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Polymer in Energy Storage and Generation

This course covers polymers for applications in energy storage and generation. It is divided into four parts. Part I provides an overview of energy issues and introduces organic photovoltaics. Part II discusses charge transport mechanisms and properties of organic materials. Part III covers materials and devices, including various polymer-based solar cells and batteries. Part IV focuses on technology aspects like processing methods and flexible substrates. The course textbook is Organic Photovoltaics by Brabec et al. and Polymer Materials for Energy and Electronic Applications by Peng et al. Additional reference books provide background on organic photovoltaic concepts and mechanisms.

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Polymer in Energy Storage and Generation

This course covers polymers for applications in energy storage and generation. It is divided into four parts. Part I provides an overview of energy issues and introduces organic photovoltaics. Part II discusses charge transport mechanisms and properties of organic materials. Part III covers materials and devices, including various polymer-based solar cells and batteries. Part IV focuses on technology aspects like processing methods and flexible substrates. The course textbook is Organic Photovoltaics by Brabec et al. and Polymer Materials for Energy and Electronic Applications by Peng et al. Additional reference books provide background on organic photovoltaic concepts and mechanisms.

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PPE-XXX: Polymer in Energy Storage and Generation (UM)

Credit Hours: 3 (Theory = 3), Contact Hours: 3 (Theory = 3)

PART-I: General Overview


Introduction: the Energy Supply, the Oil Shortage, Global Warming, Renewable Energies,
Photovoltaic Energy, World Market, Technologies, Political Incentives, Potential of PV, Organic
Photovoltaics and its Potential as a Low-Cost PV Technology, Costs of PV, Cost Model for OPV:
Representative for any Low-Cost and Low-Performance, Technology, energy storage systems,
energy storage challenges and opportunities.

PART-II: Charge transport Mechanism and Properties of Organic Materials


Molecular Semiconductor Picture of Conjugated Polymers: Molecular Structure, Optical and
Electronic Properties, Characterization of Excited States, Photoinduced Electron Transfer in
Pure Conjugated Polymers and Molecules, Detection of Charges in Conjugated Polymers:
Pump–Probe Spectroscopy, Application of Pump–Probe Spectroscopy in the ms Range to
Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Blends. Kinetics of Photoinduced Charge Generation in
Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Blends, Light-Induced Electron-Spin Resonance Detection of the
Charge Transfer Process, Oligo-Phenylene Vinylene: A Model System for Donor–Acceptor
Interactions.
Transport Properties of Conjugated Polymers: Disorder and Localization, Conduction in
Conjugated Systems, Exciton-Dissociation and Charge-Recombination Processes, Metal–
Insulator Transition, Hopping Transport, Magneto-resistance, Thermo-power.

PART-III: Materials and Devices


Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, Organic Solar Cells Incorporating a p–i–n Junction and a p–n
Homojunction, Liquid-Crystal Approaches to Organic Photovoltaics, Photovoltaic Cells Based on
Nanoporous Titania Films Filled with Conjugated Polymers, Regioregular Polythiophene Solar
Cells, Material Properties and Performance, Fluorene-Containing Polymers for Solar Cell
Application, Fluorene-Containing Polymers for Solar Cell Applications, Carbazole-Based
Conjugated Polymers as Donor Material for Photovoltaic Devices, Solar Cells Based on Cyanine
and Polymethine Dye, Solar Cells Based on Composites of Donor Conjugated Polymers and
Carbon Nanotubes, Fullerene-Based Acceptor Materials, Photovoltaic Devices Based on
Polythiophene/C60, Alternating Fluorene Copolymer–Fullerene Blend Solar Cells, Solar Cells
Based on Diblock Copolymers.
Polymers for energy storage capacitor applications: Supercapacitor, Polymer-Based Electrode:
Conducting Polymer, Carbon/Conducting Polymer Composite, Metal/Conducting Polymer Composite,
Metal Compound/Conducting Polymer Composite, Ternary Conducting Polymer-Based Composite,
carbon/metal-organic frameworks/conducting polymer, Polymer-Based Electrolyte: Proton-conducting
gel polymer electrolyte, conducting salts-based polymer gel electrolyte, alkaline polymer gel
electrolytes, polymeric ionic liquids. Lithium-Ion Batteries (LiB) Based on Polymers: Polymers as Active
anode materials in LiB “Conducting Polymers, Organodisulfides, Nitroxyl Radical Polymers, Conjugated
Carbonyl Polymers, Polymer/Carbon Hybrid Electrodes, and carbon fiber based hybrid electrodes”,
Polymers as Separators in LiB, “Microporous Polymeric Membrane”, polyelectrolyte for LiB
“Poly(ethylene oxide)-Based Electrolyte System, Poly(methyl methacrylate)-Based Electrolyte,
Polyacrylonitrile-Based Electrolyte, Poly(vinylidene fluoride)-Based Electrolyte”.

PART-IV: Technology
High-Performance Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics, Conducting and Transparent Polymer
Electrodes, Reel-to-Reel Processing of Highly Conductive Metal Oxides substrates for energy
storage and conversion devices , Novel Electrode Structures for storage and concersion Devices,
Deposition methods, Flexible Substrates Requirements for energy storage and conversion
devices, Barrier Films for Photovoltaics Applications, Roll-to-Roll Processing of Thin-Film
Organic Semiconductors.

Textbook:
1. Christoph Brabec (Editor), Ullrich Scherf (Editor), Vladimir Dyakonov (Editor), Organic
Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies, 2nd Edition, John
Wiley & Sons, 2011 (ISBN: 3527623205, 9783527623204)
2. Huisheng Peng, Xuemei Sun, Wei Weng, Xin Fang, Polymer Materials for Energy and
Electronic Applications, 1st Edition, Elsevier, 2017 (ISBN: 9780128110911)

Reference book:
1. Christoph Joseph Brabec (Editor), Vladimir Dyakonov (Editor), Jürgen Parisi (Editor), Niyazi
Serdar Sariciftci (Editor), Organic Photovoltaics: Concepts and Realization, 2003 edition,
Springer, 2003 (ISBN-10: 354000405X, ISBN-13: 978-3540004059)
2. Sam-Shajing Sun, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and
Devices, 1st Edition, CRC Press, 2005(ISBN 9780824759636 - CAT# DK963X)

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