Quite a few media organisations around the world picked up this story in the New Scientist on the latest progress being made in LSCs - basically a newish way of trapping light photons and chanelling them using a waveguide to displace electrons on the cell and hence create direct current electricity. Some researchers at MIT however have come up with a couple of improvements;

i) Getting rid of the plastic substrate and replacing it with a sprayed onto glass mixture of dyes combined with a substance called tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminium which is used as the wa