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N-coordinated bimetallic defect-rich nanocarbons as highly efficient electrocatalysts in advanced energy conversion applications

Defect engineering in heterostructured carbon-based electrode materials has evolved as an emerging strategy to boost the electrocatalytic activity. Herein, a facile single-step route is reported to synthesize novel N-coordinated bimetal doped graphitic car ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

A hybrid niobium-based oxide with bio-based porous carbon as an efficient electrocatalyst in photovoltaics: a general strategy for understanding the catalytic mechanism

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sining Yun, Cheng Wang

Developing a high-performance catalyst and establishing a catalytic mechanism for understanding the catalytic activity are crucial to new generation photovoltaic technology. In this work, we present a feasible and general route to synthesize a bio-based po ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Electronic Structures and Catalytic Activities of Niobium Oxides as Electrocatalysts in Liquid-Junction Photovoltaic Devices

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sheng Meng, Sining Yun, Hang Liu

Two types of nanosized niobium oxides and their composites, pseudohexagonal Nb2O5 (TT-Nb2O5), monoclinic NbO2 (M-NbO2), and the coexistence of TT-Nb2O5 and M-NbO2 (TT-Nb2O5/M-NbO2), are successfully synthesized through the urea-metal chloride route, and th ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Dye sensitized photoelectrolysis cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sining Yun

To advance the progress of photoelectrolysis, various promising devices integrated with p- and n-type photocatalysts and dye sensitized photoelectrodes have been systematically studied. This review discusses, from theory to practice, an integration strateg ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

New-generation integrated devices based on dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Sining Yun

2018

Intrinsic Origin of Superior Catalytic Properties of Tungsten-based Catalysts in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sining Yun, Xiao Zhou, Jing Li, Yao Liu

To clarify the intrinsic factor of the superior catalytic activity of tungsten (W)-based catalysts in DSSCs, W-based compounds, including W18O49, W2N, WC, and WO3, were prepared as CEs and tested in I-/I-3(-) redox shuttle. A systematic investigation of th ...

Elsevier2017

Theoretical Treatment of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sining Yun, Xiao Zhou

Hybrid halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) giving over 22% power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) have attracted considerable attention. Although perovskite plays a significant role in the operation of PSCs, the fundamental theories associated with perovski ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017