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Integration of Metal Meshes as Transparent Conducting Electrodes into Perovskite Solar Cells

Andreas Schueler, Jakob Heier, René Uwe Schneider, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

As the demand for photovoltaic technologies continues to grow, the quest for efficient and sustainable transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) rapidly rises. Traditional solutions, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), face challenges related to indium scarcity ...

Wiley2024

Stable MXene Dough with Ultrahigh Solid Fraction and Excellent Redispersibility toward Efficient Solution Processing and Industrialization

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Shungui Deng

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides, and/or nitrides, so-called MXenes, have triggered intensive research interests in applications ranging from electrochemical energy storage to electronics devices. Producing these functional devices by printin ...

WILEY2023

Functional Ink Formulation for Printing and Coating of Graphene and Other 2D Materials: Challenges and Solutions

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh, Mohammad Jafarpour

The properties of 2D materials are unparalleled when compared to their 3D counterparts; many of these properties are a consequence of their size reduction to only a couple of atomic layers. Metallic, semiconducting, and insulating types can be found and fo ...

WILEY2022

Enhanced Room-Temperature Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in Morphology Controlled J-Aggregates

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies from organic dyes forming J-aggregates are known to exhibit narrowband photoluminescence with full-width at half maximum of approximate to 9 nm (260 cm(-1)). Applications of these high color purity emitters, however, are hampered ...

2021

Coating Porous MXene Films with Tunable Porosity for High-Performance Solid-State Supercapacitors

Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Two-dimensional MXenes with their outstanding physical and chemical properties have been extensively used in numerous fields such as electrochemical energy storage, catalysis, and sensing. In these applications, high active surface area and facilitated dif ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Towards industrialization of perovskite solar cells using slot die coating

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier

Carbon-based hole transport layer-free carbon mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (MPSCs) are considered to be cell architectures with high potential for commercialization, due to their enhanced stability. In the standard process for large area and module fa ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes): Synthesis, Properties, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

A family of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides known as MXenes has received increasing attention since the discovery of Ti3C2 in 2011. To date, about 30 different MXenes with well-defined structures and properties have been synthesized, and many mor ...

2020

Inkjet printed mesoscopic perovskite solar cells with custom design capability

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Customizable solar cells are required for aesthetic indoor and outdoor photovoltaic deployment as well as for the freedom of design of small and portable power supplies. We demonstrate that drop on demand inkjet printing can be used for the fabrication of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Nanocellulose-MXene Biomimetic Aerogels with Orientation-Tunable Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Designing lightweight nanostructured aerogels for high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is crucial yet challenging. Ultrathin cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are employed for assisting in building ultralow-density, robust, and highly f ...

2020

Exciton Dynamics and Effects of Structural Order in Morphology-Controlled J-Aggregate Assemblies

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Narrow-band photoluminescence (PL) together with high quantum efficiency from organic molecules is essential for high-color-purity emitters. Supramolecular assemblies like J-aggregates are promising materials due to their narrow PL signal with full-width a ...

2019