The Clean Energy Materials Testing, Diagnosis and R&D Platform has been in trial operation since June 2021. It comprises five sub-platforms, all of which are accessible to the general public.
The chemical energy storage sub-platform comprises five systems: comprehensive testing and analysis of key chemical energy storage materials, verification of chemical energy storage devices, comprehensive testing and analysis of chemical energy storage devices, safety testing and analysis of chemical energy storage devices, and research and development of chemical energy storage technologies for future applications. The research conducted by this platform focuses on the development of chemical and physical energy storage technologies for use in advanced electronic devices, electric vehicles, smart grids, and industrial applications. These include high-performance batteries and future battery technologies. The chemical energy storage sub-platform has established five systems that can operate and provide services independently. Alternatively, they can be jointly developed and tested and verified to form a complete testing and diagnostic system. This system integrates material synthesis, device development, and high-level multi-scale comprehensive analysis and testing methods.
The objective of the physical energy storage sub-platform is to conduct precise measurements and analyses of the thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of cooling and heating storage units and systems.
It is capable of large-scale synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation of advanced cooling and heating materials, including nanocomposite phase-change materials. Furthermore, it facilitates breakthroughs in understanding and solutions for interfacial thermal resistance, corrosion and cross-scale enhanced heat transfer, as well as the management, optimization and integration of dynamic nonlinear energy.
The application areas that it is designed to address include solar thermal power generation, smart buildings, supercritical compressed air, thermal storage peak shaving, and so forth. Furthermore, it encourages the advancement of theoretical systems that integrate a multitude of disciplines, including energy science, materials science, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and advanced manufacturing.
solar cell sub-platform is divided into three systems: a comprehensive testing and analysis system for thin-film solar cell materials and devices, a comprehensive testing and analysis system for advanced silicon-based solar cell materials and devices, and a comprehensive testing and analysis system for multi-junction high-efficiency solar cell materials and devices. They focus on ‘low-cost large-area thin-film solar cells, including dye-sensitised, perovskite, copper-indium-gallium-selenide, copper-zinc-tin-sulphide and other new thin-film cells’,‘conventional crystalline silicon cells, black silicon cells, HIT cells (commonly known as heterojunction cells), PERC cells (emitter and rear-passivated cells), ion-implanted cells, etc.’and ‘high-efficiency III-V compound solar cells, including III-V triple-junction, quadruple-junction laminated solar cells, concentrated solar cells, high-efficiency flexible solar cells, etc.’.
The solid-state lighting sub-platform is a comprehensive testing and analysis sub-platform for solid-state lighting materials and devices. Its focus is on the comprehensive testing, analysis and judgement of epitaxial materials and device physics, as well as the optimisation of device preparation processes. This encompasses a comprehensive range of LED materials and device systems, including GaN-based ultraviolet, blue, green, and white light-emitting diodes (LEDs), InGaAsP quaternary red, yellow, and yellow-green LEDs, and AlGaAs-based infrared LEDs. Additionally, it engages in the development of novel LED materials and device technologies with prospective applications, employing diverse device structures, including regular, inverted, and vertical configurations.
The main function of the clean energy synchrotron radiation photon source research sub-platform is to provide technical support for users of the clean energy platform through the advanced Beijing synchrotron radiation photon source. It collaborates with Beijing synchrotron radiation photon source technicians to develop bespoke beamlines, sample environments and sample stages for energy storage, energy conversion and high-efficiency energy utilization. Additionally, it coordinates and facilitates user engagement on the platform in conducting standardized research techniques, data analysis and database construction through the utilization of advanced characterization techniques with synchrotron radiation photon sources.
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