Integrated Photo-Responsive Batteries for Solar Energy Harnessing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. Dingshan Yu from Sun Yat-sen University, China. The Front Cover shows an integrated photo-responsive battery with the simplest two-electrode configuration powering a vehicle under light illumination. The Taiji diagram shows the working principle of this device, which combines photoexcited electrons (e-) and/or holes (h+) with various redox species of the batteries during charging and/or discharging processes to realize the harnessing of solar energy. Read the full text of the Minireview at 10.1002/cplu.201900608.