THERMAL AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE LAMINATES FOR SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

摘要

Large-area, solution-processed, graphene laminates are of interest for a number of applications in renewable energy. Interest stems from their ease of preparation, by vacuum filtration of suspensions of graphene oxide [1] or exfoliated graphene flakes [2]. Over the last few years, our group has worked on two essential optimization processes of graphene laminates for solar energy and, specifically: i) investigation of their work function for efficient photocarrier collection, and ii) improvement of their thermal conductivity for efficient heat evacuation from plastic photovoltaics and mitigation of their degradation.