A Marriage Made in Sunlight: Invention Merges Solar with Liquid Battery
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 15:02
in Physics & Chemistry
As solar cells produce a greater proportion of total electric power, a fundamental limitation remains: the dark of night when solar cells go to sleep. Lithium-ion batteries are too expensive a solution to use on something as massive as the electric grid. Song Jin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a better idea: integrating the solar cell with a large-capacity battery.