SEES Fellows: Sustainable organic solar power from printed building-integrated panels

SEES 研究员：利用印刷建筑一体化面板实现可持续有机太阳能发电

• 批准号: 1215753
• 负责人: Cody Schlenker
• 金额: $ 50.06万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1215753&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SEES; Fellows; Sustainable; organic; solar

This interdisciplinary project will explore the technological, environmental, and socioeconomic barriers to adopting sustainably printed organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules for building-integrated solar power production by considering the overall life cycle of the product. Research efforts will focus on: 1) validating a new strategy for recouping photocurrent losses in high photovoltage devices, 2) providing a cradle-to-grave assessment of printed OPV modules as building-integrated roofing shingles, 3) developing a general route to achieving state-of-the-art efficiencies from halogen-free solvents, and 4) developing a comprehensive picture of the charge generation/recombination mechanism for a novel homologous series of fullerene-free organic acceptors.While solar power technically has the greatest potential of any sustainable resource, it is currently used to supply only about one-tenth of one percent of worldwide energy demand. The ability to implement any potentially disruptive technology for solar power generation is constrained from below by the performance, manufacturability, and competing uses/economics of available materials, and constrained from above by decision making frameworks (public/fiscal policy, individual finance) related to, among other things, the product?s cradle-to-grave life cycle. This project will explore the sustainability of solar power devices capable of being fabricated from novel organic dyes and polymers (organic photovoltaics or OPVs) that require low energy inputs and low capital investment. Because OPVs can be relatively lightweight and can be arbitrarily molded to flexible or curved substrates, they have potential for being integrated into building components such as roofing shingles, thus bringing down costs. This research will assess the technological, environmental, and socioeconomic feasibility of such applications.This project will also engage and mentor high school students in hands-on learning activities that demonstrate the basic solar energy concepts of absorbing light and converting it to electricity, will share research results with a broad public audience, and will establish university-industry partnerships in the area of solar energy development.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.

这个跨学科项目将探索采用可持续印刷的有机光伏（OPV）模块的技术，环境和社会经济障碍，以考虑产品的整体生命周期，以实现建筑物集成的太阳能生产。 研究工作将重点关注：1）验证一种新的策略，以弥补高光电压设备中的光电损失，2）对印刷OPV模块的摇篮对摇篮对摇篮的评估作为建筑物综合的屋面瓦，3）开发一种总体上，从而实现卤素内溶剂的一般性效率，并开发出卤素内的效率，并开发出4），并开发出4）的全面效果，4）一系列无富勒烯的有机受体。尽管从技术上讲，太阳能具有任何可持续资源的最大潜力，但目前仅用于提供全球能源需求的十分之一。 实施任何潜在的破坏性技术来为太阳能发电实施任何可能的破坏性技术受到可用材料的性能，制造性和竞争性用途/经济学的限制，并通过与产品（公共/财政政策，个人融资）相关的产品来限制上述材料，除其他方面，产品是“产品”。 该项目将探索能够由需要低能输入和低资本投资的新型有机染料和聚合物（有机光伏或OPV）制造的太阳能设备的可持续性。 由于OPV可以相对轻巧，并且可以任意模制为柔性或弯曲的底物，因此它们有可能将其集成到建筑组件中，例如屋顶木瓦，从而降低成本。 This research will assess the technological, environmental, and socioeconomic feasibility of such applications.This project will also engage and mentor high school students in hands-on learning activities that demonstrate the basic solar energy concepts of absorbing light and converting it to electricity, will share research results with a broad public audience, and will establish university-industry partnerships in the area of​​ solar energy development.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability研究员（看到研究员）计划，目的是帮助实现导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动所需的发现，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。 借助See Fellows的支持，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究员能够在与可持续性有关的独立研究职业中建立自己。