Question: is it interesting working with colour electricity and why do you do it?

Jess Wade answered on 15 Jun 2015:

It’s so interesting ! Everyday I find out new things about materials no one else thinks can conduct electricity. I can make them glow in all different colours and then we can use them to make mobile phone screens and televisions. Because I can print the materials on plastics, soon we’ll be making mobile phones that we can roll up and put in our pockets.
I’m really doing it to make plastic solar panels though. Solar panels are great because they mean we can get electricity from the sun’s light and use it to charge our iPads and heat our houses. This will help to reduce global warming and ultimately save the world! So when we work on our materials for bendy solar panels, we are planning to print them on sheets of plastic and roll them across the desert. Then we can catch all the sunlight and stop burning fossil fuels!