Cheap Lamps Made with Aluminum Foil

[Dave Monroe]

Cheap Lamps Made with Aluminum Foil
By Corey Binns, Special to LiveScience
posted: 13 June 2007 08:49 am ET

Cheap, skinny aluminum foil lamps may soon illuminate our lives
instead of big, bulky light bulbs.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made the
low-cost lamps by treating aluminum foil bought at the grocery store
with an acidic bath. The new light source, which is lighter, brighter,
and more efficient than incandescent light, is described in the June
issue of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics....

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