High-performance plastic fiber luminescent solar concentrators for flexible waveguiding photovoltaics (SolarFlex)

• Grant number: 18/07727-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2018
• End date: August 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry
• Agreement: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
• Principal Investigator: Sidney José Lima Ribeiro
• Grantee: Sidney José Lima Ribeiro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/13309-3 - High-performance plastic fiber luminescent solar concentrators for flexible waveguiding photovoltaics (SolarFlex), BP.PD

Abstract

Meter length, lightweight and flexible optically active poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) optical fibers will be used as cylindrical luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) with unprecedented concentration factors (F>10). PMMA optical fibers coated (bulk fibers) or filled (hollow-core fibers) with lanthanide ions- or dye-containing organic-inorganic hybrid layers will be fabricated and assembled in bundles. To demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach, two prototypes will be produced by coupling i) long-meter LSC and ii) LSC bundles to commercial Si PV cells. The Si PV cells figure of merit (external quantum efficiency, EQE) will be accessed. The LSCs will display an unprecedented F values one order of magnitude higher than the largest values reported so far. Conventional LSCs are usually made of rigid glass or plastics with limited flexibility, hampering its applicability. The approach proposed here has, therefore, a large potential to be a real breakthrough on the development of lightweight and mechanically flexible high-performance waveguiding photovoltaic. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ORIVES, JULIANE RESGES; VIALI, WESLEY RENATO; DESTRO, FABRICIO BENEDITO; DA SILVA, SEBASTIAO W.; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L.; NALIN, MARCELO. Embedding CoPt magnetic nanoparticles within a phosphate glass matrix. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, v. 848, p. 8-pg., 2020-12-25. (19/19609-1, 13/07793-6, 18/07727-7)

DE FREITAS, BEATRIZ DAMASIO; DOMINGOS ONISHI, BRUNO SEIKI; CAIXETA, FABIO JOSE; BORTOLETTO-SANTOS, RICARDO; RIVAS GARCIA, FRANCIS DAYAN; MESSADDEQ, YOUNES; LIMA RIBEIRO, SIDNEY JOSE. Green host urethanesil based on castor oil doped with Eu3+complex. Optical Materials, v. 138, p. 9-pg., 2023-03-21. (18/07727-7, 15/22828-6, 22/03652-8, 20/03259-9)

SANTOS, WILLY G.; BUDKINA, DARYA S.; SANTAGNELI, SILVIA H.; TARNOVSKY, ALEXANDER N.; ZUKERMAN-SCHPECTOR, JULIO; RIBEIRO, SIDNEY J. L.. Ion-Pair Complexes of Pyrylium and Tetraarylborate as New Host-Guest Dyes: Photoinduced Electron Transfer Promoting Radical Polymerization (vol 123, pg 7374, 2019). Journal of Physical Chemistry A, v. 123, n. 40, p. 1-pg., 2019-10-10. (17/01189-0, 11/51555-7, 18/07727-7, 15/22828-6, 16/50112-8)

FRIAS, ANA R.; CORREIA, SANDRA F. H.; MARTINS, MARGARIDA; VENTURA, SONIA P. M.; PECORARO, EDISON; RIBEIRO, SIDNEYJ L.; ANDRE, PAULO S.; FERREIRA, RUTE A. S.; COUTINHO, JOAO A. P.; CARLOS, LUIS D.. Sustainable Liquid Luminescent Solar Concentrators. ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS, v. 3, n. 3, MAR 2019. (18/07727-7)