用于弱电网互联的柔性直流输电系统双端构网型控制

针对常规跟网型控制下柔性直流输电系统不具备电网频率支撑能力、弱电网运行能力差的问题,提出了一种柔性直流输电系统的双端构网型控制策略。利用直流电容的动力学特性,将柔性直流输电系统模拟为同步电动机-连轴-同步发电机运行,使其具备良好的弱电网运行能力与电网主动支撑能力。在此基础上,设计了柔性直流输电系统的电网故障穿越策略。在PSCAD/EMTDC软件中进行仿真验证,结果表明所提柔性直流输电系统的双端构网型控制策略具备弱电网适应能力、快速潮流调节能力、电网频率主动支撑能力以及电网故障穿越能力。     

新型电力系统灵活性资源聚合两阶段调度优化模型

构建以新能源为主体的新型电力系统是实现碳达峰、碳中和目标的关键驱动力。传统的以可控煤电装机为主导的电源结构,转变为以强不确定性、弱可控的新能源为主体的新型电力系统,将面临着灵活性资源短缺等挑战。以提升新型电力系统灵活性为导向,提出了灵活性资源聚合两阶段调度优化模型。第一阶段模型考虑分时价格型需求响应,以净负荷波动最小为目标平滑负荷曲线;第二阶段模型考虑分段激励型需求响应市场交易机制,融合电化学储能、抽水蓄能、改造火电等灵活性资源,以系统运行成本最小为目标设计最优运行方案。最后,算例结果和场景对比表明,需求响应能够充分挖掘负荷跟随系统调节的互动能力;改造后火电机组能够降低煤耗水平,提高调节能力,加强与系统灵活性需求时空匹配;各类储能积极响应电力系统调峰,促进了新能源消纳。     

考虑源荷侧灵活性资源的风光消纳互动调控

针对大规模新能源并网导致电网调控的灵活性不足问题,考虑电网灵活性供需平衡,提出灵活性资源（FR）参与风光消纳的互动调控方法,建立规划—运行双层模型对风光消纳进行调控优化。规划层考虑FR改造成本与电压稳定性初步分配新能源安装位置与灵活性资源改造容量,运行层综合经济成本、灵活性缺失度及峰谷差值等指标协同调控源荷资源,通过混合种群迁徙算法进行多目标优化,筛选求解后的多样性方案反馈规划层,得到最优调控结果。最后,结合东北某实际电网进行仿真分析,结果表明合理配置多元化FR能改善电网的风光消纳能力及其调控灵活性,验证了所提方法的合理性和有效性。     

基于柔性多状态开关和动态重构的配电网灵活运行方法

未来电动汽车(electric vehicle, EV)以及光伏(photovoltaic, PV)在配电网中的接入比例逐渐增高,这不仅带来了复杂的不确定性问题,而且导致了配电网净负荷时空分布的不均衡,从而产生了弃光、失负荷以及潮流分布不均匀的问题。基于此,考虑电动汽车充电负荷以及光伏的不确定性,提出了一种基于柔性多状态开关(flexible multi-state switch, FMS)和动态重构的含高比例电动汽车-光伏配电网灵活运行方法。首先,基于FMS灵活功率调控和网络动态重构,构建了支撑高比例电动汽车-光伏接入的配电网灵活运行框架。其次,利用蒙特卡洛随机模拟法对各类电动汽车充电负荷以及光伏出力进行不确定性建模,建立了基于场景集以及场景缩减法的随机规划模型。然后,建立了以弃光、失负荷、FMS损耗、网损成本最小和负荷均衡度最优为目标的配电网灵活运行模型。最后,在158节点系统上通过算例验证了所提方法的有效性。     

Floating Catalyst Chemical Vapor Deposition Patterning Nitrogen-Doped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Shape Tailorable and Flexible Micro-Supercapacitors

Micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) as high-power density energy storage units are designed to meet the booming development of flexible electronics, requiring simple and fast fabrication technology. Herein, a fast and direct solvent-free patterning method is reported to fabricate shape-tailorable and flexible MSCs by floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD). The nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (N-SWCNTs) are directly deposited on a patterned filter by FCCVD with designable patterns and facilely dry-transferred on versatile substrates. The obtained MSCs deliver an excellent areal capacitance of 3.6 mF cm⁻² and volumetric capacitance of 98.6 F cm⁻³ at a scan rate of 5 mV s⁻¹ along with excellent long-term cycle stability over 125 000 circles. Furthermore, the MSCs show good performance uniformity, which can be readily integrated via connection in parallel or series to deliver a stable high voltage (4 V with five serially connected devices) and large capacitance (5.1 mF with five parallel devices) at a scan rate of 100 mV s⁻¹, enabling powering the light emitting displays. Therefore, this method blazes the trail of directly preparing flexible, shape-customizable, and high-performance MSCs.     

High-Resolution and Stable Ruddlesden–Popper Quasi-2D Perovskite Flexible Photodetectors Arrays for Potential Applications as Optical Image Sensor

The development of an efficient fabrication route to achieve high-resolution perovskite pixel array is key for large-scale flexible image sensor devices. Herein, a high-resolution and stable 10 × 10 flexible PDs array based on formamidinium(FA⁺) and phenylmethylammonium (PMA⁺) quasi-2D (PMA)₂FAPb₂I₇ (n = 2) perovskite is demonstrated by developing SiO₂-assisted hydrophobic and hydrophilic treatment process on polyethylene terephthalate substrate. By introducing Au nanoparticles (Au NPs),  the perovskite film quality is improved and grain boundaries are reduced. The mechanism by which Au NPs upgrade the photoelectric quality of perovskite is mainly revealed by glow discharge-optical emission spectroscopy (GD-OES) and grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS). To further improve the photoelectric performance of the devices, a post-treatment strategy with formamidinium chloride (FACl) is used . The optimized flexible PDs arrays show excellent optoelectronic properties with a high responsivity of 4.7 A W⁻¹, a detectivity of 6.3 × 10¹² Jones, and a broad spectral sensitivity. The device also exhibits excellent electrical stability even under severe bending and excellent flexural strength, as well as excellent environmental stability. Finally, the integrated flexible PDs arrays are used as sensor pixels in an imaging system to obtain high-resolution imaging patterns, demonstrating the imaging capability of the PDs arrays.     

Toward Flexible Embodied Energy: Scale-Inspired Overlapping Lithium-Ion Batteries with High-Energy-Density and Variable Stiffness

High performance flexible batteries are essential ingredients for flexible devices. However, general isolated flexible batteries face critical challenges in developing multifunctional embodied energy systems, owing to the lack of integrative design. Herein, inspired by scales in creatures, overlapping flexible lithium-ion batteries (FLIBs) consisting of energy storage scales and connections using LiNi_0.5Co_0.2Mn_0.3O₂ (NCM523) and graphite electrodes are presented. The scale-dermis structure ensures a high energy density of 374.4 Wh L⁻¹ as well as a high capacity retention of 93.2% after 200 charge/discharge cycles and 40 000 bending times. A variable stiffness property is revealed that can be controlled by battery configurations and deformation modes. Furthermore, the overlapping FLIBs can be housed directly into the architecture of several flexible devices, such as robots and grippers, allowing to create multifunctionalities that go far beyond energy storage and include load-bearing and variable flexibility. This study broadens the versatility of FLIBs toward energy storage structure engineering of flexible devices.     

