Title: HEPAFLEX - HIGH-EFFICIENCY PEROVSKITES ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES FOR SUSTAINABLE APPLICATIONS
Acronym of the project: HEPAFLEX
Funding entity: EUROPEAN COMISION
Modality: HORIZONTE EUROPA
Entity code: Project 10112234
UJI accounting code: 23I408
Principal researchers:
Involved researchers:
Acronym of the project: HEPAFLEX
Funding entity: EUROPEAN COMISION
Modality: HORIZONTE EUROPA
Entity code: Project 10112234
UJI accounting code: 23I408
Principal researchers:
- Iván Mora-Seró
Involved researchers:
- Beatriz Julian-Lopez
Summary/Abstract:
Achieving an efficient and sustainable photovoltaic (PV) system is a must to power the increasing energetic demands in multiple areas
and contexts, in a non-detrimental way to the environment and society. Halide perovskites (HaP) have revolutionized the field due to
their high photoconversion performance at the laboratory scale. Consequently, the commercialization of HaP solar cells (PSCs) is now
a high-priority topic involving many research groups and companies worldwide. However, mass production methods to fabricate highly
efficient, stable PSCs in a safe and sustainable manner present scientific and technological challenges, and fabrication methods at the lab
scale cannot be upscaled. To face this situation HEPAFLEX proposes to develop high-performance flexible PSCs, adaptable to multiple
contexts, by redesigning the processing approach. The project will address large-area efficiency by combining rapid photonic annealing
and large-area thin-film fabrication methods with green chemistry routes. This high thruput approach based on versatile cost-effective
flexible substrates presents an opportunity to reduce the environmental and economic impact of the cells, ensuring the versatility of use
in multiple applications, allowing for the HEPAFLEX flexible substitution strategy that will extend the effective lifetime of rigid high
power supply modules >25 years reducing current photovoltaics’ cost and carbon footprint. The development of the same unique process
will also enable pure flexible non-utility scale applications that maintain the highest efficiencies. These currently unfeasible applications
will reduce competition between different kinds of land use. The project will ensure the safety of the technology with Pb-sequestration
additive active sealants, integrated with recycling methods to reuse the materials. HEPAFLEX will establish a sustainable PV technology
based on manufacturing circularity, flexibility, versatility, replacement and recycling