Publications de Nikolaos Vlachopoulos

Cuprous oxide-Shewanella mediated photolytic hydrogen evolution

Michael Graetzel, Christos Comninellis, Kevin Sivula, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Meng Xia, Linfeng Pan, Michele Morgante

However, its green production process is expensive, involving water electrolysis, which requires a significant amount of energy. New technologies have been developed to decrease the cost associated with water electrolysis, such as using microbial electroly ...

2025

Hydroxamic acid pre-adsorption raises the efficiency of cosensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Jiajia Suo, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) convert light into electricity by using photosensitizers adsorbed on the surface of nanocrystalline mesoporous titanium dioxide (TiO2) films along with electrolytes or solid charge-transport materials(1-3). They possess ma ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Molecularly Engineered Low-Cost Organic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: The Substituent Effect on Non-fused Three-Dimensional Systems

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jiajia Suo

In this work, we describe a new class of non-fused 3D asymmetric compounds (named 1, 2, 3, and 4) as low-cost organic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The fundamental understanding of the influence of the methylthio and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Experimental and theoretical study of organic sensitizers for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (s-DSSCs)

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos

The effect of a series of triarylamine based D-pi-A organic dyes, namely RK1, BA504, BA741 and the simple L1 reference dye on solid-state dye sensitized solar cells (s-DSSCs) performances was studied. The solid hole transporting material (HTM) was obtained ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

New approaches in component design for dye-sensitized solar cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

The present perspective presents a number of issues related to the current direction of DSSC research, with emphasis on the transition from iodide-containing electrolyte to charge-transport media (CTMs), electrolytes or solid-state conductors based on inor ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Microbial bioelectrochemical cells for hydrogen generation based on irradiated semiconductor photoelectrodes

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Fabian Fischer, Michele Morgante

In recent years, one of the most important challenges of the 21st century is to satisfy the ever-increasing world's energy demand. Many efforts are being undertaken to find alternative renewable energy sources, which ideally should outcompete fossil fuel u ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

The Rise of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: From Molecular Photovoltaics to Emerging Solid-State Photovoltaic Technologies

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Jovana Milic, Lukas Pfeifer, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yuhang Liu, Marko Stojanovic, Yameng Ren, Zhongjin Shen, Natalie Flores Diaz

Over the past three decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (i. e. Gratzel cells) have evolved from a pioneering concept of molecular photovoltaics to large-scale industrial deployment. In this review article, we provide a historical overview of the developmen ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Rapid hybrid perovskite film crystallization from solution

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Lukas Pfeifer, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

The use of a solution process to grow perovskite thin films allows to extend the material processability. It is known that the physicochemical properties of the perovskite material can be tuned by altering the solution precursors as well as by controlling ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

A molecular photosensitizer achieves a Voc of 1.24 V enabling highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I)-based electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Etienne Christophe Socie, Marko Stojanovic, Yameng Ren

To develop photosensitizers with high open-circuit photovoltage (Voc) is a crucial strategy to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of co-sensitized solar cells. Here, we show a judiciously tailored organic photosensitizer, coded MS5, featuring th ...

Nature Research2021

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells using polymeric hole conductors

Michael Graetzel, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos

The present review presents the application of electronically conducting polymers (conducting polymers) as hole conductors in solid-state dye solar cells (S-DSSCs). At first, the basic principles of dye solar cell operation are presented. The next section ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021