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(VT) and University of Illinois(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 18, 2012
Accession Number
ADA564495

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
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Readers

  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.