MIT Associate Professor Michael Strano and his research team have brought nano-technology into the solar energy race.
The team created a multilayered carbon nanotube, which concentrates solar energy—100 times more than a photovoltaic cell. The nanotube is used to build an antennae or “solar funnel.” Strano says, “Instead of having your whole roof be a photovoltaic cell, you could have little spots that were tiny photovoltaic cells, with antennas that would drive photons into them.”
