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Amine modification enables selective CO2 electroreduction to ethanol via coupling of carbon-containing intermediates

Electrochemical CO2-to-ethanol conversion faces challenges due to competing ethylene formation. We demonstrate a strategy steering selectivity toward ethanol by modifying copper nanowires with N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMe). The TMe-Cu catalyst ...

2025

Polyaniline-supported copper nanocrystals for electrochemical CO2 reduction to methane

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

Achieving industrial electrochemical CO2 reduction necessitates the strategic design of electrocatalysts with high activity, superior selectivity, and excellent stability. Herein, we developed spatially dispersed copper nanocrystals supported by polyanilin ...

2025

Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao, Likai Zheng

Surface reflections and non-radiative recombinations create energy losses in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by hindering the generation and extraction of carriers. These losses can reduce device efficiency in practical applications as the incident angle of ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

Solar-driven Plastic Reforming with Co2 Conversion to Value-added Chemicals Using Bifunctional Copper Hydroxide Catalyst

Jing Gao

During coupling with carbon dioxide reduction reactions (CO2RR), plastic reforming as an effective alternative anodic reaction to replace oxygen evolution reaction (OER), offers dual benefits of reducing energy consumption and producing valuable chemicals. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Designing multi-metal-site nanosheet catalysts for CO2 photoreduction to ethylene

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

Catalysts featuring multiple active sites hold significant potential for CO2 photoconversion to multi-carbon products. However, multi-metal-site catalysts typically face challenges with low yields and selectivity for ethylene production, with a lack of def ...

2025

Electrochemical co-upgrading CO2 and glycerol for selective formate production with 190% overall Faradaic efficiency

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

The overall energy efficiency (EE) is critical for commercializing promising electrochemical technologies, such as the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR). Despite the rapid development of advanced catalysts and reactors for CO2RR, its commercial pot ...

2025

Strain-induced rubidium incorporation into wide-bandgap perovskites reduces photovoltage loss

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Ursula Röthlisberger, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Lukas Pfeifer, Jing Gao, Virginia Carnevali

A-site cation mixing can enhance the photovoltaic performance of a wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite, but rubidium (Rb) cation mixing generally forms a nonperovskite phase. We report that lattice strain locks Rb ions into the α-phase of the lattice of a triple ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Phase-stable indium sulfide achieves an energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-assisted carbon dioxide reduction to formate

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao, Jingshan Luo, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jun Li, Qixing Zhang

Tremendous efforts have been made in developing highly selective catalysts for electrochemical CO 2 conversion to formate. However, the rapid deactivation resulting from structural reconstruction and phase transition poses considerable challenges to the sy ...

Cell Press2024

Surface Passivation of FAPbI3-Rich Perovskite with Cesium Iodide Outperforms Bulk Incorporation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Jing Gao, Thomas Paul Baumeler

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown an incredible increase in efficiency, reaching as high as 25.7%, which now competes with traditional photovoltaic technologies. Herein, we excluded CsX and RbX (X = I–, Br–, Cl–), the most commonly used cations to ...

2023

Bifunctional hole-shuttle molecule for improved interfacial energy level alignment and defect passivation in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Dan Ren, Zhongjin Shen

Interface engineering in perovskite solar cells is key to high performance. Now, You et al. design an interlayer that both passivates defects and improves the energy level alignment between the perovskite and hole transport material. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023