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06 May 08:08

Utilizing three-terminal, interdigitated back contact Si solar cells as a platform to study the durability of photoelectrodes for solar fuel production

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00349G, Communication
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Darci K. Collins, Zebulon G. Schichtl, Nathan T. Nesbitt, Ann L. Greenaway, Valentin D. Mihailetchi, Daniel Tune, Emily L. Warren
Demonstration of a new three-terminal semiconductor photoabsorber architecture for photoelectrochemical fuel production that enables protection of the semiconductor in the dark.
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06 May 08:08

Mitigated front contact energy barrier for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00316K, Paper
Daoyong Zhang, Biao Li, Pengjie Hang, Jiangsheng Xie, Yuxin Yao, Chenxia Kan, Xuegong Yu, Yiqiang Zhang, Deren Yang
A passivating contact structure was developed to mitigate the front contact energy barrier and hence reduce interface recombination losses in perovskite solar cells. This device structure achieved champion power conversion efficiencies of 25.7%.
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06 May 08:07

Suppressing charge recombination in a methylammonium-free wide-bandgap perovskite film for high-performance and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00666F, Paper
Qiufeng Ye, Wenzheng Hu, Junchi Zhu, Ziyu Cai, Hengkang Zhang, Tao Dong, Boyang Yu, Feiyang Chen, Xieli Wei, Bo Yao, Weidong Dou, Zebo Fang, Feng Ye, Zhun Liu, Tie Li
We employed RbI additive, constructed heterojunction, and used TOPO post-treatment for suppressing non-radiative recombination of MA-free WBG perovskite. The device showed a record PCE of 23.35%, a high VOC of 1.3 V and the impressive stability.
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29 Apr 07:42

A comparison of molecular iodine evolution on the chemistry of lead and tin perovskites

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03004K, Review Article
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Thomas Webb, Saif A. Haque
The development of new strategies which target simultaneous adsorption of corrosive iodine (I2), facilitate reduction into I and reintroduction within the crystal lattice are highly promising for addressing the longevity of perovskite-based devices.
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22 Apr 07:30

A highly crystalline donor enables over 17% efficiency for small-molecule organic solar cell

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00400K, Paper
Tao Zhang, Cunbin An, Pengqing Bi, Kaihu Xian, Zhihao Chen, Jingwen Wang, Ye Xu, Jiangbo Dai, Lijiao Ma, Guanlin Wang, Xiao-Tao Hao, Long Ye, Shaoqing Zhang, Jianhui Hou
The development of novel small-molecule donor is crucial for achieving highly efficient small-molecule organic solar cells (SM-OSCs). In this study, two small-molecule donors, B3TR and B2, were designed and synthesized....
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22 Apr 07:30

Large-area all-perovskite-based coplanar photoelectrodes for scaled-up solar hydrogen production

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE01167H, Paper
Wooyong Jeong, Gyumin Jang, Juwon Yun, Chang-Seop Jeong, Young Sun Park, Hyungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Son, Chan Uk Lee, Jeongyoub Lee, Junwoo Lee, Seongyeon Yang, Soobin Lee, Subin Moon, Jooho Moon
Large-scale solar hydrogen production is enabled by the treatment of perovskite films through additive-added antisolvent bathing, achieving a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 9.89% and an outstanding hydrogen production of 145.56 μmol h−1 cm−2.
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15 Apr 07:55

[ASAP] Color Tuning in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals via A-Site Substitution as an Alternative Method for Achieving Spectrally Stable Blue Perovskite Nanocrystal Light-Emitting Diodes

by Pui Kei Ko, Dezhang Chen, C.-H. Angus Li, Christopher Chang Sing Chan, Aleksandr Sergeev, Pengbo Ding, Davy Lam, Boyu Ouyang, Liang Guo, Kam Sing Wong, and Jonathan E. Halpert

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00011
15 Apr 07:55

[ASAP] A-Cation-Dependent Excited State Charge Carrier Dynamics in Vacancy-Ordered Halide Perovskites: Insights from Computational and Machine Learning Models

by Pabitra Kumar Nayak, Carlos Mora Perez, Dongyu Liu, Oleg V. Prezhdo, and Dibyajyoti Ghosh

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00290
15 Apr 07:49

“Freezing” intermediate phases for efficient and stable FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00865K, Paper
Muyang Chen, Tingting Niu, Lingfeng Chao, Xiaozheng Duan, Jingpei Wang, Tengfei Pan, Yajing Li, Junhan Zhang, Chenyue Wang, Biyun Ren, Lijuan Guo, Mohammad Hatamvand, Jing Zhang, Qingxun Guo, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen
Preparation of low defect density FAPbI3 perovskite thin films by adjusting the process temperature to −20 °C for high-performance perovskite solar cells.
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15 Apr 07:48

Reactive silver inks: a path to solar cells with 82% less silver

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,3218-3227
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00020J, Paper
Michael W. Martinez-Szewczyk, Steven J. DiGregorio, Owen Hildreth, Mariana I. Bertoni
ITRPV silver consumption of standard low-temperature and high-temperature paste as compared to reactive silver ink. As little as 16.4 mg of silver is consumed when a busbarless cell is metallized with reactive silver ink.
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15 Apr 07:48

