Objective
"The renewable energy technologies already available are not yet capable of competing with fossil fuels mainly due to a poor
ratio cost/efficiency. A clear example is photovoltaic energy, for which high costs and moderate performances yield too long
payback times, despite the huge amount of solar energy constantly reaching the Earth. The key to cheap and more efficient
renewable energy sources lies in the materials at the heart of the different technologies. The synthesis of novel materials
with superior tailored properties for each particular energy application, and the development of cheap and scalable
fabrication protocols is therefore crucial if renewable energy technologies are to take a main share of modern society energy
mix. Thus I plan to focus on the synthesis and study of novel materials based on earth abundant elements, with tailored
properties for application in photovoltaic cells and other electronic devices, such as transparent electronics. On a complementary research line, the design of simpler and more efficient cell (nano)architectures is another key factor in maximizing the efficiency/cost ration of solar cells. In this sense I intend to develop novel nanoarchitectures in which the two main processes in solar cells, namely light abslorption and charge extraction, are decoupled and thus can be separately tackled and optimized. I want to address these goals by using and developing facile, low-cost and scalable approaches. The
hydrothermal method has proven to be a very effective synthetic approach yielding both known and new phases. Moreover,
it is a low cost method and easily scalable. I have also shown the efficiency of hydrothermal reactions for the fabrication of
hybrid nanostructures. Additionally, other low-cost, solution-based methods will be explored (electrochemistry, chemical
oxidation, etc). Finally, an exciting new approach to Atomic Layer Deposition that operates at atmospheric pressure will be
developed and implemented."
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electrolysis
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences meteorology atmospheric pressure
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FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
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MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG)
Coordinator
75794 Paris
France
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