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Enabling full-scale grain boundary mitigation in polycrystalline perovskite solids

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Yuhang Liu, Lichen Zhao

There exists a considerable density of interaggregate grain boundaries (GBs) and intra-aggregate GBs in polycrystalline perovskites. Mitigation of intra- aggregate GBs is equally notable to that of interaggregate GBs as intra-aggregate GBs can also cause d ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

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

In situ dynamic observations of perovskite crystallisation and microstructure evolution intermediated from [PbI6](4-) cage nanoparticles

Michael Graetzel, Wei Zhang, Lichen Zhao, Feng Liu, Cheng Wang, Rui Zhu, Ke Gao

Hybrid lead halide perovskites have emerged as high-performance photovoltaic materials with their extraordinary optoelectronic properties. In particular, the remarkable device efficiency is strongly influenced by the perovskite crystallinity and the film m ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Highly Efficient Metal-Free Sulfur-Doped and Nitrogen and Sulfur Dual-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Lichen Zhao, Hujiang Shen, Shilong Wang

Developing metal-free electrocatalysts with both high performance and low cost for the reduction reaction at the cathode of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is critical for further cost reduction and large-scale implementation of DSCs. Here, sulfurdoped r ...

American Chemical Society2014