Cyano-functionalized pyrazine: an electron-deficient unit as a solid additive enables binary organic solar cells with 19.67% efficiency

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00764F, Paper
Lijun Tu, Hao Wang, Weixu Duan, Ruijie Ma, Tao Jia, Top Archie Dela Peña, Yongmin Luo, Jiaying Wu, Mingjie Li, Xiaomin Xia, Siqi Wu, Kai Chen, Yue Wu, Yulin Huang, Kun Yang, Gang Li, Yongqiang Shi
A strong electron-deficient unit CNPz as a solid additive was developed in PTQ10/m-BTP-PhC6 binary organic solar cells. A high PCE of 19.67% was achieved with a significant increase of the JSC and FF (81.8%).
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25 Mar 08:31

Achieving superior oxygen evolution of perovskite via phase transition and electrochemical reconstruction strategy

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04338J, Paper
Yi-ru Hao, Hui Xue, Jing Sun, Niankun Guo, Tianshan Song, Hongliang Dong, Zhonglong Zhao, Jiangwei Zhang, Limin Wu, Qin Wang
We propose a strategy of phase transformation and electrochemical reconstruction to improve the OER performance of perovskite oxides. The RuSA-Co3O4/CoOOH catalyst exhibits an ultra-low overpotential of 175 mV at 10 mA cm−2, superior to previously reported perovskite-derived OER electrocatalysts.
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25 Mar 08:30

Collaborative regulation strategy of donor and acceptor analogues realizes multifunctional semitransparent organic solar cells with excellent comprehensive performance

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2825-2836
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04476A, Paper
Xuexiang Huang, Xinyuan Ren, Yujun Cheng, Youhui Zhang, Zhe Sun, Sangjin Yang, Seoyoung Kim, Changduk Yang, Feiyan Wu, Lie Chen
We propose a collaborative regulation strategy of donor and acceptor analogues to develop multi-functional ST-OSCs with highly comprehensive performance.
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18 Mar 08:32

[ASAP] Surfactant-Assisted Synthesis of Hybrid Copper(I) Halide Nanocrystals for X-ray Scintillation Imaging

by Ranran Gu, Kai Han, Jiance Jin, Hao Zhang, and Zhiguo Xia

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00020
18 Mar 08:32

[ASAP] Disorder and Halide Distributions in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals as Seen by Colloidal 133Cs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

by Marcel Aebli, Christoph J. Kaul, Nuri Yazdani, Franziska Krieg, Caterina Bernasconi, Dominic Guggisberg, Malwina Marczak, Viktoriia Morad, Laura Piveteau, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, René Verel, Vanessa Wood, and Maksym V. Kovalenko

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02901
18 Mar 08:30

Supply risk considerations for photoelectrochemical water splitting materials

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2369-2380
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04369J, Analysis
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Martin Hillenbrand, Christoph Helbig, Roland Marschall
Absorber materials for photoelectrochemical water splitting have supply risks emerging from supply, demand, concentration, and political risks.
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26 Feb 08:41

[ASAP] Materials Design for Photocatalytic CO2 Conversion to C2+ Products

by Saira Man, Wenbin Jiang, Xuecheng Guo, Olim Ruzimuradov, Shavkat Mamatkulov, Jingxiang Low, and Yujie Xiong

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02368
26 Feb 08:39

Vapor phase deposition of perovskite photovoltaics: short track to commercialization?

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1645-1663
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03273F, Perspective
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Tobias Abzieher, David T. Moore, Marcel Roß, Steve Albrecht, Jared Silvia, Hairen Tan, Quentin Jeangros, Christophe Ballif, Maximilian T. Hoerantner, Beom-Soo Kim, Henk J. Bolink, Paul Pistor, Jan Christoph Goldschmidt, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Samuel D. Stranks, Juliane Borchert, Michael D. McGehee, Monica Morales-Masis, Jay B. Patel, Annalisa Bruno, Ulrich W. Paetzold
While perovskite-based photovoltaics is progressing toward commercialization, it remains an open question which fabrication technology – solution-based, vapor-based, or combinations – will pave the way to faster economic breakthrough.
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26 Feb 08:37

A high-efficiency and stable organic solar cell with balanced crystallization kinetics

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2182-2192
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04169G, Paper
Weichao Zhang, Yaochang Yue, Rongsheng Yang, Yingyu Zhang, Wenna Du, Guanghao Lu, Jianqi Zhang, Huiqiong Zhou, Xuning Zhang, Yuan Zhang
In this work, we present a conceptual strategy based on multi-acceptor components to realize balanced crystallization kinetics in organic solar cells (OSC) that deliver a 19.35% power conversion efficiency with superior photostability.
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26 Feb 08:35

High-efficiency unbiased water splitting with photoanodes harnessing polycarbazole hole transport layers

