Kopernik Solutions, a nonprofit technology marketplace, recently began featuring Ames-based PowerFilm products on its website.

Kopernik is based in Brooklyn, New York, and its goal as a company is to connect breakthrough technologies with people who need them most.

Technology providers can post their products on Kopernik’s site. From there, organizations in developing companies can create proposals on how to use those products. Then, individual supporters can choose to fund specific projects through Kopernik.

Once a certain proposal has received enough funding, Kopernik forwards the product and shipping cost to the technology provider, such as PowerFilm. Then, the technology provider ships it to the organization seeking the technology.

PowerFilm’s three products featured on Kopernik are the F15-300N, a solar module with a cigarette lighter adapter; the F15-300N with RA-3c Solar Charger, which includes a 12 Volt battery charger pack for AA and AAA batteries; and the USB+AA Solar Charger, which can charge two rechargeable AA batteries and most USB devices.

Ewa Wojkowska, co-founder of Kopernik, said, “We are excited to include PowerFilm products on the Kopernik website and to promote this great technology with life-changing potential to reach those who need it most.”

Tim Neugent, president and CEO of PowerFilm, said, “PowerFilm is pleased to participate as a technology provider in the Kopernik online marketplace.

“We look forward to exploring humanitarian applications for our foldable chargers, and to discovering the usefulness and effectiveness of our products as tools to overcome development challenges and obstacles to growth.”

Visit Kopernik at http://www.thekopernik.org