📋 Tender Overview
Understanding, Predicting And Enhancing The Stability Of Organic Photovoltaics
New Strategies To Strengthen Organic Photovoltaic Stabilityphotovoltaics Play A Crucial Role In The Battle Against Climate Change. Organic Photovoltaics (Opv) Stand Out For Their Cost-Effectiveness And High Power-Conversion Efficiencies, But Their Long-Term Stability Needs To Be Improved. The Eu-Funded Opvstability Project Aims To Comprehend The Degradation Mechanisms And Factors Contributing To Stability In Organic Photovoltaic Materials And Solar Cells. It Will Develop Tools For Estimating The Lifespan Of Organic Solar Cells, For The Identification Of Stable Structural Motifs And Device Architectures, And For Exploration Of Innovative Strategies To Enhance The Stability Of The Next-Generation Efficient Opvs. In Collaboration With Academic And Industrial Partners And While Delivering Training To 10 Phd Students, Opvstability Will Employ Advanced Methods Such As Machine Learning To Strengthen The Stability Of Opvs.
Funded Under
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Msca)
Total Cost
€ 0,00
Eu Contribution
€ 2 700 619,20
Coordinated By
Technische Universitaet Graz
Austria
Objective
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.
