The Joint Research Center for Clean Energy Materials focuses on the conversion and storage of new energy. Responding to the national green and low-carbon strategy, and addressing the environmental problems that may be caused by the increasingly scarce fossil energy and its combustion, it focuses on prospective basic research with a balance of applied basic research. By solving key scientific problems involved in the process of energy conversion and storage, such as thermodynamics, energy conversion, storage, and transmission, it achieves a deep interdisciplinary integration in the field of new energy utilization and produces original and leading achievements. In this process, a multi-disciplinary research and development team with international level and influence is established by integrating the strengths of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the fields of materials, chemical engineering, environment, machinery, and power, to cultivate new energy interdisciplinary talents, and promote our future energy environment transformation and economic and social development.

Research Directions

(1) Solar cell materials

(2) Photoelectric conversion technology and system

(3) Electrochemical energy storage

(4) solar energy photothermal conversion, heat storage and photothermal utilization

(5) photothermal and conversion technology and system