High-efficiency Block Copolymer Solar Cells: A Scaleable Prototype for Low Cost Energy Generation

高效嵌段共聚物太阳能电池：用于低成本发电的可扩展原型

• 批准号: EP/F056397/1
• 负责人: Michael Turner
• 金额: $ 63.3万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF056397%2F1
• 关键词: efficiency; Block; Copolymer; Solar; Cells

Widespread implementation of photovoltaic electricity to meet changing energy demands requires a step-change in the cost of photovoltaic power. This proposal assembles a consortium of chemists, physicists and materials scientists from Imperial College London and the universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Durham to produce new prototype polymer solar cells that have high power conversion efficiencies and could be mass produced cost effectively. We propose new polymer solar cell designs that integrate flexibility with inexpensive materials and solution based processing. In one approach, block copolymers are used to direct formation of nanostructured thin films to provide high efficiency polymer solar cells. In a second approach, block copolymers will be used to direct crystallisation within nanostructured films. Independent optimisation of the optical and electronic properties, together with theoretical modelling input, will provide design rules for maximising power conversion efficiency. The project will establish strategies for scaling up the device designs which have the highest efficiencies. Our objective is to construct affordable and scalable polymer solar cells that have an energy conversion efficiency of at least 7%.

为了满足不断变化的能源需求，光伏发电的广泛应用需要光伏发电成本的逐步变化。这项提案汇集了来自伦敦帝国理工学院和曼彻斯特大学、谢菲尔德大学和达勒姆大学的化学家、物理学家和材料科学家组成的财团，以生产具有高功率转换效率并且可以成本有效地大规模生产的新原型聚合物太阳能电池。我们提出了新的聚合物太阳能电池设计，将灵活性与廉价的材料和基于解决方案的处理相结合。在一种方法中，嵌段共聚物用于指导纳米结构薄膜的形成以提供高效聚合物太阳能电池。在第二种方法中，嵌段共聚物将用于在纳米结构膜内直接结晶。光学和电子特性的独立优化以及理论建模输入将为最大化功率转换效率提供设计规则。该项目将制定扩大具有最高效率的设备设计的战略。我们的目标是构建价格合理且可扩展的聚合物太阳能电池，其能量转换效率至少为7%。

项目成果

Monotelechelic poly(p-phenylenevinylene)s by ring opening metathesis polymerisation.

• DOI: 10.1039/c4cc05118a
• 发表时间: 2014-09
• 期刊: Chemical communications
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: B. J. Lidster;Jonathan M. Behrendt;M. Turner

Poly(thienylenevinylene) prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization: Performance as a donor in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices

开环复分解聚合制备的聚（噻吩乙烯撑）：作为本体异质结有机光伏器件中供体的性能

• DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.01.049
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Polymer
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Horie M

Complex Macromolecular Architectures - Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

复杂的大分子结构 - 合成、表征和自组装

• DOI: 10.1002/9780470825150.ch12
• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Yu C

Alkyl substituted poly(p-phenylene vinylene)s by ring opening metathesis polymerisation

• DOI: 10.1039/c6py01186a
• 发表时间: 2016-01-01
• 期刊: POLYMER CHEMISTRY
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Lidster, Benjamin J.;Kumar, Dharam R.;Turner, Michael L.
• 通讯作者: Turner, Michael L.

Cyclopentadithiophene based polymers-a comparison of optical, electrochemical and organic field-effect transistor characteristics

• DOI: 10.1039/b924126d
• 发表时间: 2010-01-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
• 作者: Horie, Masaki;Majewski, Leszek A.;Turner, Michael L.
• 通讯作者: Turner, Michael L.