{"id":109770,"date":"2020-07-10T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/photo-rechargeable-zinc-ion-devices-merge-solar-cell-and-battery-tech"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:05:47","slug":"photo-rechargeable-zinc-ion-devices-merge-solar-cell-and-battery-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/photo-rechargeable-zinc-ion-devices-merge-solar-cell-and-battery-tech","title":{"rendered":"Photo-rechargeable zinc-ion devices merge solar cell and battery tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photo-rechargeable-zinc-ion-devices-merge-solar-cell-and-battery-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have made a battery that can be directly charged in sunlight without needing an external solar panel. Clever design of the battery electrodes facilitates photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries that could find applications as cheap devices for off-grid solar farms.<\/p>\n<p>Solar energy is often stored in rechargeable batteries for later use. Currently, this process requires separate solar cells to harvest the energy, and batteries to store it. Now, a team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk\/people\/mfld2\/\">Michael De Volder<\/a> from the University of Cambridge in the UK has engineered a battery cathode that can take the place of the solar cell and recharge the battery without requring an external energy harvester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"An image showing the energy levels of P3HT and graphene oxide \" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photo-rechargeable-zinc-ion-devices-merge-solar-cell-and-battery-tech2.jpg\" class=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"856\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made a battery that can be directly charged in sunlight without needing an external solar panel. Clever design of the battery electrodes facilitates photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries that could find applications as cheap devices for off-grid solar farms. Solar energy is often stored in rechargeable batteries for later use. Currently, this process requires separate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}