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.

该跨学科项目将通过考虑产品的整个生命周期，探讨采用可持续印刷有机光伏（OPV）模块进行建筑一体化太阳能发电的技术，环境和社会经济障碍。 研究工作将侧重于：1）验证用于补偿高光电压器件中的光电流损失的新策略，2）提供印刷的OPV模块作为建筑物集成屋顶板的从摇篮到坟墓的评估，3）开发从无卤素溶剂获得最先进效率的一般路线，和4）开发一种新的富勒烯同源系列的电荷产生/重组机制的全面图片-虽然太阳能在技术上具有任何可持续资源的最大潜力，但它目前仅用于供应全球能源需求的约十分之一。 实施任何潜在的颠覆性太阳能发电技术的能力从下到上受到可用材料的性能、可制造性和竞争用途/经济性的限制，从上到下受到与产品相关的决策框架（公共/财政政策、个人财务）的限制？从摇篮到坟墓的生命周期。 该项目将探索太阳能发电设备的可持续性，这些设备能够由新型有机染料和聚合物（有机光致发光材料或OPV）制造，需要低能量投入和低资本投资。 由于OPV可以相对较轻，并且可以任意模制到柔性或弯曲的基板上，因此它们有可能被集成到屋顶瓦等建筑部件中，从而降低成本。 该研究将评估这些应用的技术、环境和社会经济可行性。该项目还将吸引和指导高中学生参与实践学习活动，展示吸收光并将其转化为电能的基本太阳能概念，并将与广大公众分享研究成果，并将在太阳能开发领域建立大学与产业的合作伙伴关系。该项目由NSF科学，工程和可持续发展教育研究员支持（SEES研究员）计划，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。 在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。