A Robotized Screening Platform for Renewable Energy Materials—Building a Pipeline and Proof of Principle Studies

Novel materials constitute the core challenge for all ambitions towards new technologies in the field of renewable energy. A grand challenge for humanity is sufficiently fast discovery of new sustainable materials to solve many of the existing societal challenges. In general, it takes an alarmingly long time to screen and discover new materials, and the time to implement new energy technologies into the commercial market from the time of discovery is in the realm of decades. This is very problematic considering the immediate demand of novel materials and efficient energy storage technologies. Consequently, accelerated discovery and development of new systems/devices are urgently required and robotized materials screening represents a promising tool to accelerate this process significantly.<br/><br/>To meet these challenges, society requires new methodologies and techniques. Our group has for many years been working on an initiative to develop a robotized platform, Poseidon, for the discovery of new materials in different application areas. This talk will present the developed robot pipeline and workflows for solar cells and batteries, as well as results from the screening.