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Solar panels (Courtesy of TzahiV/Getty Images)Solar panels typically harvest energy from sunlight during the day. But how about a solar cell that generates electricity even when the rain falls in the middle of the night? Researchers in China's Soochow University have demonstrated such an all-weather device. What makes it possible is a triboelectric nanogenerator, which converts motion into electricity. Researchers including Zhong Lin Wang first proposed the concept of a hybrid solar cell and triboelectric nanogenerator in a paper published in 2015. Wang is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering with an adjunct appointment in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
