Integrated Photo-Responsive Batteries for Solar Energy Harnessing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

Zhengsong Fang; Xuanhe Hu; Dingshan Yu

doi:10.1002/cplu.202000041

Integrated Photo-Responsive Batteries for Solar Energy Harnessing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

Chempluschem. 2020 Apr;85(4):599. doi: 10.1002/cplu.202000041.

Authors

Zhengsong Fang¹, Xuanhe Hu¹, Dingshan Yu¹

Affiliation

¹ Key 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.

PMID: 32237213
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202000041

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.