Need a transparent powder that is conductive...

[triffid]

Elmers glue dries clear.I used this fact once to make a copper oxide solar cell.I glued a piece of metal window screen(after I burned the plastic off of the window screen) on top of the copper sheet to make a electrical connection.Once dried the sunlight hits the copper oxide layer ok around the wires of the window screen.You might be able to make elmers glue conductive with some trial and error.You can always use carbon powder in one of your experiments or metal powders.Triffid

[triffid]

Most window screens are protected from rusting with a plastic coating.So you have to burn the plastic off to make a good electrical connection.Triffid

[pese]

http://www.mansolar.com/bauen.htm  solarzelle bauen DE
http://www.mansolar.com/function.htm  "             GB

[derricka]

Hi Stefan,
Bayer produces a conductive transparant polymer coating called Baytron P
Not sure sure how conductive it is, but perhaps you can get a sample from them.

http://www.chemie.de/news/e/1272/

[professor]

Hi All,
can anybody suggest a powder that is electrically conductive and
is also transparent ?

I want to build a special solarcell and still need to know how I can best
use some powder to use in a paint mix, so that this mix is transparent
and still conducts electricity very well.

I know, that TinOxid is used in solar cells as the electrode
material put onto the glas layer, but I wonder,
if normal tinoxid powder is also conductive and transparent,
when I want to use it as a "painting mix" with some binder material...

What other substances could be used in a paint solution to just paint
a  conductive top layer onto some other materials that will
be electrically conductive and will be transparent to let the sunshine through ?

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

use colloidial Silver  you can make it cheaply yourself or you can buy it in health food stores.
"Silver is the best natural conductor of electricity, followed by copper, gold, and aluminum."
http://www.elec-toolbox.com/theory.htm#valence
If you have some left over you can drink some its good for you. Google it
professor