Physics and Astronomy Blog

CNI Researchers Design Device to Harvest and Store Solar Energy

The sun is an abundant — but still largely untapped — energy source.

With the push for renewable energy, researchers from the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI), led by Dr. Apparao Rao, and the Indian Institute of Science have designed a smart supercapacitor using a novel stack of metal oxides — vanadium pentoxide and zinc oxide — that can efficiently harvest energy from sunlight and simultaneously store it.

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