A High Throughput Experimentation Pipeline for the Discovery of Solar Fuels Materials
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John Gregoire(Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, CALTECH)
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Description
The High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) project of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP, http://solarfuelshub.org/) performs accelerated discovery of new earth-abundant photoabsorbers and electrocatalysts for solar fuels applications. We have designed and built high-throughput pipelines for the synthesis, screening and characterization of photoelectrochemical materials. On the synthesis side, the pipelines employ a combination of complementary synthesis techniques: 1. ultra-high throughput printing of precursor libraries followed by reactive annealing and 2. direct synthesis of photoelectrochemical material libraries through physical vapor deposition. To establish composition-property-performance trends within these libraries, a suite of parallel and serial screening instruments have been developed, providing an unprecedented combination of experiment throughput and data quality. The pipelines also include automated implementations of standard material characterization techniques and custom data management infrastructure.
This material is based upon work performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993.
