Graphene Solar Panels Rain

Chinese scientists have discovered a way for solar cells to generate power via rain.

Graphene solar panels rain.

Graphene solar panels work rain or shine solar panels today work best during periods of strong sunlight but start to wane when it gets cloudy or rainy. The resulting all weather solar cell concept was then equipped to produce power from both sunshine and the rain substitute. Graphene has been developed as a non reflective coating for solar cells so the application of graphene to solar panels is not new news. Since scientists and researchers are stretching graphene s performance to actively collecting energy from rainwater they were able to produce hundreds of microvolts from the water and reach 6 53 percent.

Graphene layer could allow solar cells to generate power when it rains. The addition of microscopically thin graphene layers to solar panels is a wonderful innovation but there are still years of research ahead. The research done by the chinese team shows promise as a proof of concept but they were only able to achieve about a 6 5 efficiency in the rain compared to the typical average 20 25 efficiency that. A breakthrough in graphene based solar panels could change all that by allowing solar panels to generate electricity during inclement weather.

What s happening here is that the positively charged ions are binding to the ultra thin layer of graphene and forming a double layer technically referred to as a pseudocapacitor with the electrons already present.