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2541-2553
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03353H, Paper
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Jin Wook Yang, Su Geun Ji, Chang-Seop Jeong, Jaehyun Kim, Hee Ryeong Kwon, Tae Hyung Lee, Sol A Lee, Woo Seok Cheon, Seokju Lee, Hyungsoo Lee, Min Sang Kwon, Jooho Moon, Jin Young Kim, Ho Won Jang
The conformal heterojunction of a competent hole transport layer onto the nanoporous BiVO4 photoanode is highly challenging, despite its promise for unbiased photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting.
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26 Feb 08:35

Future environmental impacts of global hydrogen production

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03875K, Paper
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Shijie Wei, Romain Sacchi, Arnold Tukker, Sangwon Suh, Bernhard Steubing
We quantified the life-cycle environmental impacts of H2 production at the regional and global levels for the first time.
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11 Jan 12:24

[ASAP] Photo-Crosslinkable Naphthalene Diimide Polymer for Solution-Processed n–i–p Perovskite Solar Cells

by Yangwei Shi, Declan P. McCarthy, Dominique Lungwitz, Fangyuan Jiang, Margherita Taddei, Hannah Contreras, Yujing Lin, Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Kan Tang, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Antoine Kahn, Seth R. Marder, and David S. Ginger

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02295
11 Jan 08:55

A universal ligand for lead coordination and tailored crystal growth in perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1549-1558
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02344C, Paper
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Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Dmitry Bogachuk, Waldemar Kaiser, Clemens Baretzky, Oussama Er-Raji, Georgios Loukeris, Asma A. Alothman, Edoardo Mosconi, Markus Kohlstädt, Uli Würfel, Filippo De Angelis, Anders Hagfeldt
Phenylguanidine, a strong ligand in the precursor solution, retards crystallization to enlarge grain sizes and reduce defect density of a perovskite film, demonstrating excellent universality across various compositions.
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04 Jan 09:24

Bi-molecular kinetic competition for surface passivation in high-performance perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1570-1579
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03439A, Paper
Yinyi Ma, Faming Li, Jue Gong, Lina Wang, Xiao Tang, Peng Zeng, Pok Fung Chan, Weidong Zhu, Chunfu Zhang, Mingzhen Liu
A bi-molecular kinetic competitive adsorption strategy was proposed to circumvent the dimensional structural transformation which has been widely observed on the film surface passivated by conventional methods.
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03 Jan 08:20

Discerning rise time constants to quantify charge carrier extraction in perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1229-1243
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02013D, Paper
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Sandheep Ravishankar, Lennard Kruppa, Sandra Jenatsch, Genghua Yan, Yueming Wang
A method is developed to extract the rise time constant from frequency domain data of perovskite solar cells, which determines the charge extraction efficiency. The results show a good agreement with those obtained from time domain measurements.
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20 Dec 15:04

Towards 26% efficiency in inverted perovskite solar cells via interfacial flipped band bending and suppressed deep-level traps

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1153-1162
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03435F, Paper
Yiting Zheng, Yaru Li, Rongshan Zhuang, Xueyun Wu, Congcong Tian, Anxin Sun, Chen Chen, Yongsheng Guo, Yong Hua, Ke Meng, Kai Wu, Chun-Chao Chen
Minimizing interfacial recombination loss in inverted perovskite solar cells is achieved by introducing piperazinium diiodide (PDI) as a surface modifier to passivate deep surface defects and adjust the interface band bending.
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20 Dec 07:55

[ASAP] A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach to Understanding CdS Pigment Oxidation in a Renowned Early 20th Century Painting

by Selma Mayda, Letizia Monico, Dileep Krishnan, Steven De Meyer, Marine Cotte, Jan Garrevoet, Gerald Falkenberg, Irina CA Sandu, Bart Partoens, Dirk Lamoen, Aldo Romani, Costanza Miliani, Johan Verbeeck, and Koen Janssens

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01470
20 Dec 07:55

[ASAP] Nanocrystal Heterostructures Based On Halide Perovskites and Lead–Bismuth Chalcogenides

by Pascal Rusch, Stefano Toso, Yurii P. Ivanov, Sergio Marras, Giorgio Divitini, and Liberato Manna

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02503
18 Dec 14:02

Enhancing the electrical transport properties of two-dimensional semiconductors through interlayer interactions

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,611-618
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03454B, Paper
Qinghang Tang, Shihao Han, Mingjia Yao, David J. Singh, Jinyang Xi, Huijun Liu, Jiong Yang
Thermoelectric materials attract great attention due to promising applications in refrigeration and waste heat recovery.
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18 Dec 14:01

Crystallization dynamics and stabilization of FAPbI3 single-phase perovskite

Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1407-1415
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02404K, Paper
Weiwei Zuo, Weifei Fu, Ke Wang, Chittarajan Das, Mahdi Malekshahi Byranvand, Kai-Li Wang, Aditya Chaudhary, Jaekeun Lim, Meng Li, Michael Saliba
In a stable external environment, a slow crystallization rate fosters a stable lattice of pure “black”-phase perovskite, while post treatment at the grain boundaries enhance overall grain stability, contributing to long-term stability.
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