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Ion-Dipole Interaction Enabling Highly Efficient CsPbI3 Perovskite Indoor Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jie Chen, Haizhou Lu, Xiaoyan Wang, Di Zhang, Ziyun Wang, Meng Li, Xingyu Gao

Metal halide perovskites are ideal candidates for indoor photovoltaics (IPVs) because of their easy-to-adjust bandgaps, which can be designed to cover the spectrum of any artificial light source. However, the serious non-radiative carrier recombination und ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction

Sophia Haussener, Raffaella Buonsanti, Etienne Boutin, Ludmilla Steier, Xiaoyan Wang, Ming Ma, Xuan Liu

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) is an attractive option for storing renewable electricity and for the sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels. In this roadmap, we review recent progress in fundamental understanding, catalyst development ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Bronze-Phase TiO2 as Anode Materials in Lithium and Sodium-Ion Batteries

Xile Hu, Xiaoyan Wang

Titanium dioxide of bronze phase (TiO2(B)) has attracted considerable attention as a promising alternative lithium/sodium-ion battery anode due to its excellent operation safety, good reversible capacity, and environmental friendliness. However, several in ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Gold-in-copper at low *CO coverage enables efficient electromethanation of CO2

Michael Graetzel, Dan Ren, Yang Li, Jun Li, Yongfeng Xie, Xiaoyan Wang, Yiping Wang, Ziyun Wang, Pengfei Ou, Yi Xu

The renewable-electricity-powered CO2 electroreduction reaction provides a promising means to store intermittent renewable energy in the form of valuable chemicals and dispatchable fuels. Renewable methane produced using CO2 electroreduction attracts inter ...

Nature Research2021

Silica-copper catalyst interfaces enable carbon-carbon coupling towards ethylene electrosynthesis

Michael Graetzel, Dan Ren, Yelin Hu, Jun Li, Reza Zamani, Xiaoyan Wang, Ziyun Wang, Yi Xu

Membrane electrode assembly (MEA) electrolyzers offer a means to scale up CO2-to-ethylene electroconversion using renewable electricity and close the anthropogenic carbon cycle. To date, excessive CO2 coverage at the catalyst surface with limited active si ...

Nature Research2021

Ba-induced phase segregation and band gap reduction in mixed-halide inorganic perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Zaiwei Wang, Jiahuan Zhang, Albert Hofstetter, Wanchun Xiang

All-inorganic metal halide perovskites are showing promising development towards efficient long-term stable materials and solar cells. Element doping, especially on the lead site, has been proved to be a useful strategy to obtain the desired film quality a ...

Nature Research2019

Thermodynamically stabilized beta-CsPbI3-based perovskite solar cells with efficiencies > 18%

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Yang Li, Xiaoyan Wang, Ying Yang, Xingyu Gao

Although beta-CsPbI3 has a bandgap favorable for application in tandem solar cells, depositing and stabilizing beta-CsPbI3 experimentally has remained a challenge. We obtained highly crystalline beta-CsPbI3 films with an extended spectral response and enha ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Ultrafast Charge Carrier Recombination and Trapping in Hematite Photoanodes under Applied Bias

Michael Graetzel, Florian Le Formal, Stanley David Tilley, Maurin Cornuz, Xiaoyan Wang

Transient absorption spectroscopy on subpicosecond to second time scales is used to investigate photogenerated charge carrier recombination in Si-doped nanostructured hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) photoanodes as a function of applied bias. For unbiased hematite, ...

American Chemical Society2014

Investigation of the role of anions in hydrotalcite for quasi-solid state dye-sensitized solar cells application

Michael Graetzel, Xiaoyan Wang

In recent research in clean energy applications, clay has gained significant interest, especially as a gelator in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), for its capability to resolve the leakage issue of liquid electrolyte. In this paper, anionic hydrotalcite ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Nanoclay Gelation Approach toward Improved Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiencies: An Investigation of Charge Transport and Shift in the TiO2 Conduction Band

Michael Graetzel, Kazuteru Nonomura, Xiaoyan Wang

Nanoclay minerals play a promising role as additives in the liquid electrolyte to form a gel electrolyte for quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells, because of the high chemical stability, unique swelling capability, ion exchange capacity, and theolo ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013