"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

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Japan has integrated ESD into national curriculum guidelines (the Courses of Study) and the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Education.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Even if there remains some dispute over the exact figures used, what the study does highlight is the importance of developing an integrated paradigm of production and recycling for algal fuel production, as I stressed before in the context of rare metals such as are required to maintain the electronics and solar power industries.

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