18 Jun 10:00
by Dongying Fu, Zhuo Chen, Shufang Wu, Yanli Ma, and Xian-Ming Zhang

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01010
06 May 08:08
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,3329-3337
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00349G, Communication

Open Access
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
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,3848-3854
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
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,5866-5875
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
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,3244-3269
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE03004K, Review Article

Open Access
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
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
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
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
Recently, lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have been intensively investigated for use as photoelectrodes in photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting systems, and PEC water splitting systems with LHP electrodes have shown outstanding...
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15 Apr 07:55
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

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00011
15 Apr 07:55
by Pabitra Kumar Nayak, Carlos Mora Perez, Dongyu Liu, Oleg V. Prezhdo, and Dibyajyoti Ghosh

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00290
15 Apr 07:49
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
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
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
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
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
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
by Ranran Gu, Kai Han, Jiance Jin, Hao Zhang, and Zhiguo Xia

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

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02901
18 Mar 08:30
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,2369-2380
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE04369J, Analysis

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

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

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02295
11 Jan 08:55
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17,1549-1558
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE02344C, Paper

Open Access
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
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
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
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
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

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01470
20 Dec 07:55
by Pascal Rusch, Stefano Toso, Yurii P. Ivanov, Sergio Marras, Giorgio Divitini, and Liberato Manna

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02503
18 Dec 14:01
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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