{"id":593240,"date":"2023-07-25T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=593240"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T05:35:31","slug":"worlds-smallest-electric-generator-to-power-solar-cell-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-smallest-electric-generator-to-power-solar-cell-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s smallest electric generator to power solar cell tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening new doors in solar cell technology, an international team of scientists including a young Indian researcher has developed the world\u2019s smallest electric generator that can convert sunlight into electricity with twice the efficiency of conventional solar cells.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of the technology lies a novel nano-material that does three things: convert sunlight into electricity, convert the heat generated by the sunlight into electricity, and store the electricity within the molecule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormal solar panels have 20 per cent efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. Our material can do it with 40 per cent efficiency,\u201d Pritam Sadhukhan, an Indian researcher working at Kyushu University in Japan and the first author of the study detailing the research, told DH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening new doors in solar cell technology, an international team of scientists including a young Indian researcher has developed the world\u2019s smallest electric generator that can convert sunlight into electricity with twice the efficiency of conventional solar cells. At the core of the technology lies a novel nano-material that does three things: convert sunlight into electricity, convert the heat generated by the sunlight into electricity, and store the electricity within the molecule. \u201cNormal solar panels have 20 per cent efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. Our material can do it with 40 per cent efficiency,\u201d Pritam Sadhukhan, an Indian researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}