Indian scientist, others design device that can store solar energy

Storing solar energy for later use has always been a big challenge. A young Indian scientist who is currently a postdoc in a US university and colleagues may have just overcome this hurdle, at last.

The device designed by Varun Kashyap and others at the University of Houston is not only capable of harvesting solar energy efficiently, but also storing it until it is required. The work can have a range of applications from power generation to desalination to distillation, the scientists said in a paper published in the journal Joule on Wednesday.

Kashyap, who completed his B.Tech from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2015,is currently a Post-doctoral Associate at Cornell University.