It’s like hell when you are on the move or at some important place and the battery of your electronic gadget goes dead. We have to recharge the batteries routinely but now, a team of European researchers are claiming to have found a new technique to coalesce a thin-film organic solar cell with a new type of polymer battery thereby giving it the potential of recharging itself when exposed to natural or indoor light.
Moreover, the new sleek battery is flexible too that allows it to be used in a number of low-wattage electronic devices. Gilles Dennler, a coauthor of the paper said:
The potential for this type of product is large, given [that] there is a growing demand for portable self-rechargeable power supplies.
The prototype solar battery weighs a mere two grams and is less than 1mm thick. Each cell produces about 0.6 volts. By shaping a module with strips linked in sequence, “one can add on voltages to fit the requirements of the device.”
Researchers envisage that such a device might be commercially available in some products next year.
