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Integrated Photo-Responsive Batteries for Solar Energy Harnessing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
Zhengsong Fang1, Xuanhe Hu1, Dingshan Yu1
1Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite, and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer-based Composites of, Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. Dingshan Yu from Sun Yat-sen University, China. The Front Cover shows an integrated photo-responsive battery with the simplest two-electrode configuration powering a vehicle under light illumination. The Taiji diagram shows the working principle of this device, which combines photoexcited electrons (e- ) and/or holes (h+ ) with various redox species of the batteries during charging and/or discharging processes to realize the harnessing of solar energy. Read the full text of the Minireview at 10.1002/cplu.201900608.
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