According to a study, a new material, antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) has been made, which can be used in solar power for self-healing. According to the researchers, the key finding from the University of New York raise the possibility that it could be conceivable to design high-performance and self-recuperating materials which could decrease costs and improve versatility.
The new antimony selenide is a material that absorbs solar power and is utilized for transforming light energy into power.
According to Keith McKenna, Professor from the Department of Physics, the process by which this semi-directing material self-recuperates is fairly similar to how a lizard can re-develop limbs when one is cut off. Antimony selenide fixes broken bonds made when it is cut by shaping new ones.
This capacity is unordinary in the materials world, unlike the animal kingdom, and has significant ramifications for utilizations of these materials in photochemistry and optoelectronics.
The paper talks about how broken bonds in numerous other semiconducting materials typically brings about a poor performance. Specialists refer to for instance, another semiconductor considered CdTe that must be synthetically treated to fix the issue.
We found that antimony selenide and the firmly related material, antimony sulfide, can promptly mend broken bonds at surfaces through structural reconstructions, subsequently disposing of the risky electronic states, Covalently-reinforced semiconductors like antimony selenide find broad applications in hardware, photochemistry, photovoltaics and optoelectronics for instance, solar panels and segment for lighting and displays, added Professor McKenna.
