Descripción del proyecto
El futuro de los dispositivos energéticos orgánicos
El desarrollo de materiales energéticos orgánicos multicomponentes de alto rendimiento ha encontrado un obstáculo en la optimización de dispositivos. El largo proceso de evaluación de los prometedores compuestos orgánicos dificulta el progreso. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto FOREMAT, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende superar este obstáculo y llevar los dispositivos energéticos orgánicos hacia una nueva era. Al pasar de los métodos de evaluación intensivos en fabricación a los intensivos en medición, en FOREMAT se revolucionará el proceso de optimización. Su innovadora tecnología permitirá una rápida evaluación multiparamétrica de los nuevos sistemas, reduciendo considerablemente los tiempos de evaluación y conservando hasta el 90 % de los materiales. El objetivo último del equipo del proyecto FOREMAT es suministrar sistemas de materiales orgánicos que presenten un cambio radical en sus prestaciones, acercándolos al punto de inflexión previsto en el mercado.
Objetivo
Following promising early breakthroughs, progress in the development of high-performance multicomponent organic energy materials has stalled due to a bottleneck in device optimization. FOREMAT will develop a breakthrough technology to overcome this bottleneck by shifting from fabrication-intense to measurement-intense assessment methods, enabling rapid multi-parameter optimization of novel systems. Our goal is to deliver organic material systems with a step-change in performance, bringing them close to the expected market turn point, including panchromatic organic photovoltaics with ca 15% efficiencies and thermoelectric devices that could revolutionize waste heat recovery by their flexibility, lightweight and high power factor.
The development of multicomponent materials promises to dramatically improve the cost, efficiency and stability of organic energy devices. For example, they allow to engineer broad-band absorption in photovoltaics matched to the sun’s spectrum, or to create composites that conduct electricity like metals while thermally insulate like cotton yielding thermoelectric devices beyond the state-of-the-art. Despite these advantages, the long time required to evaluate promising organic multinaries currently limits their development.
We will circumvent this problem by developing a high-throughput technology that will allow evaluation times up to two orders of magnitude faster saving, at the same time, around 90% of material. To meet these ambitious goals, we will advance novel fabrication tools and create samples bearing a high density of information arising from 2-dimensional gradual variations in relevant parameters that will be sequentially tested with increasing resolution in order to determine optimum values with high precision. This quantitative step will enable a disruptive qualitative change as in depth multidimensional studies will lead to design rationales for multicomponent systems with step-change performance in energy applications.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
28006 Madrid
España