Enabling polymer acceptors for all-polymer solar cells

为全聚合物太阳能电池提供聚合物受体

• 批准号: 490712-2015
• 负责人: Li, Yuning
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=586587
• 关键词: Enabling; polymer; acceptors; solar; cells

Great effort has been devoted to explore renewable energy resources to alleviate the reliance of our economy on fossil fuels and protect our environment. Among a variety of renewable energy resources, solar energy is most attractive because it is most abundant, ubiquitous, low-cost (free), and clean. Solar cells can harvest and convert solar energy into electricity, which is a favored form of energy for use. Polymer solar cells, which have superb mechanical properties and can be manufactured at ultra-low cost, have emerged as a very promising renewable energy solution. While remarkable progress has been made in recent years to improve the power conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells, there still exist several barriers to the commercialization of this technology, which are mainly originated from the limitations of some key materials currently used, especially the electron acceptors. This project will develop enabling polymer acceptor materials to replace the currently dominating fullerene-based acceptors to enable all-polymer solar cells (APSCs), which are expected to have improved lifetime, industrial manufacturability, and lower cost. This research encompasses a number of scientific and engineering disciplines such as organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, and electrical engineering. Through this research, new knowledge will be created for these disciplines. Innovations made in this research will be useful for several related Canadian industry sectors including chemicals, printing, textiles, energy, housing, automobile, and telecommunication. Commercialization of the APSCs technology will benefit all of the above industrial sectors from production of chemicals to the manufacturing, distribution, and installation of APSCs. A wide-spread application of APSCs will reduce the use of fossil fuels, protect our environment, boost our economy, and improve the life quality of Canadians.

为了减少我国经济对化石燃料的依赖，保护我们的环境，中国一直在大力开发可再生能源。在各种可再生能源中，太阳能最具吸引力，因为它最丰富、最普遍、成本最低(免费)、最清洁。太阳能电池可以收集太阳能并将其转化为电能，这是一种受欢迎的能源形式。聚合物太阳能电池具有优异的机械性能，可以以超低的成本制造，已经成为一种非常有前途的可再生能源解决方案。尽管近年来在提高聚合物太阳能电池的能量转换效率方面取得了显著的进展，但这项技术的商业化仍然存在一些障碍，这主要是由于目前使用的一些关键材料，特别是电子受体的限制。 该项目将开发能够取代目前占主导地位的基于富勒烯的受体的聚合物受体材料，以实现全聚合物太阳能电池(APSC)，这种电池有望具有更长的寿命、工业可制造性和更低的成本。这项研究涵盖了许多科学和工程学科，如有机化学、聚合物化学、化学工程、材料科学和工程、纳米技术、电化学和电气工程。通过这项研究，将为这些学科创造新的知识。这项研究的创新将对加拿大几个相关的工业部门有用，包括化工、印刷、纺织、能源、住房、汽车和电信。APSCs技术的商业化将使从化学品生产到APSCs的制造、分销和安装的所有上述工业部门受益。APSC的广泛应用将减少化石燃料的使用，保护我们的环境，促进我们的经济，并改善加拿大人的生活质量。