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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized by carboxylic groups: Activation of TiO2 (anatase) and phosphate olivines (LiMnPO4; LiFePO4) for electrochemical Li-storage

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Florian Le Formal

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized by carboxylic groups, exhibit better affinity towards TiO2 (P90, Degussa) as compared to that of pristine nanotubes. Also the electrochemical performance of TiO2 is improved by nanotube networking, but the Li-st ...

Elsevier2010

Photoelectrochemical Oxygen Evolution on Mesoporous Hematite Films Prepared from Maghemite Nanoparticles

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Iron oxides, especially hematite (alpha-Fe2O3), a are promising materials for applications in photoelectrochemical cells and photo-redox catalysis. However, realizing high-performance hematite photoanodes via an environmentally-friendly route remains a gre ...

2022

“Brick and Mortar” Strategy for the Formation of Highly Crystalline Mesoporous Titania Films from Nanocrystalline Building Blocks

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Sophie Wenger

We present a novel “brick and mortar” strategy for creating highly efficient transparent TiO2 coatings for photocatalytic and photovoltaic applications. Our approach is based on the fusion of preformed titania nanocrystalline “bricks” through surfactant-te ...

2009

Decoupling the effects of defects on efficiency and stability through phosphonates in stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Anand Agarwalla

Understanding defects is of paramount importance for the development of stable halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, isolating their distinctive effects on device efficiency and stability is currently a challenge. We report that adding the organic ...

CELL PRESS2021

Energy-Level and Molecular Engineering of Organic D-pi-A Sensitizers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Nuttapol Pootrakulchote

A series of organic D-pi-A sensitizers composed of different triarylamine donors in conjugation with the thienothiophene unit and cyanoacrylic acid as an acceptor has been synthesized at a moderate yield. Through tuning the number of methoxy substituents o ...

2008

Carboxymethyl cellulose nanocomposite beads as super-efficient catalyst for the reduction of organic and inorganic pollutants

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Carboxymethyl cellulose/copper oxide-nickel oxide (CMC/CuO-NiO) nanocomposite beads were prepared by facile, simple and environmentally friendlymethod. Initially, CuO-NiOwas prepared and applied for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). The resu ...

ELSEVIER2021

The Influence of Charge Transport and Recombination on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Mingkui Wang, Peter Chen

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and transient voltage decay measurements are applied to compare the performance of dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using organic electrolytes, ionic liquids and organic-hole conductors as hole transport materi ...

2009

Durable Perovskite Solar Cells with 24.5% Average Efficiency: The Role of Rigid Conjugated Core in Molecular Semiconductors

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

Efficient and robust n-i-p perovskite solar cells necessitate superior organic hole-transport materials with both mechanical and electronic prowess. Deciphering the structure-property relationship of these materials is crucial for practical perovskite sola ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Molecular-Scale Interface Engineering of Nanocrystalline Titania by Co-adsorbents for Solar Energy Conversion

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Mingkui Wang, Péter Kalman Péchy

The use of mixed self-assembled monolayers, combining hydrophobic co-adsorbents with the sensitizer, has been demonstrated to enhance the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Herein, the influence of the anchoring groups of the co-adsorbents on ...

2012

Insights about the Absence of Rb Cation from the 3D Perovskite Lattice: Effect on the Structural, Morphological, and Photophysical Properties and Photovoltaic Performance

Silvia Binet, Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Ryusuke Uchida

Efficiencies >20% are obtained from the perovskite solar cells (PSCs) employing Cs+ and Rb+ based perovskite compositions; therefore, it is important to understand the effect of these inorganic cations specifically Rb+ on the properties of perovskite struc ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Atomically Altered Hematite for Highly Efficient Perovskite Tandem Water-Splitting Devices

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells are attractive for storing solar energy in chemical bonds through cleaving of water into oxygen and hydrogen. Although hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising photoanode material owing to its chemical stability, suitable band ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

Toward an alternative approach for the preparation of low-temperature titanium dioxide blocking underlayers for perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Kazuteru Nonomura, Lichen Zhao

The anodic electrodeposition method is investigated as an alternative technique for the preparation of a titanium oxide (TiO2) blocking underlayer (UL) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Extremely thin Ti-IV-based films are grown from aqueous acidic titani ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Advanced High-Throughput Rational Design of Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Interpretable Machine Learning

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Aswani Yella

Accurately predicting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represents a crucial challenge, one that is pivotal for the high throughput rational design and screening of promising dye sensitizers. This study presents pr ...

2024

Construction of Fe3O4 bridged Pt/g-C3N4 heterostructure with enhanced solar to fuel conversion

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

In this study, we report the effects of co-catalysts of Pt nanoparticles and Fe3O4 clusters on photocatalytic behaviors of g-C3N4 (CN) and the use of the resulting photocatalyst for CO2 photoreduction to solar fuels in a flow reactor operated at room-tempe ...

ELSEVIER2022

Enhance the optical absorptivity of nanocrystalline TiO2 film with high molar extinction coefficient ruthenium sensitizers for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Mingkui Wang, Peng Wang

We report two new heteroleptic polypyridyl ruthenium complexes, coded C101 and C102, with high molar extinction coefficients by extending the pi-conjugation of spectator ligands, with a motivation to enhance the optical absorptivity of mesoporous titania f ...

2008

Guanidinium-Assisted Surface Matrix Engineering for Highly Efficient Perovskite Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chunyang Zhang

Metal halide perovskite quantum dots (Pe-QDs) are of great interest in new-generation photovoltaics (PVs). However, it remains challenging in the construction of conductive and intact Pe-QD films to maximize their functionality. Herein, a ligand-assisted s ...

Wiley2020

Complexes of a transition metal with 2,2-bipyridine ligands substituted by at least one ammonium alkyl radical, process for their fabrication and their use as redox mediator

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Complex of general formula I in which R1, R2 and R3, which may be identical or different, represent separately a linear or branched alkyl radical of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, a heterocyclic ...

(Asulab S.A., Switz.).1994

High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells: molecular engineering on D-A-pi-A featured organic indoline dyes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Magdalena Anna Marszalek

This paper reports a new D-A-pi-A organic dye WS-9, which is derived from the known dye WS-2 by incorporating an n-hexylthiophene unit into the pi-conjugation. Due to the presence of a strong electron-withdrawing benzothiadiazole unit in the pi-bridge, the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells exceeding efficiency 1% at full-sun intensity

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Peter Chen

Colloidal cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots QDs) have been prepared and exploited as inorganic dyes to sensitize a large-band-gap TiO2 layer for QD-sensitized solar cells. The optimized QD-sensitized solar cells exhibited an unprecedented incident photo ...

2008

Solar Water Splitting with Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cell and TiC-Supported Pt Nanocluster Electrocatalyst

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Jingshan Luo, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Florent Sahli, Jérémie Werner

Developing efficient, stable, and cost-effective photosystems to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight is of paramount importance for future production of fuels and chemicals from renewable sources. However, the high cost of current systems l ...

2019