英国光电大奖颁给了七位钙钛矿太阳能电池学者

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英国克兰奖(The Rank Prize)创立于1972年，今年刚好是该奖项颁发50周年，是英国顶级科学奖之一，专门奖励全球在光电子科学和营养学领域作出巨大贡献的科研人员，基本每两年一次。至今，仅有“高纤之父”高锟(1978年)、约翰·霍普金斯大学游景威(1980年)、“杂交水稻之父”袁隆平和张德慈(1988年)、Ju Qiu和H. Cheng(1993年)、南京大学聂书明和多伦多大学陈志和(2006年)、王国裕和陆明莹(2008年)等屈指可数的几位华人荣获此奖。

今年的光电奖授予来自多个研究实验室的七位国际领先科学家，他们率先开发了基于钙钛矿半导体的新型太阳能电池技术，有望在太阳能的未来发挥关键作用；与此同时，今年第二十六届联合国气候变化大会将于2021年11月1日至12日在英国格拉斯哥市举办，这次授予太阳能电池领域的科学家想必是为了和能源环保气候打个配合。

如果新型太阳能电池领域能获诺奖，小编猜测Michael Graetzel、Tsutomu (Tom) Miyasaka、Henry Snaith可能获奖，两位韩国教授能不能得那就得看委员会怎么判断了！截至目前，钙钛矿太阳能电池的效率已经达到25.5%，逼近硅基的26.1%。现在看来，钙钛矿太阳能电池可能将在未来太阳能的利用上发挥重要作用。

以下为本年度光电领域各位获奖人的感言和介绍(追求原版，所以直接英文)

Professor Michael Graetzel: “I was overjoyed when I learned I was one of the recipients of the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics and wish to express my sincere congratulations to my fellow laureates. I take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to my co-workers and colleagues for their precious help in accomplishing this remarkable breakthrough and to Rank Prize for awarding this prestigious prize to myself and the other awardees.”

Dr Akihiro Kojima: “I am greatly honoured to receive the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics. I am pleased to have been involved in the early research of applying organometal halide perovskites to solar cells. It is a pleasure to share this honour with my supervisors.”

Dr Michael Lee: “Over a decade has passed since I started to work on hybrid perovskite materials for optoelectronics and I continue to be impressed at the pace of progress and sustained innovation in this field. It is wonderful news for established and early career researchers working with hybrid perovskite optoelectronics that the Rank Prize is acknowledging their exciting research area.”

Professor Tsutomu (Tom) Miyasaka: “Study of halide perovskite photovoltaics has made remarkable contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines in the intersection of chemistry and physics. It is an honour for the members who pioneered this interdisciplinary study to be selected to receive this Rank Prize award with me. I’m particularly happy that Kojima, who worked on the first experiment with me, was selected. I hope that young researchers will pioneer this field and lead to new discoveries.”

Professor Nam-Gyu Park: “It is my great honour to be an awardee of the Rank Prize. My enthusiastic journey to discover more efficient, affordable and viable photovoltaic materials and technologies brought me to the organic-inorganic halide perovskite. The discovery of perovskite solar cells was not accidental but inevitable. Since the discovery and the progress of perovskite solar cells would not be possible without my colleagues, I am pleased to share this honour with them.”

Professor Sang Il Seok: “It’s a great pleasure to be awarded the prestigious Rank Prize and I sincerely thank Rank Prize’s Optoelectronics Committee for recognising perovskite solar cells as a promising solar power harnessing technology, by giving this year’s Rank Prize award to myself and fellow researchers in the field.”

Professor Henry Snaith FRS: “It is a great honour to be awarded this prize, alongside my colleagues in the field who have contributed significantly to the discovery and advancement of perovskite solar cells. The last ten years have been an unexpected and unbelievable journey of discovery, and the next decade promises to be equally exciting, as we enable the industrialisation of perovskite photovoltaics and accelerate the global transition to carbon-free energy production.”

获奖者介绍

Professor Michael Graetzel is a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he directs the laboratory of photonics and interfaces. He received his PhD from the Technical University in Berlin in 1971. After postdoctoral training at the University of Notre Dame, USA, he joined EPFL as a Professor in 1977. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic systems and their use to generate electricity and fuels from sunlight. His dye-sensitised solar cells led to the advent of perovskite solar cells – the most exciting breakthrough in the recent history of photovoltaics. A recent ranking by Stanford University places Graetzel in the first position on top of a list of 100,000 worldwide leading scientists across all fields.

Dr Akihiro Kojima received a Master of Engineering in Photo-Optical Engineering from Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2007, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Multidisciplinary Sciences from The University of Tokyo in 2010. After graduation, he joined Peccell technologies, Inc. and started developing the flexible photovoltaic cell. In 2018, he moved to Zeon Corporation. He studied the optical properties of organic-inorganic layered perovskite compounds in 2004, and undertook research on applying organometal halide perovskites compounds to dye-sensitised solar cell as visible light sensitisers from 2005 to 2010.

Dr Michael Lee is currently the editor of Science Robotics – a multidisciplinary research journal covering the latest advances in robotics. Before joining, he was a co-founding editor of Nature Electronics where he served the journal in San Francisco, USA. Mike started his editorial career at Nature Communications in London as an associate editor handling applied physics and engineering research. Before working in scientific publishing, Mike conducted research at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European fellow and later completed his doctoral training at the University of Oxford. Mike has published research in various magazines and journals (including Science and Nature Communications) and is a named inventor on international patents.

Professor Tsutomu (Tom) Miyasaka completed the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1981 (Doctor of Engineering). He founded Peccell Technologies, Inc. in 2004 and is the CEO. He’s currently a project professor at TUY and a fellow of Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. His research specialises in photoelectrochemistry and hybrid photovoltaic cells, especially halide perovskite solar cells. His awards include: Chemical Society of Japan Award (2017), PVSEC Hamakawa Award (2017), Clarivate Analytics Citation Honor Award (2017), Japan Society of Applied Physics Achievement Award (2019), and Ichimura Academic Award (2020).

Professor Nam-Gyu Park is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1995. He joined SKKU as a full professor in 2009 after postdoctoral experiences at ICMCB-CNRS in France and NREL in the USA, and professional experiences at KIST and ETRI in Korea. In 2012, Park’s group was the first to report a long-term stable perovskite solar cell. This opened a new research area, so-called perovskite photovoltaics. The group have been undertaking research on materials and devices engineering for high efficiency perovskite solar cells. They’re developing superb efficiency perovskite solar cells along with long-term stable large-area processing technologies for commercialisation.

Professor Sang Il Seok is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering in Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. His studies are mainly focused on functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials and devices for energy harvesting. His group presented for the first time an inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite heterojunction solar cell that operates completely differently from perovskite-sensitized solar cells, which is currently one of the prototypes of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells. The device architecture devised by his group provided the basis for continuously updating the efficiency of perovskite solar cells to over 25%, surpassing those of conventional thin-film solar cells. His group holds the world record for the most efficient (25.5%) perovskite solar cell, as certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US.

Professor Henry Snaith FRS is a physicist working on new materials and devices for photovoltaic solar energy conversion. He discovered that a new type of solar cell material, perovskites, can produce extremely efficient solar cells when integrated into a simple thin-film device, which are also very easy and cheap to manufacture. He promises to deliver the next generation of improved photovoltaics for powering the world towards net zero. Henry is intimately involved in the commercialization of this technology, as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Oxford PV Ltd. Oxford PV is building the first full-scale production line based on his perovskite technology.

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