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A new light for solar power

RMIT

RMIT Source: RMIT

Inspired by an American fern, researchers have developed a groundbreaking prototype that could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding solar back as a total energy solution. The new type of electrode created by RMIT University researchers could boost the capacity of existing integrable storage technologies by 3000 per cent.Kulasegaram Sanchayan talks to the lead author, PhD researcher Litty Thekkekara.



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