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01 May 07:31

[ASAP] Emerging Opportunities in Lead-Free and Lead–Tin Perovskites for Environmentally Viable Photodetector Applications

by Efat Jokar, Liang Cai, Jiye Han, Edric John Cruz Nacpil, and Il Jeon

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00345
01 May 07:30

[ASAP] Photo-Crosslinkable Polymeric Coatings Providing Chemically Versatile Reactive Surfaces on Various Substrates

by Seungyeon Choi, Lane D. Yutzy, Yun Hee Ko, Jin-Kyun Lee, Jangwook P. Jung, and Myungwoong Kim

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00225
01 May 07:29

Surface n-type band bending for stable inverted CsPbI3 perovskite solar cells with over 20% efficiency

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2572-2578
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00423F, Paper
Shuo Wang, Ming-Hua Li, Yanyan Zhang, Yan Jiang, Li Xu, Fuyi Wang, Jin-Song Hu
Inverted CsPbI3 perovskite solar cells offer merits for tandem and indoor photovoltaics.
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14 Apr 08:34

[ASAP] Morphology-Controlled Vapor-Phase Nanowire Growth with Ruddlesden–Popper Lead Bromide Perovskite

by Pushpender Yadav, Kyeongdeuk Moon, Anupam Biswas, Christopher K. Herrera, Yunlu Zhang, Scott Calabrese Barton, Richard R. Lunt, Gary J. Blanchard, and Seokhyoung Kim

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00331
14 Apr 08:34

[ASAP] Two-Dimensional Hybrid Dion–Jacobson Germanium Halide Perovskites

by Congcong Chen, Xin Zhao, Yaping Gong, Yang Liu, Zhongwei Chen, Luming Zhang, Jian Chen, Zeyu Deng, Haipeng Lu, Min Luo, Pieremanuele Canepa, and Lingling Mao

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00278
14 Apr 08:32

Versatile organic photovoltaics with a power density of nearly 40 W g−1

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2284-2294
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00087G, Paper
Xiangjun Zheng, Lijian Zuo, Kangrong Yan, Shiqi Shan, Tianyi Chen, Guanyu Ding, Bowei Xu, Xi Yang, Jianhui Hou, Minmin Shi, Hongzheng Chen
Ultra-thin OPVs with record efficiency, the highest power density and tunable colors are demonstrated. The OPVs was fabricated on a 1.3 micro-meter substrate, and demonstrated a record efficiency of 17.32% and an excellent power density of 39.72 W g−1.
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14 Apr 08:32

Refined molecular microstructure and optimized carrier management of multicomponent organic photovoltaics toward 19.3% certified efficiency

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2262-2273
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00630A, Paper
Shuixing Li, Chengliang He, Tianyi Chen, Jiale Zheng, Rui Sun, Jin Fang, Yiyao Chen, Youwen Pan, Kangrong Yan, Chang-Zhi Li, Minmin Shi, Lijian Zuo, Chang-Qi Ma, Jie Min, Yujing Liu, Hongzheng Chen
Molecular microstructure and carrier management were optimized and correlated, and double-channel recombination suppression enabled a record certified efficiency of 19.3% for asymmetric acceptor-based organic photovoltaics.
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14 Apr 08:32

Translucent perovskite photovoltaics for building integration

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2212-2225
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE04137E, Paper
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D. B. Ritzer, B. Abdollahi Nejand, M. A. Ruiz-Preciado, S. Gharibzadeh, H. Hu, A. Diercks, T. Feeney, B. S. Richards, T. Abzieher, U. W. Paetzold
This work presents the scalable fabrication of micro-patterned translucent perovskite single-junction and tandem PV with optical quality suited for BIPV and introduces the novel concept of transmittance gradients for architectural individualization.
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14 Apr 08:32

Revealing the underlying solvent effect on film morphology in high-efficiency organic solar cells through combined ex situ and in situ observations

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2316-2326
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00294B, Paper
Ruijie Ma, Xinyu Jiang, Jiehao Fu, Tao Zhu, Cenqi Yan, Kexin Wu, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Gang Li
Here the aggregation behavior differences induced by solvent–material and material–material interactions are clearly revealed by the combined ex situ and in situ morphology characterization studies on representative high-efficiency OPV systems.
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14 Apr 08:32

Achieving 17.94% efficiency all-polymer solar cells by independently induced D/A orderly stacking

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2327-2337
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00186E, Paper
Jianxiao Wang, Chenyu Han, Shuguang Wen, Fuzhen Bi, Zunyuan Hu, Yonghai Li, Chunming Yang, Xichang Bao, Junhao Chu
Compatible polymer donor can effectively penetrate into D/A aggregations and independently optimize their orderly stacking to achieve highly efficient APSCs.
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03 Apr 07:31

[ASAP] Halide Containing Short Organic Monocations in n = 1–4 2D Multilayered Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Crystals

by Alla Skorokhod, Claudio Quarti, Alexandre Abhervé, Magali Allain, Jacky Even, Claudine Katan, and Nicolas Mercier

