{"id":177371,"date":"2023-12-04T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harvesting-more-solar-energy-with-two-dimensional-supercrystals"},"modified":"2023-12-04T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:22:24","slug":"harvesting-more-solar-energy-with-two-dimensional-supercrystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harvesting-more-solar-energy-with-two-dimensional-supercrystals","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting more solar energy with two-dimensional supercrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvesting-more-solar-energy-with-two-dimensional-supercrystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Emiliano Cort\u00e9s goes hunting for sunlight, he doesn\u2019t use gigantic mirrors or sprawling solar farms. Quite the contrary, the professor of experimental physics and energy conversion at LMU dives into the nanocosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the high-energy particles of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sunlight\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sunlight<\/a>, the photons, meet atomic structures is where our research begins,\u201d Cort\u00e9s says. \u201cWe are working on material solutions to capture and use solar energy more efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His findings have great potential as they enable novel solar cells and photocatalysts. The industry has high hopes for the latter because they can make <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light energy<\/a> accessible for chemical reactions\u2014bypassing the need to generate electricity. But there is one major challenge to using sunlight, which solar cells also have to contend with, Cort\u00e9s knows: \u201cSunlight arrives on Earth \u2018diluted,\u2019 so the energy per area is comparatively low.\u201d Solar panels compensate for this by covering large areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Emiliano Cort\u00e9s goes hunting for sunlight, he doesn\u2019t use gigantic mirrors or sprawling solar farms. Quite the contrary, the professor of experimental physics and energy conversion at LMU dives into the nanocosmos. \u201cWhere the high-energy particles of sunlight, the photons, meet atomic structures is where our research begins,\u201d Cort\u00e9s says. \u201cWe are working on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177371","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=177371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}