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Layered (2D) hybrid perovskites offer a promising alternative for stabilizing halide perovskite materials, with a growing interest in formamidinium (FA(+)) lead iodide derivatives for photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. While ...

WILEY2025

Defect Engineering and Crystallization Kinetics Control via Dual‐Functional Mercaptoacetamide for High‐Performance, Large‐Area Perovskite Solar Modules

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Despite the rapid development of small‐area perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the performance limitations of large‐area perovskite solar modules (PSMs) hinder their commercialization. Uncontrolled crystallization kinetics and complex environmental factors in ...

Wiley2025

A chemically bonded monolayer interface enables enhanced thermal stability and efficiency in Pb-Sn perovskite solar cells

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Advances in narrow-band-gap (NBG) mixed lead-tin (Pb-Sn) perovskites have enabled increasingly efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells, yet device stability remains limited by acidic poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) hol ...

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Supramolecular Materials from Sustainable Polyesters: Structure, Dynamics, and Performance

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The global plastic waste crisis remains a fundamental challenge for mankind to address, as vast amounts of plastic continue to accumulate in the environment, threatening ecosystems and human health. Biobased and biodegradable plastics, particularly materia ...

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Bottom-up designing nanostructured oxide libraries under a lab-on-chip paradigm towards a low-cost highly-selective E-nose

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Background: The multisensor concept has been developed as a powerful alternative to well-known gas-analytical instrumentation for applications where a fast but accurate and reliable assessment of the environment is required. The concept follows a biology-i ...

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Superstoichiometric (Al,Cr)N: Nitrogen's whereabouts and role in structure-property relationships

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The role of light elements in ceramic materials cannot be overestimated. By tuning their concentration, a whole multitude of mechanisms can be activated, directly influencing the material's functional properties. However, accurate determination of light el ...

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

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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 ...

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Designing with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV): A pathway to decarbonize residential buildings

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The ambitious targets set for greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency by 2050 demand a critical increase of building renovation rates. This challenge is shared by most Western nations, including Europe and Switzerland, where the current annual renov ...

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Interfacial toughening for high-efficiency perovskite solar modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The distinctive benefits of perovskite solar cells, such as their lightweight nature, high flexibility, and ease of deformation, have garnered significant interest. These characteristics make them well-suited for use in portable electronic devices. Neverth ...

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Visible Light-Triggered Self-Welding Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yong Ding

Flexible perovskite solar cells (F-PSCs) are highly promising for both stationary and mobile applications because of their advantageous features, including mechanical flexibility, their lightweight and thin nature, and cost-effectiveness. However, a number ...

Wiley2024

Insights Into the Role of π-Electrons of Aromatic Aldehydes in Passivating Perovskite Defects

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Carbonyl-containing aromatic ketones or aldehydes have been demonstrated to be effective defect passivators for perovskite films to improve performances of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). It has been claimed that both π-electrons within aromatic units and c ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

An elliptical nanoantenna array plasmonic metasurface for efficient solar energy harvesting

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Plasmonic metasurfaces with subwavelength nanoantenna arrays have attracted much attention for their ability to control and manage optical properties. Solar absorbers are potential candidates for effectively converting photons into heat and electricity. Th ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Nanostructured Fe2O3/CuxO heterojunction for enhanced solar redox flow battery performance

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Solar redox flow batteries (SRFB) have received much attention as an alternative integrated technology for simultaneous conversion and storage of solar energy. Yet, the photocatalytic efficiency of semiconductor-based single photoelectrodes, such as hemati ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with a Multifunctional Spiro-Based Hole Transport Material

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The widely used spiro-OMeTAD exhibits moderate interaction with the perovskite layer, which does not decrease the defect on the perovskite surface, thus limiting the photoelectric performance of perovskite solar cells. In this work, the spiro-OMeTAD struct ...

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Anchoring Charge Selective Self-Assembled Monolayers for Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells

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Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have displayed great potential for improving efficiency and stability in p-i-n perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The anchoring of SAMs at the conductiv metal oxide substrates and their interaction with perovskite materials mus ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

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The advancement to Urban 4.0 requires urban digitization and predictive maintenance of infrastructure to improve efficiency, durability, and quality of life. This study aims to integrate intelligent technologies for the predictive maintenance of photovolta ...

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Steel stresses and shear forces in reinforcing bars due to dowel action

Aurelio Muttoni, Marko Pejatovic

Reinforcing bars in structural concrete are typically designed to carry axial forces. Nevertheless, due to their bending stiffness, the bars can also carry transverse forces, that are associated with the localized bending mechanism (dowel action) resulting ...

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3D characterization of kinematic fields and poroelastic swelling near the tip of a propagating crack in a hydrogel

Damien Jean Arthur Thomas Delespaul, Danila Zubko, John Martin Kolinski, Chenzhuo Li

In fracture mechanics, polyacrylamide hydrogel has been widely used as a model material in experiments due to its optical transparency, the brittle nature of its failure, and low Rayleigh wave velocity. Indeed, linear elastic fracture mechanics has been us ...

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In vivo recording of visually evoked potentials with novel full diamond ECoG implants

Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda

Implantable neuroprosthetic devices such as electrocorticography (ECoG) and intracortical microelectrodes have the potential to restore neurological functions in disabled individuals. They constitute the direct interface with the body and require long term ...

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