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03718
03 Apr 07:31

Environmentally friendly anti-solvent engineering for high-efficiency tin-based perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2177-2186
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00202K, Paper
Yang Su, Jia Yang, Huan Rao, Yang Zhong, Wangping Sheng, Licheng Tan, Yiwang Chen
Pioneeringly, we point out a general principle for selecting an appropriate anti-solvent. Salting-out crystallization induced by a green anti-solvent (acetic acid, HAc) has been used for the first time to fabricate Sn-based PVSCs with an efficiency of 12.78%.
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03 Apr 07:30

Alkylammonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide as a dopant in the hole-transporting layer for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2226-2238
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE04045J, Paper
Youngwoong Kim, Geunjin Kim, Eun Young Park, Chan Su Moon, Seung Joo Lee, Jason J. Yoo, Seongsik Nam, Jino Im, Seong Sik Shin, Nam Joong Jeon, Jangwon Seo
We develop a new series of ionic liquids with dual functionality as a dopant for hole transport materials and a passivator for perovskite surfaces, which enables the production of large-area solar modules with efficiencies approaching 20%.
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27 Mar 07:32

[ASAP] Examining a Year-Long Chemical Degradation Process and Reaction Kinetics in Pristine and Defect-Passivated Lead Halide Perovskites

by Parth Raval, Mohammad Ali Akhavan Kazemi, Julie Ruellou, Julien Trébosc, Olivier Lafon, Laurent Delevoye, Frédéric Sauvage, and G. N. Manjunatha Reddy

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03803
27 Mar 07:31

[ASAP] Advances in the Synthesis of Halide Perovskite Single Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications

by Jiakai Yan, Haojin Li, Mahmoud Hussein Aldamasy, Chiara Frasca, Antonio Abate, Kui Zhao, and Yue Hu

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03505
27 Mar 07:31

Elimination of unstable residual lead iodide near the buried interface for the stability improvement of perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2295-2303
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00293D, Paper
You Gao, Fumeng Ren, Derun Sun, Sibo Li, Guanhaojie Zheng, Jianan Wang, Hasan Raza, Rui Chen, Haixin Wang, Sanwan Liu, Peng Yu, Xin Meng, Jizhou He, Jing Zhou, Xiaodong Hu, Zhengping Zhang, Longbin Qiu, Wei Chen, Zonghao Liu
A pre-embedding mixed A-cation halide strategy is developed to eliminate the residual unstable PbI2 and lattice strain near the buried interface of the perovskite layer for the stability improvement of formamidinium-based perovskite solar cells.
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20 Mar 08:06

[ASAP] Influence of External Conditions on the Black-to-Yellow Phase Transition of CsPbI3 Based on First-Principles Calculations: Pressure and Moisture

by Kyoung E. Kweon, Joel Varley, Tadashi Ogitsu, Liwen F. Wan, Megan Shelby, Zhaoning Song, Randall J. Ellingson, Yanfa Yan, and Jonathan R. I. Lee

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03065
20 Mar 08:06

[ASAP] Bilayered Dion–Jacobson Hybrid Perovskite Bulk Single Crystals Constructed with Aromatic Diammonium for Ultraviolet–Visible–Near-Infrared Photodetection

by Dongying Fu, Wenjuan Jia, Shichao Wu, Junli Chang, Zhuo Chen, and Junhua Luo

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03815
20 Mar 08:06

Inorganic non-carbon supported Pt catalysts and synergetic effects for oxygen reduction reaction

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1838-1869
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03642H, Review Article
Qi Sun, Xin-Hao Li, Kai-Xue Wang, Tian-Nan Ye, Jie-Sheng Chen
In oxygen reduction reaction, Pt/C catalysts are prone to carbon corrosion, resulting in reduced activity. The use of non-carbon inorganic supports not only improves corrosion resistance, but also provides synergetic effects to increase activity and stability.
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20 Mar 08:05

Rationale for highly efficient and outdoor-stable terpolymer solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2056-2067
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00350G, Paper
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Hua Tang, Zhihui Liao, Safakath Karuthedath, Si Chen, Heng Liu, Jafar I. Khan, Maxime Babics, Wenchao Yang, Maryam Alqurashi, Yakun He, Julien Gorenflot, Jiaming Huang, Gang Li, Stefaan De Wolf, Xinhui Lu, Christoph J. Brabec, Frédéric Laquai, Shirong Lu
Our findings unveil the structure-property relations and elucidate key rules for highly efficient and outdoor-stable terpolymer photovoltaics, paving the path to commercialization.
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20 Mar 08:04

