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MaDE Group participates at the "Kangaroo goes Science" event
The 100 best girls from this year's Kangaroo competition were invited to spend a day at ETH on June 21, 2018. In the afternoon, two groups of ten girls each visited our lab to fabricate their own Die-Sensitized Solar Cells with natural dies from berries. We tested them out in the sun and all solar cells were functioning devices. Well done, girls!
Behind the Paper: More About Our Recent Nature Communications Publication
One reason for capacity fade in lithium ion batteries - that pesky phenomena that results in you getting progressively less and less talk time on your mobile phone as your battery ages - is in part due to mechanical degradation that occurs in batteries at nanometer lengths scales.