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<h3>Harvesting and storing solar energy</h3>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Abstract</span> :</strong></p>
<p>Solar energy is the cleanest renewable source of energy. Currently, coupling of photovoltaic (PV) devices with batteries and/or supercapacitors harvest and store this energy. However, coupling these devices usually involves multiple interfaces through which the generated excited carriers have to traverse. To mitigate the problem of efficiency losses through multiple interfaces, an approach of capturing and storing solar energy simultaneously in a single material (<em>bi</em>-functional material) has been put forward very recently in the literature. The talk will present the understanding we build through an electrochemical approach on how a single material is capable of harvesting and storing solar energy simultaneously. The talk will also exploit the variety of parameters that include tuning of structural and external parameters, leading to increasing the charge storage amount and prolonging its duration.</p>