(Source: IBM - International Business Machines Corporation) CAMBRIDGE, MA - 24 Jun 2013: The search for more versatile and less expensive materials for solar energy received a boost today as Harvard launched a free database that catalogues the suitability of 2.3 million organic, carbon compounds for converting sunlight into electricity. Harvard's Clean Energy project -- which screened the molecules using World Community Grid, an IBM-managed (NYSE: IBM) virtual supercomputer that harnesses the surplus computer power donated by volunteers -- is believed to be the most extensive investigation of quantum chemicals ever performed. IBM's World Community Grid made it possible for the...
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