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Getting Wrapped Up In Solar Textiles Sunday, June 22, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Green Technology   
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Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. These new materials, known as solar textiles, work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor materials, they absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity. (source: web.mit.edu)
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