There is a need to enable stable and persistent energy sources for integrated electronics and technologies operating in any strategic environment inaccessible to humans. Francesca Cova is developing a battery prototype based on the light-mediated conversion of radioactive decay energies into electricity, exploiting record-efficient scintillating nanoarchitectures.
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