The 2020 Materials Today Innovation Award to Michael Grätzel

Published:02.12.20 — Materials Today will present the 2020 Materials Today Innovation Award to Prof. Michael Grätzel for his ground-breaking work on solar energy conversion.

Michael Graetzel wins the Diels-Planck-Lecture-Award and Medal

Published:16.10.20 — Professor Michael Graetzel from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, receives this year's Diels Planck Lecture Award of KiNSIS (Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science), a priority research area of Kiel University. The interdisciplinary research association thus honors his outstanding research in the field of photochemistry.

Perovskite solar cells in the lab. Credit: W. Tress (EPFL)

Chemical innovation stabilizes best-performing perovskite formulation

Published:01.10.20 — Publishing in Science, researchers at EPFL have successfully overcome a limiting problem with stabilizing the best-performing formulation of metal-halide perovskite films, a key player in a range of applications, including solar cells.

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2020

Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI(3) perovskite solar cells

H. Lu; Y. Liu; P. Ahlawat; A. Mishra; W. R. Tress et al.

Science. 2020-10-02. Vol. 370, num. 6512, p. eabb8985. DOI : 10.1126/science.abb8985.

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Why choosing the right partner is important: stabilization of ternary Cs(y)GUA(x)FA((1-y-x))PbI(3)perovskites

A. Boziki; M. Mladenovic; M. Gratzel; U. Rothlisberger

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2020-09-28. Vol. 22, num. 36, p. 20880-20890. DOI : 10.1039/d0cp03882b.

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Unravelling the structural complexity and photophysical properties of adamantyl-based layered hybrid perovskites

F. Jahanbakhshi; M. Mladenovic; E. Kneschaurek; L. Merten; M. C. Gelvez-Rueda et al.

Journal Of Materials Chemistry A. 2020-09-14. Vol. 8, num. 34, p. 17732-17740. DOI : 10.1039/d0ta05022a.

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Blue Photosensitizer with Copper(II/I) Redox Mediator for Efficient and Stable Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

Y. Ren; N. Flores‐Díaz; D. Zhang; Y. Cao; J. Decoppet et al.

Advanced Functional Materials. 2020-09-13. Vol. 30, num. 50, p. 2004804. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202004804.

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Impact of the Synthesis Route on the Water Oxidation Kinetics of Hematite Photoanodes

C. A. Mesa; L. Steier; B. Moss; L. Francas; J. E. Thorne et al.

Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2020-09-03. Vol. 11, num. 17, p. 7285-7290. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02004.

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Highly efficient, stable and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cell based on chemical bath treated Zn2SnO4 electron transport layer

F. Sadegh; S. Akin; M. Moghadam; V. Mirkhani; M. A. Ruiz-Preciado et al.

Nano Energy. 2020-09-01. Vol. 75, p. 105038. DOI : 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105038.

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Cyclopentadithiophene-Based Hole-Transporting Material for Highly Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with Stabilized Efficiencies Approaching 21%

S. Akin; M. Bauer; R. Uchida; N. Arora; G. Jacopin et al.

Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2020-08-24. Vol. 3, num. 8, p. 7456-7463. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.0c00811.

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Formamidinium-Based Dion-Jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites: Structural Complexity and Optoelectronic Properties

M. C. Gelvez-Rueda; P. Ahlawat; L. Merten; F. Jahanbakhshi; M. Mladenovic et al.

Advanced Functional Materials. 2020-07-19. p. 2003428. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202003428.

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Compositional and Interface Engineering of Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

H. Lu; A. Krishna; S. M. Zakeeruddin; M. Grätzel; A. Hagfeldt

iScience. 2020-07-10. Vol. 23, num. 8, p. 101359. DOI : 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101359.

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High-Performance Lead-Free Solar Cells Based on Tin-Halide Perovskite Thin Films Functionalized by a Divalent Organic

M. Chen; Q. Dong; F. T. Eickemeyer; Y. Liu; Z. Dai et al.

Acs Energy Letters. 2020-07-10. Vol. 5, num. 7, p. 2223-2230. DOI : 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00888.

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