SciDev.Net: A flexible solar cell that could provide cheap energy for everyone has been awarded a prize worth EUR800,000 million (US$970,000). The Millennium Technology Prize, which recognises “technological innovation that is significantly improving the quality of human life today and in the future”, was awarded to inventor Michael Grätzel from the Lausanne Federal Polytechnic, Switzerland yesterday (9 June). “Grätzel cells are likely to have an important role in low-cost, large-scale …