Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Coupling aqueous zinc batteries and perovskite solar cells for simultaneous energy harvest, conversion and storage

  • Peng Chen,
  • Tian-Tian Li,
  • Yuan-Bo Yang,
  • Guo-Ran Li,
  • Xue-Ping Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27791-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Accumulation of intermittent solar energy using secondary batteries is an appealing solution for future power sources. Here, the authors propose a device comprising of perovskite solar cells and aqueous zinc metal batteries connected via the sandwich joint electrode method.