Photosynthetic Cells In Solar Panels

However the production cost of silicon solar cells is high both in terms of monetary and energy costs.

Photosynthetic cells in solar panels.

The most efficient perovskite solar cells can convert 22 to 23 percent of sunlight to electricity. They reported their findings in the american chemical society journal acs applied materials and interfaces. While photosynthesis is a plant based chemical process solar cells or photovoltaic cells are man made and convert solar energy into electricity. For the first time researchers have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism.

Currently the most widely used form of solar cells are made using silicon where silicon is essential to the photovoltaic process that converts light into electricity. Actual plant s photosynthesis efficiency varies from 0 1 to 0 8 while solar panels convert light into electric energy at an efficiency of approximately 6 20 for mass produced panels and above. Researchers at the university of british columbia have developed a new kind of solar cell that can convert sunlight into electricity but instead of using electronics like most solar cells this. The result is a first step in research.

Among photosynthetic pigments chlorophyll is the most crucial one which not only captures light energy from the sun but also participates in the electron transfer chain a molecular pathway. A natural process that occurs during photosynthesis could lead to the design of more efficient artificial solar cells according to researchers at georgia state university. It seems likely that people will continue to want liquid and solid fuels that can be burned whereas solar panels can only provide us with electricity. The researchers found that adding the br protein to perovskite solar cells improved the devices efficiency from 14 5 to 17 percent.