The University of Newcastle developed proprietary technology using organic polymers that capture solar energy and conduct electricity.

Liquid organic polymers are laid onto sheets of material by everyday printers, like ink on paper, to create a solar panel just 0.075 millimeters thick that can be stuck, with special adhesive tape, to a range of surfaces.

The Univesity lab-scale printer can easily produce hundreds of meters of material per day. On a commercial-scale printer, this would increase to kilometers.

If you had just ten of these printers operating around the clock, you could print enough material to deliver power to 1000 homes per day.

This energy tech is supremely light-weight, hyper-flexible, ultra-thin, and recyclable.

Professor Paul Dastoor has been working on the technology for more than a decade,

The printed solar technology is not as efficient as the silicon-based one (standard modules) and degrades much faster.

One of the advantages of these materials is that they generate more electricity at low light levels than conventional solar modules (silicon), so that means it´s not relevant where the roof is pointing.

This material can even produce small quantities of energy from moonlight.