Researchers have developed a silicon solar cell that can harvest energy created from falling raindrops, according to an article published in ACS Nano. The researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) used this new technology on a prototype device made by LBNL researchers.
Researchers have developed a silicon solar cell that can harvest energy created from falling raindrops, according to an article published in ACS Nano. Scientists from Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials and Soochow University improved previous efforts to develop the technology by combining a silicon heterojunction solar cell with a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), while a polymer material, placed between the two conducted energy from the TENG to the solar cell.