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Reference Number EP/V049046/1
Title High-Throughput Fabrication and Characterisation for Discovery of Novel Energy Materials
Status Completed
Energy Categories Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy) 10%;
Not Energy Related 80%;
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage) 10%;
Research Types Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry) 30%;
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics) 30%;
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 40%;
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Dr A A Tahir
No email address given
Engineering Computer Science and Maths
University of Exeter
Award Type Standard
Funding Source EPSRC
Start Date 01 February 2021
End Date 31 January 2023
Duration 24 months
Total Grant Value £202,191
Industrial Sectors Chemicals; Energy
Region South West
Programme NC : Infrastructure, NC : Physical Sciences
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Dr A A Tahir , Engineering Computer Science and Maths, University of Exeter (100.000%)
  Industrial Collaborator Project Contact , Johnson Matthey plc (0.000%)
Project Contact , Equinox Technical Solutions Ltd (0.000%)
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Objectives
Abstract Certainly, the most important factor needed for technological development and sustainable economic growth is the discovery and development of novel advanced functional materials. The discovery of new materials is also crucial to address today's global challenges in sustainable environment, clean energy production and storage. Efficient solar fuel (energy) production and electrochemical energy storage can only provide a sustainable pathway for true transformation to renewable energy from fossil fuel. The bottleneck which hindered this transformation is the unavailability of stable, inexpensive and highly efficient materials.The universe of candidate materials is very vast and conventional approaches to materials discovery are not likely to yield breakthrough results on a short enough time scale. The novel and low cost high-throughput experimentation proposed in this transformative project aims to accelerate the rate of new materials discovery to develop innovative technologies for energy production, storage and environmental remediation (photocatalysis). In this transformative project, Fe-based binary metal oxide with structural formula ABO2, ABO3 ABO4 and AB2O4 (where A= Alkali, alkaline earth, transition, post-transition metals and lanthanoids while B=Fe) will be the target materials. The project aims to fabricate and screen more than 60 samples per week. The Fe-based binary metal oxide exists in a range of crystal structures (Delafossite, Perovskites, Cubic and Spinel) and has exciting properties such as stability, earth abundance, inexpensive, band structure, ease in band structure modification, structure dependent conductivity and fabrication by a range of state-of-the-art techniques which make them an ideal candidate to be explored as innovative energy materials in this project. The state of the art spray pyrolysis (SP) technique will be used to deposit thin film array of samples and electrochemical measurement has been chosen for speedy and easy evaluation of energy conversion, storage and photocatalytic applications of materials.The ground-breaking nature of proposed project, which combines different elements of materials design, chemistry, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, photochemistry, reaction kinetics and device architecture is not limited to energy production, storage and environmental remediation (photocatalysis). The materials and methodology used in this transformative project, can be transferred to other fields such as sensors, photo-responsive switches, thermoelectric devices and electro-ceramics. Knowledge generation from this application-led project will have a significant economical and societal impact.
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