Projects

The project, which was funded by the Free State of Thuringia, was co-financed by the European Union as part of the Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The project, which was funded by the Free State of Thuringia, was co-financed by the European Union as part of the Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Result: The project was part of a joint project aimed at developing textile dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) for mobile power supply from renewable energies. In this context, OMPG realized the necessary coatings.

In addition to textile sealing, research and development focused primarily on coating with gel electrolytes. The various processing phases were run through, starting with ensuring the wetting of the surfaces with the coating agent through chemical variation of the formulations, the transition from rigid to flexible substrates and scaling up with the testing of doctor blades and slot-die coating. When coating using a linear coating system, areas of more than 500 cm² could be produced. In cooperation with the FSU Jena, completely new special polymers were also made available for wet coating and solar cell testing.

Comprehensive investigations, solubility and incompatibility tests and trials of various formulations based on ionic liquids (IL) made up a large part of this work. The OMPG also made a valuable contribution to the structural characterization of solar electrodes and coatings using light and scanning electron microscopy, which was used, for example, to analyse defects in coatings before and after mechanical stress.

The project, which was funded by the Free State of Thuringia, was co-financed by the European Union as part of the Regional Development Fund (ERDF).