Principal Investigator Angela Belcher
Co-investigator Paula Hammond
Project Website http://energy.mit.edu/research/discarded-car-batteries/
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.