Roll-to-Roll Advanced Materials Manufacturing DOE Laboratory Collaboration - Early Stage R&D: Phase 2 and FY21 (Final Report)
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- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Energetics Incorporated, Washington, DC (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
R2R processing is used to manufacture a wide range of products for various applications which span many industrial business sectors. The overall R2R methodology has been in use for decades and this continuous technique traditionally involves deposition of material(s) onto substrates or membranes that are on moving webs, carriers or other continuous belt-fed or conveyor-based processes that enable successive steps to build a final product. Established methods that typify R2R processing include tape casting, silk-screen printing, reel-to-reel vacuum deposition/coating, and R2R lithography. Products supported by R2R manufacturing include micro-electronics, electro-chromic window films, PVs, fuel cells for energy conversion, battery electrodes and electrolytes for energy storage, and barrier and membrane materials for decarbonization and air and water filtration. Due to innovation in materials and process equipment, high-quality yet very low-cost multilayer technologies have the potential to be manufactured on a very cost-competitive basis. To move energy-related products from high-cost niche applications to the commercial sector, the means must be available to enable manufacture of these products in a cost-competitive manner. Fortunately, products such as fuel cells, thin- and mid-film PVs, batteries, electrochromic and piezoelectric films, water separation membranes, and other energy saving technologies readily lend themselves to manufacture using R2R approaches. However, more early-stage research is needed to solve the challenge of linking the materials (particles, polymers, solvents, additives) used in ink and slurry formulations and the coating and heated drying processes to the ultimate performance of the final R2R product, especially for a process that uses multiple layers of deposition to achieve the end product.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 2301640
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2022/2499
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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