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded North Carolina State University's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering a $1.2 million grant to build and study tiny materials that can help generate renewable energy. Researchers will use the grant to learn more about how these nanostructures – objects hundreds of times smaller than the width of a human hair – can be engineered to mimic natural ways of converting energy into a form consumers can use.
