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Engineered wood provides solar power even after the sun goes down

Engineered wood provides solar power even after the sun goes down
Design of interface-engineered wood-based CPCMs for solar-thermal energy conversion. BPNS@MPN drop-cast onto DW aerogels denoted as TBW, which after Ag reduction and 18-alkyl grafting was denoted as TBAW; the final SA-loaded CPCMs were denoted as TBAWP. Credit: Advanced Energy Materials (2026). DOI: 10.1002/aenm.70872

While sustainable solar energy can potentially meet our global power needs, it has one major flaw. When sunlight disappears, solar panels stop generating electricity. The problem is that while they do an excellent job of converting light into power, they are not so good at storing the energy they collect.

One solution is to use materials known to capture heat and release it later, such as phase change materials (PCMs)...

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