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«The overall sun - to - electricity efficiency of the hydricity process, averaged over a 24 - hour cycle, is shown to approach 35 percent, which is nearly the efficiency attained by using the best photovoltaic cells along with batteries,» Gençer said.
These multi-junction solar cells have set world records in efficiency, approaching 50 percent, but they require expensive manufacturing techniques, limiting them to niche applications like satellites or requiring mirrors to concentrate sunlight on tiny cells (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).
Essentially, they created what is known as a quantum dot photoelectrochemical cell that catalytically achieved quantum efficiency for hydrogen gas production exceeding 100 % — in the case of their experiments an efficiency approaching 114 %.
While some of today's solar cells use a blend of cadmium and tellurium to convert light into electricity, adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of about 22 percent to levels approaching the theoretical limit of 30 - 33 percent.
The energy efficiency of organic solar cells is approaching that of conventional silicon solar cells, but they don't necessarily have to compete on the same market.
According to the authors, future studies should aim to improve the efficiency of the approach to generate a pure population of cells that closely mimic adult Leydig cells.
«Our new approach can lower the operating temperature of solar cells passively, improving energy conversion efficiency significantly and increasing the life expectancy of solar cells,» said Linxiao Zhu, a physicist at Stanford and lead author on the Optica paper.
Their work builds upon and may potentially supersede several previous approaches to the problem of mitochondrial mutations that occur as a result of the degenerative aging process, including allotopic protein expression, (6) its optimization using an MTS, (3 - 5) and the exploitation of the multiprotein RNA import complex (RIC) of the protozoal parasite Leishmania tropica (7)(which the investigators characterize as «requir [ing] the introduction of nonnative tRNAs with foreign protein factors or the transfer of a large multisubunit aggregate into cells, which is of low efficiency and difficult to reproduce in desirable disease - relevant settings» (2)-RRB-.
Comparing this approach to the classic CRISPR / Cas9 system designed to cleave the DNA, the Gladstone team found that CRISPRi is actually more effective, silencing the target gene in more than 95 percent of cells, compared with the 60 percent to 70 percent efficiency of CRISPR / Cas9.
«The inducing efficiency of our approach is comparable with using transgenic reprogramming factors,» HongKui Deng, a cell biologist at Peking University who led one of the teams, told The Scientist in an email.
Methods to enhance the reprogramming efficiency would significantly increase the feasibility of this approach, especially for cell types which tend to be more difficult to reprogram, such as the primary adult human fibroblasts used in this study.
«If the material can be synthesized so that only very efficient facets develop, then we could see a big jump in the efficiency of perovskite solar cells, possibly approaching 31 percent,» said Sibel Leblebici, a postdoctoral researcher at the Molecular Foundry.