• closedAccess   Key factors in pincer ligand design 

      Peris, Eduardo; Crabtree, Robert Royal Society of Chemistry (2018)
      Pincers, tridentate ligands that prefer a meridional geometry, are a rising class because of their distinctive combination of properties. They permit a good level of control on the nature of the coordination sphere by ...
    • openAccess   Kinetic and material properties of interfaces governing slow response and long timescale phenomena in perovskite solar cells. 

      Wang, Hongxia; Guerrero, Antonio; Bou, Agustín; Al-Mayouf, Abdullah; Bisquert, Juan Royal Society of Chemistry (2019-05-01)
      The last decade has witnessed the skyrocketing progress of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with their current world record energy conversion efficiency reaching over 24%. Nevertheless, the unsatisfactory device stability and ...
    • closedAccess   Large Grain Growth and Energy Alignment Optimization by Diethylammonium Iodide Substitution at A Site in Lead-Free Tin Halide Perovskite Solar Cells 

      zhang, zheng; Baranwal, Ajay Kumar; Sahamir, Shahrir Razey; Kapil, Gaurav; Sanehira, Yoshitaka; Chen, Mengmeng; Nishimura, Kohei; Ding, Chao; Liu, Dong; Li, Hua; Li, Yusheng; Kamarudin, Muhammad Akmal; Shen, Qing; Ripolles, Teresa S.; Bisquert, Juan; Hayase, Shuzi Wiley (2021-10-13)
      Environment-friendly tin perovskite solar cells (T-PKSCs) are the most suitable alternative candidate for lead-free PKSCs. However, the photovoltaic performance of such T-PKSCs is far below those of lead-based perovskite ...
    • openAccess   Large grain size with reduced non-radiative recombination in potassium incorporated methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells 

      Anaya Gonzalez, Gabriela Stephania; Jeronimo-Rendon, Jose J.; WANG, QIONG; Li, Guixiang; Alvarez, Agustin; Fabregat-Santiago, Francisco; Köbler, Hans; alvarado, jose alberto; Juárez Santiesteban, Hector; Turren Cruz, Silver Hamill; Saliba, Michael; Abate, Antonio Elsevier (2022-12-31)
      Organic–inorganic hybrid halide perovskites are widely considered to be one the most promising material in photovoltaic technology, the use of this semiconductor as absorbent layer in solar cells has attracted considerable ...
    • openAccess   Large-Area, Flexible, Lead-Free Sn-Perovskite Solar Modules 

      Żuraw, Wiktor; Vinocour Pacheco, Felipe Andres; Sanchez-Diaz, Jesus; Przypis, Lukasz; Mejía Escobar, Mario Alejandro; Almosni, Samy; Vescio, Giovanni; Martínez-Pastor, Juan P.; Garrido, Blas; Kudrawiec, Robert; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Öz, Senol American Chemical Society (2023)
      For the first time, large-area, flexible organic–inorganic tin perovskite solar modules are fabricated by means of an industry-compatible and scalable blade-coating technique. An 8-cell interconnected mini module with ...
    • openAccess   Laser-Reduced BiVO4 for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting 

      Barawi Morán, Mariam; Gomez-Mendoza, Miguel; Oropeza, Freddy E; Gorni , Giulio; Villar-Garcia, Ignacio J.; Gimenez, Sixto; de la Peña O'Shea, Víctor Antonio; García-Tecedor, Miguel American Chemical Society (2022-07-27)
      The present study proposes a laser irradiation method to superficially reduce BiVO4 photoelectrodes and boost their water oxidation reaction performance. The origin of this enhanced performance toward oxygen evolution ...
    • openAccess   Lead Sulfide Nanocubes for Solar Energy Storage 

      Lemsi, Amira; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; Haro, Marta; Gil Barrachina, Carlos; Aranda Alonso, Clara; Maghraoui Meherzi, Hager; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Gimenez, Sixto; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz Wiley (2020-04-23)
      Lead sulfide (PbS) nanocubes are produced by a very simple solvothermal procedure that uses a unique molecule, ethylenediamine, as solvent and capping ligand to control the size and shape of the nanocrystals. Detailed ...
    • closedAccess   Lead-free FASnI3 laser amplifiers integrated in flexible waveguides 

      Suárez, Isaac; Chirvony, Vladimir; Sánchez-Díaz, Jesús; Sánchez, Rafael S.; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Martínez-Pastor, Juan P. Optica Publishing Group (2022)
      A FASnI3 lead-free perovskite is integrated in a flexible waveguide to demonstrate Amplified Spontaneous Emission. An extremely low threshold, 1 µJ/cm2, is observed together with the formation of narrow random lasing lines ...
    • openAccess   Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Materials and Optoelectronic Devices: Progress and Prospective 

