Nano flake

In a general meaning a nanoflake is a flake (that is, an uneven piece of material with one dimension substantially smaller than the other two.)with at least one nanometric dimension (that is, between 1 and 100 nm). A flake is not necessarily perfectly flat but it is characterized by a plate-like morphology. There are nanoflakes of all sorts of materials. In a more restricted meaning, in the context of solar energy, Nano flakes are a type of semiconductors that have potential for solar energy creation as the product itself is only in the prototype phase. With its crystalline structure the crystals are able to absorb light and harvest 30 percent of solar energy directed at its surface. These Nano Flakes will also help out with economic and environmental problems associated with solar energy. Working on this Nano Flake Technology is Dr. Martin Aagesen at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen with a PhD from the Nano Science Center. When Dr. Martin Aagesen discovered and published this new idea in 2007 there was much publicity about it and sparked many people to work on it. One major company that is working on these Nano structures is SunFlake which is a science company from the Nano Science Center with Dr. Martin Aagesen as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The funding for the Nano flakes came from Danish Venture Capital fund SEED capital and University of Copenhagen.