Advanced Organic Materials for Energy and Environment

Syllabus

The course includes:

• Introduction-Description and classification of Organic Conductive Materials (HIO),
• Optical and Optoelectronic Properties of Advanced HIO,
• Basic Principles of Operation of Organic Photovoltaics,
• Correlation of Structure – Properties of Nanostructured Active Films,
• Organic Electrolytes,
• Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices,
• Mechanisms of Operation of Solid Organic Electrolytes,
• Solid State Batteries,
• Basic Principles of Fuel Cell Operation,
• Hybrid Nanomaterial Systems for Advanced Energy Production and Storage Technologies,
• Advanced Materials for Batteries Other than Lithium-Ion.

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to introduce students to contemporary issues of loose material, and more specifically to organic and polymeric materials of particular technological impact in the field of energy. More specifically, the course will introduce students to the basic principles of synthesis of Organic Conductive Materials (HIO), their optoelectronic properties and special emphasis will be given to the structure-properties correlation of nanostructured active materials for their use in: 1) innovative organic solar cells, 2) electrochemical energy storage devices and 3) fuel cells. The main axis of the course is the study of new advanced energy materials, the understanding of their properties at the nanoscale and how they affect/determine their macroscopic properties as well as the understanding of the operating mechanisms of organic energy production and storage devices. The aim of the course is for students to combine existing knowledge with what they will acquire in the course in order to deepen in modern research issues the loose material for energy production and storage. In the last part of the course, students will be asked, in collaboration with the instructor, to select and present a recent research article whose p

Recommended Bibliography

• M. Geoghegan and G. Hadziioannou, Polymer Electronics , Oxford University Press, 2013
• D. M. Santos, C.A.C Sequeira, Polymer Electrolytes, Elsevier, 2010
• M. Eikerling and A. Kulikovsky, Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Physical Principles of Materials and Operation, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015