This is old news; but wrt price/gm may be a place to start.
Private work w/Lynn Hemler, (Querka) now dec. showed the price to be somewhat lower in 2012.


DEC 11 2016

chessmite Thursday, 11/08/12 06:22:37 PM
Re: DDhawk post# 4245
Post # of 9672

sweee-et....starting to notice more products on the shelf touting Nano
still staying busy here. Noticed some older stuff by MSW that is informative in regards to solar

Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, and Nanotechnology Research

Wong and coworkers
(2007)

price/batch ($) 3.27

CdSe solids produced (mg) 95

price/gram ($) 34 ...................page 50

Notes
Selectivities are
consistently 90+%
All precursors
available in bulk

http://cnst.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/Resources/...20Wong.pdf

.......good review and ties some research together
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While I have talked of only 1MR we do have another which has been stated could be used for commercial needs.
The MR's increase efficiencies would also lower cost/gm