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Radical polymeric p-doping and grain modulation for stable, efficient perovskite solar modules

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

High-quality perovskite light harvesters and robust organic hole extraction layers are essential for achieving high-performing perovskite solar cells (PSCs). We introduce a phosphonic acid???functionalized fullerene derivative in mixed-cation perovskites a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Tautomeric mixture coordination enables efficient lead-free perovskite LEDs

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Haizhou Lu, Lukas Pfeifer, Virginia Carnevali, Lorenzo Agosta

Lead halide perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have demonstrated remarkable optoelectronic performance1-3. However, there are potential toxicity issues with lead4,5 and removing lead from the best-performing PeLEDs-without compromising their high ex ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Mitigating the Heterointerface Driven Instability in Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Mathias Dankl, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Anurag Krishna

Metal halide perovskites have thepotential to revolutionizethefield of photovoltaics, though limited stability has impeded commercialexploitation. The soft heterointerface between the perovskite andcharge-transporting layer is one of the major bottlenecks ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Hydroxamic acid pre-adsorption raises the efficiency of cosensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang, Jiajia Suo

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) convert light into electricity by using photosensitizers adsorbed on the surface of nanocrystalline mesoporous titanium dioxide (TiO2) films along with electrolytes or solid charge-transport materials(1-3). They possess ma ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Thermally controlled growth of photoactive FAPbI(3) films for highly stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Cyril Cayron, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

We employ flash infrared annealing to investigate the phase transition of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI(3)) thin films for their solar cell applications. Measuring the enthalpy changes of the FAPbI(3) composition at different heating rates allows us ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Molecularly Engineered Low-Cost Organic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: The Substituent Effect on Non-fused Three-Dimensional Systems

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Brian Irving Carlsen, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo

In this work, we describe a new class of non-fused 3D asymmetric compounds (named 1, 2, 3, and 4) as low-cost organic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The fundamental understanding of the influence of the methylthio and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Solid-state synthesis of CdFe2O4 binary catalyst for potential application in renewable hydrogen fuel generation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Clean energy is highly needed at this time when the energy requirements are rapidly increasing. The observed increasing energy requirement are largely due to continued industrialization and global population explosion. The current means of energy source is ...

Nature Portfolio2022

CNT-based bifacial perovskite solar cells towards highly efficient 4-terminal tandem photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Fan Fu, Hongwei Zhu, Chunyang Zhang

Carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) are recognized as low-cost stable photovoltaics. However, currently most highly efficient C-PSCs are optically opaque, which means that they can only utilize direct illumination but cannot efficiently utilize th ...

2022

Perovskite Materials and Devices

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

This special collection presents research articles and reviews on the preparation of new perovskite and perovskite-related materials, and various aspects of their physicochemical properties as well as case studies on the development and characterization of ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Revisiting the Impact of Morphology and Oxidation State of Cu on CO2 Reduction Using Electrochemical Flow Cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

Electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a flow electrolyzer represents a promising carbon-neutral technology with efficient production of valuable chemicals. In this work, the catalytic performance of polycrystalline copper (Cu), Cu2O-derived copper (O ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

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

A universal co-solvent dilution strategy enables facile and cost-effective fabrication of perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Dan Ren, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Hong Zhang, Anurag Krishna, Tzu-Sen Su

Cost management and toxic waste generation are two key issues that must be addressed before the commercialization of perovskite optoelectronic devices. We report a ground-breaking strategy for eco-friendly and cost-effective fabrication of highly efficient ...

Nature Research2022

Revealing fundamentals of charge extraction in photovoltaic devices through potentiostatic photoluminescence imaging

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dmitry Bogachuk, Yuhang Liu

The photocurrent density-voltage (J(V)) curve is the fundamental characteristic to assess opto-electronic devices, in particular solar cells. However, it only yields information on the performance inte-grated over the entire active device area. Here, a met ...

ELSEVIER2022

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enables NMR of Surface Passivating Agents on Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope, Lukas Pfeifer

Surface and bulk molecular modulators are the key to improving the efficiency and stability of hybrid perovskite solar cells. However, due to their low concentration, heterogeneous environments, and low sample mass, it remains challenging to characterize t ...

2022

Conformal quantum dot-SnO2 layers as electron transporters for efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Haizhou Lu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jaeki Jeong

Improvements to perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have focused on increasing their power conversion efficiency (PCE) and operational stability and maintaining high performance upon scale-up to module sizes. We report that replacing the commonly used mesoporous ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Kinetics and energetics of metal halide perovskite conversion reactions at the nanoscale

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger

Metal halide to perovskite phase conversion is a facile approach for synthesizing high-quality perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. Here, these reactions are investigated at the nanoscale via in-situ x-ray scattering, revealing links ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Jun Li

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Photoelectrochemical Oxygen Evolution on Mesoporous Hematite Films Prepared from Maghemite Nanoparticles

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nathália Carolina Verissimo

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

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

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