Graphene For Solar Panel

Graphene has been developed as a non reflective coating for solar cells so the application of graphene to solar panels is not new news.

Graphene for solar panel. Nano technology allows graphene coatings to adhere to solar panels surface at a molecular level creating a layer of protection against weather elements. The addition of microscopically thin graphene layers to solar panels is a wonderful innovation but there are still years of research ahead. An ultra thin graphene layer could help protect next gen solar panels by luke dormehl july 7 2020 graphene the wonder material composed of a single layer of graphene atoms arranged in a. Moreover they envisioned a new manufacturing method that thanks to the versatility of graphene allows to reduce production costs and could lead to the production of large area solar panels.

Enhancing solar panels with hydrophobic properties is arguably the top benefit of graphene coatings. Graphene oxide go for example is less conductive but more transparent and a better charge collector which can be useful for solar panels. The conductive indium tin oxide ito is used with a non conductive glass layer as the transparent electrodes in most organic solar panels to achieve these goals but ito is rare brittle and makes solar panels expensive.