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Solar textiles: Electrifying curtains for your home

Washington: Ever thought the curtains in your house are not bright enough? Researchers at MIT have created designs for flexible photovoltaic materials, known as solar textiles, that can also be draped as curtains, which may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. According to a report in Science Daily, these new materials work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor