Sustainable Responsive Hybrid Ionic Liquid-Polymer Gel Electrolyte Materials

可持续响应杂化离子液体-聚合物凝胶电解质材料

• 批准号: EP/Y005309/1
• 负责人: Matthew Derry
• 金额: $ 56.45万
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY005309%2F1
• 关键词: Sustainable; Responsive; Hybrid; Ionic; Liquid

Global energy consumption is rising daily at an astronomical rate. In 2021, we used 176,431 TWh worldwide, which was more than double the amount consumed in 1982 and over six times that used in 1950. Whilst the use of renewable energy has been increasing in recent years, it still only accounts for ca. 16% of our energy consumption, and it is projected that renewables will account for only ca. 20% of global consumption in 2040. Currently, the biggest barrier to the uptake of renewable energy, particularly wind and solar electricity, is the inherent intermittency of the power production and the lack of scalable methods of storing electrical energy. Despite this, there is still a mismatch between the R&D efforts on energy capture and energy storage. Existing energy storage devices are assembled via multiple laborious processing steps and typically employ flammable solvents and fossil fuel-derived materials with poor thermal and chemical stability. Hence, there is a need to identify new solutions for sustainable energy storage. Together with this, materials generated from renewable feedstocks are desperately required to displace fossil fuel-derived products currently used around the world. Strikingly, only ca. 1% of all current polymer and plastic materials are made from renewable resources.The aim of this project is to develop safe, reliable, sustainable and commercially relevant next generation responsive gel electrolyte materials which will facilitate better green energy storage solutions. We will create bespoke functional, renewable polymers that possess unique material properties which make them excellent choices for a plethora of practical applications compared to existing materials currently used. When these unique polymers are combined with ionic liquids, they can form hybrid ionic liquid-polymer gel electrolytes called ionogels - these ionogels are not only more environmentally friendly gel electrolytes but they have enhanced, responsive mechanical properties with a broader scope of applications in fuel and solar cells, transistors, actuators and battery electrolytes. This transformative research programme will deliver new sustainable, responsive ionogel materials with minimal polymer loading (less than 3% w/w), achieved using novel block copolymer solution self-assembly strategies and importantly via greener one-pot processes for in situ ionogel formation, significantly enhancing the industrial viability of these ionogel preparation routes.The ionogels developed in this project will address the significant shortcomings in the underutilisation of renewable energy in the coming years and will thus contribute to the UK's drive to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Given the desperate need for sustainable energy storage solutions, as recognised by the UN with Sustainable Development Goal 7 on affordable and clean energy, the proposed research is timely and impactful.

全球能源消耗每天以天文速度上升。在2021年，我们在全球使用了176,431个TWH，这是1982年消耗的两倍以上，超过1950年使用的六次。尽管近年来，使用可再生能源的使用量在增加，但它仍然仅计算Ca。我们的能源消耗的16％，预计可再生能源只能占约。 2040年全球消费量的20％。目前，吸收可再生能源的最大障碍，尤其是风能和太阳能，是发电的固有间歇性，也缺乏存储电能的可扩展方法。尽管如此，R＆D在能量捕获和能源存储方面的工作仍然不匹配。现有的储能设备是通过多个艰苦的加工步骤组装的，通常采用易燃溶剂和化石燃料衍生的材料，其热和化学稳定性较差。因此，有必要确定可持续能源存储的新解决方案。与此同时，迫切需要由可再生原料产生的材料来取代目前在世界各地使用的化石燃料衍生产品。令人惊讶的是，只有大约。当前所有聚合物和塑料材料中有1％是由可再生资源制成的。该项目的目的是开发安全，可靠，可持续和商业上相关的下一代响应式凝胶电解质材料，这将促进更好的绿色储能解决方案。与当前使用的现有材料相比，我们将创建具有独特的材料特性的定制功能，可再生的聚合物，使其成为许多实用应用的绝佳选择。当这些独特的聚合物与离子液体结合在一起时，它们可以形成称为离子凝胶的杂化离子液体聚合物凝胶电解质 - 这些离子凝胶不仅是更环保的凝胶电解质，而且具有更大的响应机械性能，具有燃料和太阳能电池和太阳能电池和晶体管，晶体管，操纵杆，操纵箱和电池的应用程序的范围。该变革性研究计划将使用最小的聚合物负载（小于3％w/w）提供新的可持续响应式离子凝胶材料，使用新型的块共聚物解决方案自组装策略，并通过更绿色的一盘过程来实现，以实现原位凝胶形成，从而大大增强了这些Irogel areverations的工业固定性，以实现这些Ionogel准备途径。在未来几年中，可再生能源的利用不足，因此将有助于英国到2050年到达净零温室气体排放的动力。鉴于联合国对可持续发展的可持续储能解决方案的迫切需求，其具有可持续发展的目标7对负担得起和清洁的能源的认可，拟议的研究是及时和有影响力的。