Scientists Can Make Solar Cells Thinner Than Spider Silk? Well Done.

Behold some glory-be futurism nonsense right here. Scientists have made solar cells that are thin like woah, and can be wrapped around human hair. Human hair, folks.

Gizmodo:

According to  research published in  Nature Communications, a team of scientists from Austria and Japan has created these new, thin-film soar cells that are just 1.9 micrometers thick. That’s over ten times thinner than any other solar cells ever made, and is thinner than a thread of spider silk.

Made from electrodes layered onto plastic foil, the devices are also incredibly flexible, which means they can be wrapped up tight–even around a human hair–without being damaged. Tsuyoshi Sekitani, one of the researchers,explains to PhysOrg:

“Being ultra-thin means you don’t feel its weight and it is elastic… As this device is soft, it is less prone to damage by bending even if it gets bigger.

I want these up in my hair, powering my augmented reality contact lenses and operating as a portable charging station for the electronics that are in my backpack and enmeshed directly into my meat-sac.