{"id":6144,"date":"2012-02-14T05:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:14","slug":"portuguese-researchers-create-photovoltaic-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/portuguese-researchers-create-photovoltaic-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Researchers Create Photovoltaic Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6145\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dephotex_pv_cell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dephotex_pv_cell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dephotex_pv_cell\" width=\"280\" height=\"286\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6145\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: European Commission<\/figcaption><\/figure>Can you envisage a future where photovoltaic panels are ubiquitous, embedded in fabrics and cars, and making the environment around you smarter?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Portuguese researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials are working to make this high-tech future powered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a> a reality. The technology they have created is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dephotex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dephotex<\/a>,  a photovoltaic textile with the characteristics we expect from this type of material: flexible, light, durable and resistant.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of it is that the flexible photovoltaic panels can be embedded in everything, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153from fabrics to plastics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They have also been testing panels in cars, so that the car\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s battery can be charged with solar power when the vehicle is left an entire day under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>How else could Dephotex be applied?<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inW6d7d7Lrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/hiring-solar-installers-in-hawaii-for-a-clean-reliable-energy-source\/\" title=\"Hiring Solar Installers in Hawaii for a Clean, Reliable Energy Source\">Hiring Solar Installers in Hawaii for a Clean, Reliable Energy Source<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you envisage a future where photovoltaic panels are ubiquitous, embedded in fabrics and cars, and making the environment around you smarter? Related Posts:Hiring Solar Installers in Hawaii for a Clean, Reliable Energy Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1375,1374,1706],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","tag-center-for-nanotechnology-and-smart-materials","tag-photovoltaic-fabric","tag-solar-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}