Recent progress in device designs and dual‐functional photoactive materials for direct solar to electrochemical energy storage

Y Zhao, J Li, Y Tan, C Zhu, Y Chen - Carbon Neutralization, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient solar energy utilization technologies are expected to promote the development of a
carbon‐neutral and renewable energy society. Photovoltaic cells (PVs) have played an …

Coupled Photochemical Storage Materials in Solar Rechargeable Batteries: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

H Liu, X Gao, Y Lou, HK Liu, SX Dou… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar rechargeable batteries (SRBs), as an emerging technology for harnessing solar
energy, integrate the advantages of photochemical devices and redox batteries to …

Sb2S3 Nanorods for Photoenhanced Li‐Ion Batteries: A Synergetic Balance Between Energy Harvesting and Storage

S Chamola, R Zhou, OM Bakr… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photobattery technology using a single active material for simultaneous solar energy
harvesting and storage presents a significant leap in solar energy storage for low‐power IoT …

PCBM Functionalized WS2 Hybrid Nanostructures for High Performance Li-Ion Battery Anodes: Toward Binder-Free Electrodes

B Mondal, A Azam, S Ahmad - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
To mitigate technical challenges associated with tungsten disulfide (WS2) anodes for lithium-
ion batteries (LIBs) application, we demonstrate a novel approach of using phenyl-C61 …

Stable Photo‐Rechargeable Al Battery for Enhancing Energy Utilization

LL Chen, X Bu, WL Song, HS Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The photovoltaic cells (PVs) are able to convert solar energy to electric energy, while energy
storage devices are required to be equipped due to the fluctuations of sunlight. However, the …

What Makes a Photobattery Light-Rechargeable?

A Pujari, BM Kim, H Abbasi, MH Lee… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The demand for autonomous off-grid devices has led to the development of “photobatteries”,
which integrate light-energy harvesting and electrochemical energy storage in the same …

Light vs Heat: Dissecting the De-intercalation in Photo-rechargeable Batteries

A Kumar, S Pradhan, S Pandya, R Hammad… - Nano Letters, 2025 - ACS Publications
Does light or heat play a seminal role in photo-rechargeable batteries? This study unravels
the effects of light in the exciton formation and separation processes in a photocathode …

Ruddlesden–Popper 2D Perovskite‐MoS2 Hybrid Heterojunction Photocathodes for Efficient and Scalable Photo‐Rechargeable Li‐Ion Batteries

RM Ansari, S Chamola, S Ahmad - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photo‐rechargeable batteries (PRBs) can provide a compact solution to power autonomous
smart devices located at remote sites that cannot be connected with the grid. The study …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging opto-operando techniques to shed light on lithium-ion batteries

S Chamola, S Ahmad - Next Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have transformed the adoption of portable gadgets to electric
vehicles over the last few years. To further their advancements towards grid energy storage …

Core‐Shell Architectured Sulfur Coated α‐Fe2O3 Nano‐Sheet Anode for Li‐Ion Battery with Insitu Active Solid Electrolyte Interfacial Layer and Li‐Sulfur Energy …

K Kasiviswanathan… - Batteries & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A versatile approach is achieved through the surface coating of sulfur on α‐Fe2O3
nanosheet by microwave treatment that inherently supports the formation of self‐induced …