Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems for Future AF Vehicles

Abstract

This MURI project is aimed at designing a set of new energy-harvesting and storage materials (EHSM) and their integration of load-bearing airborne structures. The EHSM that were covered are, (i) organic solar cells based on two designs ,(a) dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and (b) solid state semi-conductor polymer based solar cells(SSSPS), (ii) thermoelectric materials and modules, (iii) piezoelectrics and (iv) electromagnetic generator. This MURI team is composed of several universities, University of Washington (UW), University of Colorado(CU), UCLA, Virginia Tech (YT) and University of lllinois (UI) at UC. UW team covers energy-harvesting and storage materials, and their integration to structures and supportive electric system, CU covers mainly the hierarchical modeling of EHSM,VT covers the multi-mode energy-harvesting system, UCLA covers mainly the integration of EHSS into load-bearing structures. Finally UI covers the micro-characterization of integrated EHSM into structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 2012
Accession Number
AD1026739

Entities

People

  • Chunye Xu
  • Dan Inman
  • Gouzong Cao
  • Ioannis Chasiotis
  • Kurt Maute
  • Martin Dunn
  • Minoru Taya
  • Paolo Feraboli
  • Ronggui Yang
  • Sam Jenekhe
  • Seehee Lee
  • Sungtaek Ju
  • Thomas Hahn
  • Yasuo Kuga

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Storage
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Metallic Nanoparticles
  • Solar Cells
  • Solar Panels
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.