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Understanding, Predicting and Enhancing the Stability of Organic Photovoltaics

Descrizione del progetto

Nuove strategie per rafforzare la stabilità del fotovoltaico organico

Il fotovoltaico svolge un ruolo cruciale nella lotta ai cambiamenti climatici. Il fotovoltaico organico (OPV) si distingue per l’economicità e l’elevata efficienza di conversione di potenza, ma la sua stabilità a lungo termine deve essere migliorata. Il progetto OPVStability, finanziato dall’UE, intende comprendere i meccanismi di degradazione e i fattori che contribuiscono alla stabilità dei materiali fotovoltaici organici e delle celle solari. Svilupperà strumenti per stimare la durata di vita delle celle solari organiche, per identificare design strutturali stabili e architetture di dispositivi e per esaminare strategie innovative per migliorare la stabilità di OPV efficienti di prossima generazione. In collaborazione con partner accademici e industriali e formando al contempo 10 dottorandi, OPVStability utilizzerà metodi avanzati come l’apprendimento automatico per rafforzare la stabilità degli OPV.

Obiettivo

Photovoltaics is a major pillar in tackling climate change, one of the biggest current threats to humankind. Organic photovoltaics (OPV) could significantly contribute to this, as organic solar cells can be manufactured in efficient and low-cost roll-to-roll processes and are already reaching power conversion efficiencies above 19%. However, in order to have a large impact, the long-term stability OPV has to be improved to obtain lifetimes of many years.
Therefore, OPVStability aims to develop (i) an in-depth understanding of the degradation mechanisms and stability-promoting factors of organic photovoltaic materials and solar cells, (ii) tools to predict the lifetime of organic solar cells and to identify stable structural motifs as well as device architectures and (iii) innovative strategies to significantly enhance the stability of efficient OPV of the next generation.
OPVStability combines partners from academia and industry with a strong background in OPV and/or specialized scientific methods including theoretical calculations and simulations, experimental degradation studies on single materials, materials combinations and interfaces, accelerated aging and outdoor stability measurements, advanced synchrotron-based analytics, high-throughput experiments and machine learning approaches.
Within OPVStability, ten PhD-students work on this timely and interdisciplinary research project accompanied with an excellent training program comprising scientific skills as well as a comprehensive set of soft and transferable skills.

Coordinatore

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 270 331,20
Indirizzo
RECHBAUERSTRASSE 12
8010 Graz
Austria

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Regione
Südösterreich Steiermark Graz
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
Nessun dato

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