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The development of a new form of solar cell - the photoelectrochemical cell by the Swiss chemist Prof Michael Gratzel.
The development of a new form of solar cell - the photoelectrochemical cell by the Swiss chemist Prof Michael Gratzel.
| Module code and title: | S247, Inorganic chemistry: concepts and case studies |
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| Item code: | S247; 12 |
| First transmission date: | 1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Barrie Whatley |
| Contributors: | Michael Gratzel; Susan Rae |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Micelle; Photoelectrochemical cell; Photovoltaic cell; Regeneration; Solar cell; Ultraviolet light |
| Subject terms: | Solar cells; Solar energy |
| Footage description: | Footage - 1970's oil crisis (0'06"-0'42") - Solar powered vehicles. Solar panels on houses, buoys. Solar cells (0'48"-1'37") - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Photoelectrochemical cells (1'38"-2'13") - Chloroplasts. Animation of cell surface (2'27"-3'51") - Animation of surfactant molecules forming into micelles. Micelle reaction. Graphic of micelle (4'37"-5'44") - Graphic of light harvesting reaction (5'47"-6'55") - Beaker of colloid. Graphic of colloid. Oxidising water to oxygen (7'13"-8'30") - Graphic of electrochemical cell in which water is cleaved by ultraviolet light (9'25"-10'25") - Laser lab. Yield measurement (10'47"-11'26") - Yield measurement (12'21"-13'03") - Electrode. Current measurements (13'17"-14'06") - Electrode with high surface area titanium dioxide film (14'36"-15'21") - Cell manufacture. Cartoon analogy of how cell works. Energy-level diagram of cell (16'09"-21'58") - Photoelectrochemical cells. Graph of conversion efficiencies by year (22'19"-22'51")Solar hut demo (23'22"-23'47"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU7593 |
| Production number: | FOUS709H |
| Videofinder number: | 4700 |
| Available to public: | no |
