Publications by Kazuteru Nonomura

Effect of TiO2 Photoanodes Morphology and Dye Structure on Dye-Regeneration Kinetics Investigated by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Gunther Wittstock

The dye regeneration in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is improved by optimizing the charge separation at the level of the sensitized semiconductor treatment of the mesoporous electrode by TiCl4 that passivates the surface for back electron transfer re ...

2020

Zinc Phthalocyanine Conjugated Dimers as Efficient Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells

Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Bowen Yang, Brian Irving Carlsen, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Natalie Flores Diaz, Desiré Molina Alcaide

Four ZnPc-dimers with 2,5-thienyl (ZnPc-th-ZnPc 1), 2,7-fluorenyl (ZnPc-flu-ZnPc 2), 3,6-bisthienylldiketopyrrolopyrrole (ZnPc-DPP-ZnPc 3) and 1,4-phenyl (ZnPc-p-ZnPc 4) bridges have been studied as dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) in perovsk ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Passivation Mechanism Exploiting Surface Dipoles Affords High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Thomas La Grange, Fatemeh Ansari, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura

The employment of 2D perovskites is a promising approach to tackling the stability and voltage issues inherent in perovskite solar cells. It remains unclear, however, whether other perovskites with different dimensionalities have the same effect on efficie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Blocking the Charge Recombination with Diiodide Radicals by TiO2 Compact Layer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura

The addition of a compact titanium dioxide (TiO2) layer between the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) coated glass substrate and the mesoporous TiO2 layer in the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) based on the iodide/triiodide redox couple (I-/I-3(-)) is known t ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2019

Triarylamine-based hydrido-carboxylate rhenium(i) complexes as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Thomas Moehl, Kazuteru Nonomura, Lorenzo Veronese

Two new dyes based on a dinuclear rhenium complex and (E)-3-(5-(4-(bis(2,4-dibutoxy-[1,1-biphenyl]-4-yl)amino)phenyl)thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (namely D35) have been investigated as sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Two different ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Diverging surface reactions at TiO2- or ZnO-based photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Gunther Wittstock

Fast recombination of electrons from semiconductors with the oxidized redox species in the electrolyte represents a major bottleneck in the improvement of ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). While processes at the semiconductor-electrolyte interf ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Toward an alternative approach for the preparation of low-temperature titanium dioxide blocking underlayers for perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Lichen Zhao, Su Htike Aung

The anodic electrodeposition method is investigated as an alternative technique for the preparation of a titanium oxide (TiO2) blocking underlayer (UL) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Extremely thin Ti-IV-based films are grown from aqueous acidic titani ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Interfacial Engineering of Metal Oxides for Highly Stable Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

Oxides employed in halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have already demonstrated to deliver enhanced stability, low cost, and the ease of fabrication required for the commercialization of the technology. The most stable PSCs configuration, the carbon-base ...

WILEY2018

Novel Blue Organic Dye for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieving High Efficiency in Cobalt-Based Electrolytes and by Co-Sensitization

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jiahuan Zhang, Kazuteru Nonomura, Yan Hao, Yasemin Saygili, Anna Eriksson, Enrico Polanski

Blue and green dyes as well as NIR-absorbing dyes have attracted great interest because of their excellent ability of absorbing the incident photons in the red and near-infrared range region. A novel blue D-pi-A dye (Dyenamo Blue), based on the diketopyrro ...

2016

Spectral splitting photovoltaics using perovskite and wideband dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Antonio Abate, Fabrizio Giordano, Kazuteru Nonomura

The extension of the light absorption of photovoltaics into the near-infrared region is important to increase the energy conversion efficiency. Although the progress of the lead halide perovskite solar cells is remarkable, and high conversion efficiency of ...

Nature Publishing Group2015