Publications by Ziyun Wang | EPFL Graph Search

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

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

Efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells with very high fill factors via incorporation of star-shaped polymer

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yang Li, Hong Zhang, Xiong Li, Jiabao Yang, Ting Xu, Shilong Wang, Ziyun Wang

Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) at operating conditions remains an unresolved issue hampering its large-scale commercial deployment. Here, we report a star-shaped polymer to improve charge transport and inhibit ion migration at th ...

2021

Intermediate Phase Enhances Inorganic Perovskite and Metal Oxide Interface for Efficient Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, David Lyndon Emsley, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Yuhang Liu, Jiahuan Zhang, Zaiwei Wang, Aditya Mishra, Claudia Esther Avalos

Interfacial modification is crucial to fully develop the potential of semiconductor devices, including the revolutionary halide perovskite-based optoelectronics, such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and photodetectors. The all-inorganic halide per ...

CELL PRESS2020

High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3dmetal oxidation cycle energetics

Jun Li, Likai Zheng, Yang Li, Yelin Hu, Ye Zhang, Ziyun Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhen Cao

Multimetal oxyhydroxides have recently been reported that outperform noble metal catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In such 3d-metal-based catalysts, the oxidation cycle of 3dmetals has been posited to act as the OER thermodynamic-limiting proc ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Over 20% PCE perovskite solar cells with superior stability achieved by novel and low-cost hole-transporting materials

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Chenyi Yi, Dongqin Bi, Norman Pellet, Xiong Li, Fei Zhang, Hongwei Zhu, Shilong Wang

The exploration of alternative low-cost molecular hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for both highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is a relatively new research area. Two novel HTMs using the thiophene core were designed and synthesized ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017