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Thiocyanate-Mediated Dimensionality Transformation of Low- Dimensional Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Claudia Esther Avalos, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren

Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskite solar cells have induced widespread research interest owing to their higher stability as compared to three-dimensional (3D) analogues. The photovoltaic performance, however, is still limited. Here, we report a perovsk ...

2022

Hole transport material, synthesis thereof, and solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Michael Bauer, Yuhang Liu

The organic small molecule 4,4',4",4"'-(5,5-dimethoxycyclopenta-1,3-diene-1,2,3,4-tetrayl)tetrakis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyhenyl)aniline (CPDA 1), shows electrochemical properties very close to spiro-OMeTAD indicating a high compatibility with PSC systems for its ...

2022

Method of modifying the structure of perovskite films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Hong Zhang

A method of modifying the structure of a perovskite film prepared on a substrate, wherein an organic or inorganic salt crown ether complex is applied on a free surface of the so-prepared perovskite film. A perovskite solar cell, wherein a perovskite layer ...

2022

Facet Engineering for Stable, Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel

Facet engineering is an important strategy for tuning the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of a crystal surface, and it also provides an effective route to improve the device performance in many fields. Complex crystal structures with rough mo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Enabling full-scale grain boundary mitigation in polycrystalline perovskite solids

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Lichen Zhao, Yuhang Liu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

There exists a considerable density of interaggregate grain boundaries (GBs) and intra-aggregate GBs in polycrystalline perovskites. Mitigation of intra- aggregate GBs is equally notable to that of interaggregate GBs as intra-aggregate GBs can also cause d ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Solar Water Splitting Using Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts Driven by High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren, Hong Zhang

Hydrogen is considered as the "holy grail" for the energy community. One of the most promising strategies to produce hydrogen is to split water using renewable energy such as solar radiation. The abundance of water and solar energy enables the potential of ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Efficient and Stable Large Bandgap MAPbBr(3) Perovskite Solar Cell Attaining an Open Circuit Voltage of 1.65 V

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas Paul Baumeler, David Lyndon Emsley, Linfeng Pan, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Yuhang Liu, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hongwei Zhu, Michael Allan Hope, Olivier Ouellette

We report on the preparation of MAPbBr(3) perovskite films of high electronic quality by applying a methylamine (MA) vapor treatment and mitigating surface defects using the amphiphilic molecular passivator, neopentylammonium chloride (NPACl). We find that ...

2022

Nanosegregation in arene-perfluoroarene pi-systems for hybrid layered Dion-Jacobson perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jovana Milic, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Algirdas Ducinskas, Lukas Pfeifer, Laura Piveteau

Layered hybrid perovskites are based on organic spacers separating hybrid perovskite slabs. We employ arene and perfluoroarene moieties based on 1,4-phenylenedimethylammonium (PDMA) and its perfluorinated analogue (F-PDMA) in the assembly of hybrid layered ...

2022

Structural and Compositional Investigations on the Stability of Cuprous Oxide Nanowire Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Linfeng Pan

Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a promising photocathode material for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. Recently, the PEC performances of Cu2O-based devices have been considerably improved by introducing nanostructures, semiconductor overlayers, and hydr ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Flexible perovskite solar cells with simultaneously improved efficiency, operational stability, and mechanical reliability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Chen Jiang, Min Chen

Although great progress is being made toward improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and the operational stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), little attention is being paid to their mechanical reliability, which is particularly important for ...

CELL PRESS2021

Function and Electronic Structure of the SnO2 Buffer Layer between the alpha-Fe2O3 Water Oxidation Photoelectrode and the Transparent Conducting Oxide Current Collector

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer

The tin oxide buffer layer between the transparent conducting oxide current collector and the hematite photoelectrode causes considerable water oxidation enhancement of that electrode. The water oxidation onset potential is lowered by 180 mV. The lifetime ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Water Stable Haloplumbate Modulation for Efficient and Stable Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang, Jovana Milic

The commercialization of perovskite solar cells is mainly limited by their operational stability. Interlayer modification by thin interface materials between the perovskite and the charge transport layers is one of the most effective methods to promote the ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Modulation of perovskite crystallization processes towards highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells with MXene quantum dot-modified SnO2

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yuhang Liu, Tian Chen, Haizhou Lu, Jaeki Jeong

Nanocrystalline tin (iv) oxide (SnO2) electron-transport layers (ETL) have shown great potential for achieving highly efficient, stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs), in particular low-temperature-processed flexible PSCs. Recently, studies have further sho ...

2021

Unravelling the Behavior of Dion-Jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites in Humid Environments

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Jovana Milic, Algirdas Ducinskas, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope

Layered hybrid halide perovskites are known to be more environmentally stable than their 3D analogues. The enhanced stability is particularly relevant for Dion-Jacobson-type layered perovskites due to their promising photovoltaic performances. However, in ...

2021

Multimodal host–guest complexation for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marko Mladenovic, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Zaiwei Wang, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Aditya Mishra, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Zhaowen Dong, Jinming Guo, Michael Allan Hope, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette, Tzu-Sen Su, Zhiwen Zhou

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskites are promising light-harvesting materials, yet stabilizing them under operating conditions without compromising optimal optoelectronic properties remains challenging. We report a multimodal host–guest complexation strat ...

Nature Research2021

Chemically tailored molecular surface modifiers for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yuhang Liu, Bitao Dong

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted intense attention based on their high power conversion efficiency and low production cost. However, due to the polycrystalline nature and the intrinsic hydrophilicity of the metal halide perovskite moieties, the ...

WILEY2021

Surface Reconstruction Engineering with Synergistic Effect of Mixed‐Salt Passivation Treatment toward Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Filippo de Angelis, Hui-Seon Kim, Bowen Yang, Yeonju Kim, Jiajia Suo

Surface passivation treatment is a widely used strategy to resolve trap-mediated nonradiative recombination toward high-efficiency metal-halide perovskite photovoltaics. However, a lack of passivation with mixture treatment has been investigated, as well a ...

2021

Efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells with very high fill factors via incorporation of star-shaped polymer

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jiabao Yang, Xiong Li, Ting Xu, Yang Li, Hong Zhang, Shilong Wang, Ziyun Wang

Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) at operating conditions remains an unresolved issue hampering its large-scale commercial deployment. Here, we report a star-shaped polymer to improve charge transport and inhibit ion migration at th ...

2021

Silica-copper catalyst interfaces enable carbon-carbon coupling towards ethylene electrosynthesis

Michael Graetzel, Yelin Hu, Reza Zamani, Xiaoyan Wang, Dan Ren, Jun Li, Ziyun Wang, Yi Xu

Membrane electrode assembly (MEA) electrolyzers offer a means to scale up CO2-to-ethylene electroconversion using renewable electricity and close the anthropogenic carbon cycle. To date, excessive CO2 coverage at the catalyst surface with limited active si ...

Nature Research2021

Spectroelectrochemical and Chemical Evidence of Surface Passivation at Zinc Ferrite (ZnFe 2 O 4 ) Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation

Michael Graetzel, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Dan Ren, Meng Xia

Recent advances in low‐cost manufacturing as well as in bulk/interface engineering have positioned zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4, ZFO) in the spotlight as a candidate material for solar water oxidation. However, the severe recombination at the reactive interface r ...

2021

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