Soft Robotic-Adapted Multimodal Sensors Derived from Entirely Intrinsic Self-Healing and Stretchable Cross-Linked Networks

Flexible sensing technologies that play a pivotal role in endowing robots with detection capabilities and monitoring their motions are impulsively desired for intelligent robotics systems. However, integrating and constructing reliable and sustainable flexible sensors with multifunctionality for robots remains an everlasting challenge. Herein, an entirely intrinsic self-healing, stretchable, and attachable multimodal sensor is developed that can be conformally integrated with soft robots to identify diverse signals. The dynamic bonds cross-linked networks including the insulating polymer and conductive hydrogel with good comprehensive performances are designed to fabricate the sensor with prolonged lifespan and improved reliability. Benefiting from the self-adhesiveness of the hydrogel, strong interfacial bonding can be formed on various surfaces, which promotes the conformable integration of the sensor with robots. Due to the ionic transportation mechanism, the sensor can detect strain and temperature based on piezoresistive and thermoresistive effect, respectively. Moreover, the sensor can work in triboelectric mode to achieve self-powered sensing. Various information can be identified from the electrical signals generated by the sensor, including hand gestures, soft robot crawling motions, a message of code, the temperature of objects, and the type of materials, holding great promise in the fields of environmental detection, wearable devices, human-machine interfacing, and robotics.     

A Self-Assembled Vertical-Gradient and Well-Dispersed MXene Structure for Flexible Large-Area Perovskite Modules

Advancing hole transport layers (HTL) to realize large-area, flexible, and high-performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is one of the most challenging issues for its commercialization. Here, a self-assembled gradient Ti₃C₂T_x MXene incorporated PEDOT:PSS HTL is demonstrated to achieve high-performance large-area PSCs by establishing half-caramelization-based glucose-induced MXene redistribution. Through this process, the Ti₃C₂T_x MXene nanosheets are spontaneously dispersed and redistributed at the top region of HTL to form the unique gradient distribution structure composed of MXene:Glucose:PEDOT:PSS (MG-PEDOT). These results show that the MG-PEDOT HTL not only offers favorable energy level alignment and efficient charge extraction, but also improves the film quality of perovskite layer featuring enlarged grain size, lower trap density, and longer carrier lifetime. Consequently, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the flexible device based on MG-PEDOT HTL is increased by 36% compared to that of pristine PEDOT:PSS HTL. Meanwhile, the flexible perovskite solar minimodule (15 cm² area) using MG-PEDOT HTL achieve a PCE of 17.06%. The encapsulated modules show remarkable long-term storage stability at 85 °C in ambient air (≈90% efficiency retention after 1200 h) and enhanced operational lifetime (≈90% efficiency retention after 200 h). This new approach shows a promising future of the self-assembled HTLs for developing optoelectronic devices.     

Flexible Transparent Bifunctional Capacitive Sensors with Superior Areal Capacitance and Sensing Capability based on PEDOT:PSS/MXene/Ag Grid Hybrid Electrodes

Flexible transparent supercapacitors (FTSs) have aroused considerable attention. Nonetheless, balancing energy storage capability and transparency remains challenging. Herein, a new type of FTSs with both excellent energy storage and superior transparency is developed based on PEDOT:PSS/MXene/Ag grid ternary hybrid electrodes. The hybrid electrodes can synergistically utilize the high optoelectronic properties of Ag grids, the excellent capacitive performance of MXenes, and the superior chemical stability of PEDOT:PSS, thus, simultaneously demonstrating excellent optoelectronic properties (T: ≈89%, R_s: ≈39 Ω sq⁻¹), high areal specific capacitance, superior mechanical softness, and excellent anti-oxidation capability. Due to the excellent comprehensive performances of the hybrid electrodes, the resulting FTSs exhibit both high optical transparency (≈71% and ≈60%) and large areal specific capacitance (≈3.7 and ≈12 mF cm⁻²) besides superior energy storage capacity (P: 200.93, E: 0.24 µWh cm⁻²). Notably, the FTSs show not only excellent energy storage but also exceptional sensing capability, viable for human activity recognition. This is the first time to achieve FTSs that combine high transparency, excellent energy storage and good sensing all-in-one, which make them stand out from conventional flexible supercapacitors and promising for next-generation smart flexible energy storage devices.