Graphene For Solar Panel

The addition of microscopically thin graphene layers to solar panels is a wonderful innovation but there are still years of research ahead.

Graphene for solar panel.

The conductive indium tin oxide ito is used with a non conductive glass layer as the transparent electrodes in most organic solar panels to achieve these goals but ito is rare brittle and makes solar panels expensive. Other types of treatments cannot prevent water spots formation as graphene does. Graphene oxide go for example is less conductive but more transparent and a better charge collector which can be useful for solar panels. Moreover they envisioned a new manufacturing method that thanks to the versatility of graphene allows to reduce production costs and could lead to the production of large area solar panels.

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 solar to electricity ratio efficiency from the solar panel. Graphene has been developed as a non reflective coating for solar cells so the application of graphene to solar panels is not new news. Enhancing solar panels with hydrophobic properties is arguably the top benefit of graphene coatings.