Solid Energy System Technology Center (Group Cluster)
Introduction

Solid Energy System Technology Center focuses on energy conversion and storage device. Major research areas: key materials and technology of high-energy solid state lithium battery, multivalent metal battery technology, high energy, high power and long lifespan energy storage devices, system integration and demonstration of the electrochemical energy storage, perovskite solar cells and modules.

Director of Center/Group
Prof. CUI Guanglei
Professor; Director of Advanced Energy Storage Technology Division, Leader of Solid Energy System Technology Center. His research focuses on low-cost and highly efficient energy-storage and conversion materials and devices such as high-energy solid lithium battery, low-cost rechargeable batteries based on the multi-electrons, perovskite solar cell. He has published more than 300 papers on peer-reviewed journals of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Adv. Mater.、Adv. Energy Mater.、Energy Environ. Sci.、Coordin. Chem. Rev.、Prog. Polym. Sci., et al., and filed more than 200 invention patents, among which 97 have been authorized. The as developed high-energy solid state lithium battery has been demonstration on deep-sea equipment as the power supply. He was awarded as the First Prize of Qingdao Nature Science in 2018 and First Prize of Shandong Provincial Nature Science in 2018.
Research Groups
Group Name Leader 
Advanced Solid Batteries Group Prof. DONG Shanmu
Perovskite Solar Cells Group Prof. PANG Shuping
Solid Energy Materials Engineering Technology Group Prof. WANG Xiaogang
Solid Energy Devices Engineering Technology Group Prof. HAN Pengxian
Solid Energy System Integration Technology Group Prof. WU Tianyuan 
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Research Interest
1. Key materials and technology of high-energy solid state lithium battery       
2. Low-cost rechargeable batteries based on the multi-electrons             
3. High energy, high power and long lifespan energy storage devices                    
4. Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules          

Research Fields
1. Key materials and technology of high-energy solid state lithium battery (Electrode Materials,Solid Electrolyte,Engineering technology, System integration technology);                    
2. Low-cost rechargeable batteries based on the multi-electrons (Magnesium Batteries,Zinc Battery);              
3. High energy, high power and long lifespan energy storage devices (Fast-charging lithium-ion battery, Lithium ion capacitor);
4. Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules (semiconducting material, film fabrication technology, photoelectric conversion process, solar cells modules).

Representative Research
1. Solid state lithium batteries
The "rigid-flexible coupling" composited solid polymer electrolyte is designed which effectively solves the problems of single polymer electrolyte and single inorganic solid electrolyte. The as developed SSLBs utilizing the composited solid polymer electrolyte possesses outstanding characteristics of high safety, high specific energy and long life, which is the prior choice of power battery technology for new energy vehicles.

The first international industrial demonstration line has been built with an annual output of 10 MWh. The specific energy of polymer SLIBs can reach as high as 350 Wh/kg at present. The SLIBs have excellent cycle performance. Moreover, the energy density of solid lithium metal batteries based on solid polymer electrolyte can reach 520 Wh/kg, with a cycle life of more than 200 times. The SLIBs, as a specialized battery with high specific energy, high safety and high-pressure resistance, have been served as main power sources for deep-sea equipment such as Tianya, Haijiao, Wanquan, Fenghuang and Haidou, etc. The SLIBs demonstrate 10918 m deep-sea application in the Mariana Trench, and create a world record of 26 days of single diving operation. The scientific and technological achievements appraisal organized by Sinopec Federation conclude that the technology has reached the international leading level in the field of deep sea equipment. Moreover, the relevant technologies won the first prize of Natural Science of Qingdao City in 2017 and Shandong Province in 2018.

2. Perovskite Solar Cells
A new nearly cubic NH2CH=NH2PbI3 (FAPbI3) perovskite was presented for solar cells. This new FAPbI3 perovskite extremely attractive for next generation high-efficiency low-cost solar cells and now become the core material for high performance perovskite solar cells. In the research of film fabrication technology, methylamine (CH3NH2) induced defect-healing of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin films was discovered. This study represents a new direction for commercial large-scale fabrication of perovskite films which is successfully adopted by GCL for commercial fabrication of perovskite devices with a size over 2000 cm2. The side reaction in the methylammonium- and formamidinium-mixed organic cation perovskite solution was pointed out which is greatly related to the stability issue of perovskite devices.

Contact
cuigl@qibebt.ac.cn