Solar materials by victorian technique?

A press release concerning our recent paper written together with the group of Michael Graetzel (EPFL) was published. The paper concerned the mechanochemical approach for perovskite synthesis. Good job, Anna and Daniel! The news has spread through Polish and international agencies, among others Science Daily, Nauka w Polsce, and Gazeta Wyborcza. Some of the more creative interpretations (e.g. at Electronics Weekly) linked mechanochemistry with methods and customs popular at the court of Queen Victoria...

 

Queen Victoria looking jealously at Anna making perovsiktes so easily. Original photo: Grzegorz Krzyżewski.