{"id":118048,"date":"2021-01-04T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/first-glimpse-of-polarons-forming-in-a-promising-next-gen-energy-material"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:22:43","slug":"first-glimpse-of-polarons-forming-in-a-promising-next-gen-energy-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/first-glimpse-of-polarons-forming-in-a-promising-next-gen-energy-material","title":{"rendered":"First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-glimpse-of-polarons-forming-in-a-promising-next-gen-energy-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material\u2019s atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly disappear. As ephemeral as they are, they affect a material\u2019s behavior, and may even be the reason that solar cells made with lead hybrid perovskites achieve extraordinarily high efficiencies in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have used the lab\u2019s X-ray laser to watch and directly measure the formation of polarons for the first time. They reported their findings in <i>Nature Materials<\/i> today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese materials have taken the field of solar energy research by storm because of their high efficiencies and low cost, but people still argue about why they work,\u201d said Aaron Lindenberg, an investigator with the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at SLAC and associate professor at Stanford who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material\u2019s atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly disappear. As ephemeral as they are, they affect a material\u2019s behavior, and may even be the reason that solar cells made with lead hybrid perovskites achieve extraordinarily high efficiencies in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118048","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\/118048","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}