Nanoparticles self-assemble to harvest solar energy

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-nanoparticles-self-assemble-harvest-solar-energy.html

"loosening strict requirements on periodicity of quasiperiodic nanoscale pattern significantly increases device's scalability... Thermal energy to electricity using thermoelectric materials... self-assembled by iron oxide... quasiperiodic nanophotonic structure achieves >94% absorbance, <0.2 suppressed thermal emissivity, and under natural solar illumination, absorber features, >80°C rise... flexible planar solar thermoelectric harvester 20 mV per square cm. powers 20 LEDa per square meter solar irradiation"

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