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Functionalized Phenyl Methanaminium Salts Provide Highly Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Andreas Züttel, Liping Zhong

One of the leading approaches to enhancing the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) involves passivating the perovskite surface and grain boundaries with large ammonium salts. Here, we report the synthesis of furan-, thiophene-, and s ...

2025

Low CO2 mass transfer promotes methanol and formaldehyde electrosynthesis on cobalt phthalocyanine

Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong

Cobalt phthalocyanine supported on carbon nanotubes (CoPcCNT) usually catalyzes the electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) to CO, although several reports have also indicated methanol formation. Herein, by analyzing the effects of CoPc loading and CO2 partial pre ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Graphene membranes with pyridinic nitrogen at pore edges for high-performance CO2 capture

Andreas Züttel, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Heng-Yu Chi, Marina Micari, Xuekui Duan, Shuqing Song, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li

Membranes based on a porous two-dimensional selective layer offer the potential to achieve exceptional performance to improve energy efficiency and reduce the cost for carbon capture. So far, separation from two-dimensional pores has exploited differences ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Enhancing the Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Using Chemical Bath Deposition of SnO2 Electron Transport Layers and 3D/2D Heterojunctions

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez, Hiroyuki Kanda, Liping Zhong

Chemical bath deposition (CBD) is an effective technique used to produce high-quality SnO2 electron transport layers (ETLs) employed in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). By optimizing the CBD process, high-quality SnO2 films are obtained with minimal oxygen v ...

2024

Atom-by-atom design of Cu/ZrOx clusters on MgO for CO2 hydrogenation using liquid-phase atomic layer deposition

Jeremy Luterbacher, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Liping Zhong, Seongmin Jin

The difficulty of synthesizing uniform atomically precise active sites limits our ability to engineer increasingly more active heterogeneous catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. Here we design Cu/ZrOx clusters on MgO with near atomic precisi ...

2024

All Platinum Group Metal-Free and Durable Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Platinum group metal-free catalysts (e.g., Fe-N-C and Co-N-C) are used as hydrogen peroxide reduction reaction (PRR) catalysts in direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs). Fe-N-C is more active in the PRR and demonstrates high performance at the beginning of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Solvent- and catalyst-free reduction of CO2 with ammonia borane

Andreas Züttel, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Ammonia borane (AB) has been extensively studied as a solid-state hydrogen storage material. On the other hand, its reactivity with CO2 is still unclear, especially in the solid state. By carefully controlling the CO2 pressure and temperature, AB efficient ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Kangning Zhao, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

A fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface for improving the discharge duration in aqueous Al-air batteries

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei, Meixia Zhang

Herein, a fluoropolymer bifunctional solid membrane interface (SMI) for an aqueous Al-air battery is proposed, which inhibits anodic self-corrosion, while concurrently reducing the accumulation of undesirable by-products. A battery using the SMI exhibits a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Graphene nanoplatelets promoted CoO-based catalyst for low temperature CO2 methanation reaction

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko, Liping Zhong

Methanation of CO2 is an important reaction for reducing CO2 emissions in a power-to-gas system. Compared to cobalt supported on gamma-Al2O3, cobalt supported on graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) showed significantly better performance for CO2 methanation. Cob ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023