While Solar Power has been refined and made more accessible by many emerging new technologies, none have had the effect that this latest offering from the researchers at the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have had. They have come up with a a new way to harness the power of the sun.

The researchers have just come up with a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots or CQDs. Illan Kramer and his team have now allowed their invention to become a major step toward making spray-on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture.

Kramer hopes that in the not so distant future it is his dream that one day you’ll have two technicians with Ghostbusters backpacks come to your house and spray your roof with solar cells. The CQDs can be sprayed onto any kind of shaped surface and convert them into solar cells capable of generating power.

What’s more this technology has also made the devices have better control and improved purity. Now it is just a matter of determining how to scale the CQDs and make this new class of solar technology profitably manufactured. An interesting science project which may just solve our future power problems.