Publications by Matthew Thomas Mayer

Function and Electronic Structure of the SnO2 Buffer Layer between the alpha-Fe2O3 Water Oxidation Photoelectrode and the Transparent Conducting Oxide Current Collector

The tin oxide buffer layer between the transparent conducting oxide current collector and the hematite photoelectrode causes considerable water oxidation enhancement of that electrode. The water oxidation onset potential is lowered by 180 mV. The lifetime ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Yimeng Ma

Water oxidation is the key kinetic bottleneck of photoelectrochemical devices for fuel synthesis. Despite advances in the identification of intermediates, elucidating the catalytic mechanism of this multi-redox reaction on metal-oxide photoanodes remains a ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Elucidation of photovoltage origin and charge transport in Cu2O heterojunctions for solar energy conversion (vol 3, pg 2633, 2019)

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer

2019

Elucidation of photovoltage origin and charge transport in Cu2O heterojunctions for solar energy conversion

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer

Heterojunctions between p-type cuprous oxide (Cu2O) and suitable n-type layers stand out as some of the best performing and abundant oxide photoabsorbers currently available for the generation of hydrogen with photoelectrochemical cells or conversion of so ...

2019

Boosting the performance of Cu2O photocathodes for unassisted solar water splitting devices

Linfeng Pan, Jinhyun Kim, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Amita Ummadisingu, Minkyu Son

Although large research efforts have been devoted to photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting in the past several decades, the lack of efficient, stable and Earth-abundant photoelectrodes remains a bottleneck for practical application. Here, we report a ...

2018

Enhanced charge carrier mobility and lifetime suppress hysteresis and improve efficiency in planar perovskite solar cells

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz

2018

Low-Temperature Nb-Doped SnO2 Electron-Selective Contact Yields over 20% Efficiency in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Jingshan Luo, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jiyoun Seo, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Ludmilla Steier, Elham Halvani Anaraki

2018

Solution-Processed Cu2S Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Linfeng Pan, Weiwei Zhang, Minkyu Son, Yuxiang Yu

2018

Photoelectrochemical deposition of CoP on cuprous oxide photocathodes for solar hydrogen production

Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Lucas-Alexandre Stern, Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive and sustainable energy conversion method. In this work, cobalt phosphide (CoP) is photoelectrochemically deposited on a p-type cuprous oxide (pCu(2)O) photocathode for solar hydrogen production. U ...

Elsevier2017

Spectroelectrochemical analysis of the mechanism of (photo)electrochemical hydrogen evolution at a catalytic interface

Michael Graetzel, Florian Le Formal, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Stanley David Tilley

Multi-electron heterogeneous catalysis is a pivotal element in the ( photo) electrochemical generation of solar fuels. However, mechanistic studies of these systems are difficult to elucidate by means of electrochemical methods alone. Here we report a spec ...

Springer Nature2017