Quantum Dot Solar Cells

MIT researchers have designed a microneedle patch that can administer both a vaccine and quantum dots that sit under the skin for years at a time, essentially storing a person's vaccine history on their own body.

Engineers at the University of Toronto have combined perovskite and quantum dots to create an ultra-efficient, super-luminescent hybrid crystal that they say will create new records in power-to-light conversion efficiencies.

Scientists are developing hybrid materials that are a cross between living bacterial cells and non-living components such as gold nanoparticles. The resulting "living materials" are able to respond to their environment like regular living cells, while also doing things like conducting electricity.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have set a new efficiency record of 6 percent for colloidal quantum dot solar cells.

Research teams have announced that the use of nickel and selenium in the production of solar cells could make them less expensive and more efficient.