National Sustainable Design Expo

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    Senior design team wins $90K EPA grant for spinach-powered solar cell

    At the Eighth Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, a team of Vanderbilt engineering seniors won the Marketplace Innovation Award, Student Choice Award and a $90,000 Phase II grant from the EPA for a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes expensive silicon wafers with a protein derived from spinach. Read More

    Apr 25, 2012