Build a Solar Panel with TIO2 for Your Science Fair Project

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I am interested in making solar panel with TIO2 dye-sensitized solar cells for science fair.
Can anyone help me?
 
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Google HOW TO MAKE SOLAR CELLS .

I found, for example:
http://voh.chem.ucla.edu/classes/Solar_cells/pdf/Student_Solar.pdf

which appears to cover exactly what you want with TI02...
 
It'd be neat to create a spray-coating that instantly grows epitaxial SiO2 layers as you spray it on a conductor in a clean-room environment, lending to "spray-on" silicon solar cells.
I'd like to do something like this for an electric-powered scooter (around 250-350W electric motor and a 32Vdc LION battery). Just make the scooter and spray the stuff on as if a spraypaint or something.
I can drive around all day without recharging the darn thing! :) :) :)