Entry Date:
July 7, 2008

Power Distribution and Energy Storage Focus Area: Discarded Car Batteries

Principal Investigator Angela Belcher

Co-investigator Paula Hammond


Angela Belcher of biological engineering and materials science and engineering, Paula Hammond of chemical engineering, Po-Yen Chen PhD ’15, and others have shown that a novel, high-efficiency, low-cost solar cell can be made using lead recovered from an abundant, old-technology source: lead-acid car batteries.