      López-Fernández, Iago; Valli, Donato; Wang, Chun-Yun; Samanta, Subarna; Okamoto, Takuya; Huang, Yi-Teng; Sun, Kun; Liu, Yang; Chirvony, Vladimir; Patra, Avijit; Zito, Juliette; De Trizio, Luca; Gaur, Deepika; Sun, Hong-Tao; Xia, Zhiguo; Li, Xiaoming; Zeng, Haibo; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Pradhan, Narayan; Martínez-Pastor, Juan P.; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Biju, Vasudevanpillai; Debnath, Tushar; Saliba, Michael; Debroye, Elke; Hoye, Robert; Infante, Ivan; Manna, Liberato; Polavarapu, Lakshminarayana Wiley (2023)
      Halide perovskites, in the form of thin films and colloidal nanocrystals, have recently taken semiconductor optoelectronics research by storm, and have emerged as promising candidates for high-performance solar cells, ...
    • closedAccess   Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Kamat, Prashant V.; Bisquert, Juan; Buriak, Jillian American Chemical Society (2017)
    • openAccess   Level Alignment as Descriptor for Semiconductor/Catalyst Systems in Water Splitting: The Case of Hematite/Cobalt Hexacyanoferrate Photoanodes 

      Hegner, Franziska; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; Gimenez, Sixto; López, Núria; Galan-Mascaros, Jose Ramon (2017-11-23)
      The realization of artificial photosynthesis may depend on the efficient integration of photoactive semiconductors and catalysts to promote photoelectrochemical water splitting. Many efforts are currently devoted to the ...
    • openAccess   Li2SnO3 branched nano- and microstructures with intense and broadband white-light emission 

      García-Tecedor, Miguel; Bartolomé, Javier; Maestre, David; Trampert, Achim; Cremades, Ana Springer Verlag (2019)
      Exploiting the synergy between microstructure, morphology and dimensions by suitable nanomaterial engineering, can effectively upgrade the physical properties and material performances. Li2SnO3 elongated nano- and ...
    • openAccess   LiFePO4 particle conductive composite strategies for improving cathode rate capability 

      Vicente-Agut, Nuria; Haro, Marta; Cíntora Juárez, Daniel; Pérez Vicente, Carlos; Tirado, José Luis; Ahmad, Shahzada; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà Elsevier (2015-05)
      Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes are one of the most promising candidates to find application in hybrid electric vehicle energy storage system. For this reason advances in the performance of its theoretical capacity ...
    • openAccess   Ligand & band gap engineering: tailoring the protocol synthesis for achieving high-quality CsPbI3 quantum dots 

      Hassanabadi, Ehsan; Latifi, Masoud; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; Masi, Sofia; YOON, SEOG JOON; Poyatos, Macarena; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz; Mora-Sero, Ivan Royal Society of Chemistry (2020)
      Hot-injection has become the most widespread method used for the synthesis of perovskite quantum dots (QDs) with enormous interest for application in optoelectronic devices. However, there are some aspects of the chemistry ...
    • openAccess   Ligand effects in the stabilization of gold nanoparticles anchored on the surface of graphene: Implications in catalysis 

      Ventura Espinosa, David; Martín Solans, Santiago; García, Hermenegildo; Mata Martínez, Jose A Elsevier (2021-01-02)
      Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) functionalized with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands immobilized ontographene are obtained via spontaneous decomposition of well-defined gold-NHC complexes by reducedgraphene oxide (rGO) ...
    • openAccess   Ligand-free synthesis of aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals and their use as optical spacers in color-tuned highly efficient organic solar cells 

      Gaceur, Meriem; Dkhil, Sadok Ben; Duché, David; Bencheikh Aboura, Fatima; Simon, Jean-Jacques; Escoubas, Ludovic; Mansour, Mahdi; Guerrero, Antonio; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà; Liu, Xianjie; Fahlmann, Mats; Dachraoui, Walid; Diallo, Abdou Karim; Videlot-Ackermann, Christine; Margeat, Olivier; Ackermann, Jörg Wiley (2016)
      The color of polymer solar cells using an opaque electrode is given by the refl ected light, which depends on the composition and thickness of each layer of the device. Metal-oxide-based optical spacers are intensively ...
    • openAccess   Light intensity modulated impedance spectroscopy (LIMIS) in all-solid-state solar cells at open-circuit 

      Almora Rodríguez, Osbel; Zhao, Yicheng; Du, Xiaoyan; Heumueller, Thomas; Matt, Gebhard Josed; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà; Brabec, Christoph J. Elsevier (2020)
      Potentiostatic impedance spectroscopy (IS) is a well-established characterization technique for elucidating the electric resistivity and capacitive features of materials and devices. For solar cells, by applying a small ...
    • openAccess   Light-induced effects on Spiro-OMeTAD films and hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells 

      S. Sánchez, Rafael; Mas, Elena Elsevier (2016)
      Perovskite (PS) solar cells have emerged as a promising technology for low-cost and efficient photovoltaics. However, the main limiting factors are related to their low long-term stability. The loss of performance of ...
    • openAccess   Light-Induced Space-Charge Accumulation Zone as Photovoltaic Mechanism in Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Zarazúa, Isaac; Bisquert, Juan; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà American Chemical Society (2016)
      We fabricated formamidinium lead iodide perovskite solar cell for analysis of the photovoltaic mechanism based on the interpretation of the capacitance variation under illumination. It was shown that the low-frequency ...
    • openAccess   Limited information of impedance spectroscopy about electronic diffusion transport: The case of perovskite solar cells 

      Bou, Agustín; Pockett, Adam; Cruanyes, Héctor; Raptis, Dimitrios; Watson, Trystan; Carnie, Matt; Bisquert, Juan American Institute of Physics (2022)
      Impedance Spectroscopy (IS) has proven to be a powerful tool for the extraction of significant electronic parameters in a wide variety of electrochemical systems, such as solar cells or electrochemical cells. However, ...