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Self-Charging Solar Cells: Better Than Batteries?
2013-06-12 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: A research team at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has demonstrated the viability of a design for solar panels that can simultaneously generate and store electrons harvested from sunlight in a single device. Like other solar panels, the new solar cells would use some electrons from light created as electricity. Unlike other solar cells, the panels would also store electrons on zinc oxide nanowires coated with polyvinylidene fluoride polymer (PVDF). The energy stored during the day could...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical