Mechanical engineer seeks to make solar cells competitive
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 06:50
in Physics & Chemistry
One day in the 1990s, as he was riding home from high school in São Paulo, Tonio Buonassisi looked out the bus window at the Brazilian city's long lines of traffic, and its smoggy haze. In that moment, he realized that there had to be better ways for people to produce and use energy—and that he wanted to try to do something about it.