Phase transition engineering for effective defect passivation to achieve highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2045-2055
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00636K, Paper
Dohyun Kim, Hyuntae Choi, Wooteak Jung, Chanhyeok Kim, Eun Young Park, Sungryong Kim, Nam Joong Jeon, Seulki Song, Taiho Park
We suggest phase transition-induced surface passivation of alkylammonium formates for effective defect passivation of perovskite, achieving significantly improved efficiency and thermal stability.
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20 Mar 08:03

Voltage-dependent excitation dynamics in UV-absorbing organic photovoltaics with efficient charge transfer exciton emission

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1742-1751
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03548K, Paper
Quinn C. Burlingame, Xiao Liu, Melissa L. Ball, Barry P. Rand, Yueh-Lin Loo
Voltage-dependent characterizations of organic solar cells with brightly-emitting charge-transfer excitons reveal excitation dynamics and trends as a function of donor molecule.
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09 Mar 09:50

3D acceptors with multiple A–D–A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1773-1782
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03902H, Paper
Hongbin Chen, Zhe Zhang, Peiran Wang, Yunxin Zhang, Kangqiao Ma, Yi Lin, Tainan Duan, Tengfei He, Zaifei Ma, Guankui Long, Chenxi Li, Bin Kan, Zhaoyang Yao, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen
Efficient 3D NFAs through central unit connection blaze a new trail in further molecular structural optimization of state-of-the-art NFAs.
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05 Mar 14:22

A perspective on the role of anions in highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1480-1501
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03682G, Perspective
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Jin Han, Alessandro Mariani, Stefano Passerini, Alberto Varzi
Highly concentrated (water-in-salt) electrolytes possess peculiar ionic interactions, solvation structure, ion transport, capability to form an SEI, etc. This perspective discusses the role of the salt anion on such properties.
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05 Mar 14:22

High-speed printing of a bulk-heterojunction architecture in organic solar cells films

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1711-1720
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03966D, Paper
Xinbi Zhao, Rui Sun, Xiaohei Wu, Meimei Zhang, Yuan Gao, Ji Wan, Jie Min
A polymer self-doping strategy can improve the high-speed processability of the active layer without compromising performance to reduce minimum sustainable price, which guide the lab-to-fab of the high coating speed printing of organic solar cells.
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05 Mar 14:19

Interfacial nanobubbles’ growth at the initial stage of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,2068-2079
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE04143J, Paper
Jinwen Yu, Kadi Hu, Zhengyi Zhang, Liang Luo, Yiwei Liu, Daojin Zhou, Fengmei Wang, Yun Kuang, Haijun Xu, Hui Li, Haohong Duan, Xiaoming Sun
The growth process of interfacial nanobubbles during the initial stage of the hydrogen evolution reaction, and their influence on the overpotential were revealed by in situ electrochemical surface plasmon resonance imaging combined with atomic force microscopy.
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27 Feb 08:51

Key components and design strategy of the membrane electrode assembly for alkaline water electrolysis

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1384-1430
DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00142C, Review Article
Lei Wan, Ziang Xu, Qin Xu, Maobing Pang, Dongcheng Lin, Jing Liu, Baoguo Wang
This review presents the state-of-the-art MEAs, including key components and the preparation technologies. Especially, the overall design strategies of MEAs are discussed to promote high-performance alkaline water electrolysis.
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21 Feb 09:09

An artificial leaf device built with earth-abundant materials for combined H2 production and storage as formate with efficiency > 10%

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1644-1661
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03215E, Paper
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Claudio Ampelli, Daniele Giusi, Matteo Miceli, Tsvetelina Merdzhanova, Vladimir Smirnov, Ugochi Chime, Oleksandr Astakhov, Antonio José Martín, Florentine Louise Petronella Veenstra, Felipe Andrés Garcés Pineda, Jesús González-Cobos, Miguel García-Tecedor, Sixto Giménez, Wolfram Jaegermann, Gabriele Centi, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Siglinda Perathoner
A major challenge for achieving the energy transition and transforming the current energy model into distributed production is the development of efficient artificial leaf devices made of earth-abundant materials for sustainable fuel production.
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10 Feb 14:01

Advanced electrocatalytic systems for enhanced atom/electron utilization

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1334-1363
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03323B, Review Article
Heng Xu, Lisong Chen, Jianlin Shi
The development of electrocatalytic systems with the enhancement of atom/electron utilization for reducing pollution and supporting sustainable human life.
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10 Feb 14:01

Intrinsically stretchable, semi-transparent organic photovoltaics with high efficiency and mechanical robustness via a full-solution process

Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16,1251-1263
DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03096A, Paper
Jiaming Huang, Zhen Lu, Jiaqi He, Hong Hu, Qiong Liang, Kuan Liu, Zhiwei Ren, Yaokang Zhang, Hongyu Yu, Zijian Zheng, Gang Li
AZO@Ag nanowire@AZO (AAA) composite stretchable transparent electrode enables full-solution-processed semi-transparent intrinsically stretchable OPV achieving record 10.90% PCE, with excellent mechanical robustness against stretch-release cycles.
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