• openAccess   2D-Self-Assembled Organic Materials in Undoped Hole Transport Bilayers for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Sonsona, Isaac G.; Carrera, Manuel; Más-Montoya, Miriam; S. Sánchez, Rafael; Serafini, Patricio; Barea, Eva M; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Curiel, David American Chemical Society (2023-05-10)
      Interfaces between photoactive perovskite layer and selective contacts play a key role in the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The properties of the interface can be modified by the introduction of molecular ...
    • openAccess   A Perovskite Photovoltaic Mini-Module-CsPbBr3 Photoelectrochemical Cell Tandem Device for Solar-Driven Degradation of Organic Compounds 

      Lee, Seul-Yi; Serafini, Patricio; Masi, Sofia; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; Mesa, Camilo A.; Rodriguez-Pereira, Jhonatan; Gimenez, Sixto; Lee, Hyo Joong; Mora-Sero, Ivan American Chemical Society (2023-10-02)
      Recently, halide perovskites have been widely explored for high-efficiency photocatalysis or photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells. Here, in order to make an efficient photoanode electrode for the degradation of pollutants, ...
    • openAccess   Accelerating the Assessment of Hysteresis in Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Hernández-Balaguera, Enrique; Bisquert, Juan American Chemical Society (2024)
      Halide perovskite materials have reached important milestones in the photovoltaic field, positioning them as realistic alternatives to conventional solar cells. However, unavoidable kinetic phenomena have represented a ...
    • openAccess   An artificial leaf device built with earth-abundant materials for combined H-2 production and storage as formate with efficiency > 10% 

      Ampelli, Claudio; Giusi, Daniele; Miceli, Matteo; Merdzhanova, Tsvetelina; Smirnov, Vladimir; Chime, Ugochi; Astakhov, Oleksandr; Martín, Antonio José; Veenstra, Florentine; Garcés Pineda, Felipe Andrés; González-Cobos, Jesús; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Gimenez, Sixto; Jaegermann, Wolfram; Centi, Gabriele; Pérez-Ramírez, Javier; Galan-Mascaros, Jose Ramon; Perathoner, Siglinda Royal Society of Chemistry (2023-02-15)
      A major challenge for achieving energy transition and transforming the current energy model into distributed production is the development of efficient artificial leaf-type devices capable of directly converting carbon ...
    • openAccess   Beyond Protocols: Understanding the Electrical Behavior of Perovskite Solar Cells by Impedance Spectroscopy 

      Ghahremanirad, Elnaz; Almora Rodríguez, Osbel; Suresh, Sunil; Drew, Amandine A.; Chowdhury, Towhid; Uhl, Alexander R. Wiley (2023-08-11)
      Impedance spectroscopy (IS) is an effective characterization technique used to probe and distinguish charge dynamics occurring at different timescales in optoelectronic and electric devices. With the rapid rise of research ...
    • openAccess   Electrochemical reduction of HMF to synthesize added value compounds using CuAg electrodes 

      Carvajal, David; Bolos-Sánchez, Victoria; Solera Rojas, Jose; Mejuto, Carmen; Fabregat-Santiago, Francisco; Mas, Elena Elsevier (2023-12-16)
      In biorefining, Green electrochemistry offers an intelligent approach to produce valuable chemicals that are not derived from fossil fuels. In this study, we demonstrate the electrochemical reduction of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural ...
    • closedAccess   Enhanced efficiency and stability in Sn-based perovskite solar cells by trimethylsilyl halide surface passivation 

      Zhang, Zheng; Wang, Liang; Kumar Baranwal, Ajay; Sahamir, Shahrir Razey; Kapil, Gaurav; Sanehira, Yoshitaka; Kamarudin, Muhammad Akmal; Nishimura, Kohei; Ding, Chao; Liu, Dong; Li, Yusheng; Li, Hua; Chen, Mengmeng; Shen, Qing; Ripolles, Teresa S.; Bisquert, Juan; Hayase, Shuzi Elsevier (2022-05-13)
      Lead free tin perovskite solar cells (PKSCs) are the most suitable alternative candidate for conventional lead perovskite solar cells. However, the efficiency and the stability are insufficient, mainly because of the poor ...
    • closedAccess   Facile fabrication of heterostructured BiPS4-Bi2S3-BiVO4 photoanode for enhanced stability and photoelectrochemical water splitting performance 

      Naji Shaddad, Maged; Arunachalam, Prabhakarn; Hezam, Mahmoud; BinSaeedan, Norah M.; Gimenez, Sixto; Bisquert, Juan; Al-Mayouf, Abdullah Elsevier (2023-02)
      Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) is the most favorable electrode candidate for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting reactions. The poor charge separation and sluggish water oxidation dynamics are, however, the major setbacks ...
    • openAccess   First Experimental Evidence of Amorphous Tin Oxide Formation in Lead-Free Perovskites by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry 

      Mannino, Giovanni; Sanchez-Diaz, Jesus; Smecca, Emanuele; Valastro, Salvatore; Deretzis, Ioannis; S. Sánchez, Rafael; MARTINEZ PASTOR, JUAN CARLOS; Mora-Sero, Ivan; ALBERTI, ALESSANDRA Wiley (2023)
      The most promising lead-free options for producing perovskite solar cells are tin halide perovskite materials. Herein, while in situ monitoring the optical evolution of the material in humid air, spectroscopic ellipsometry ...
    • openAccess   Fully Inkjet-Printed Green-Emitting PEDOT:PSS/NiO/Colloidal CsPbBr3/SnO2 Perovskite Light-Emitting Diode on Rigid and Flexible Substrates 

      Vescio, Giovanni; Mathiazhagan, Gayathri; Gonzalez-Torres, Sergio; Sanchez-Diaz, Jesus; Villanueva Antoli, Alexis; Sánchez, Rafael S.; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; Oszajca, Marek; Linardi, Flavio; Hauser, Alina; Vinocour-Pacheco, Felipe A.; Żuraw, Wiktor; Öz, Senol; Hernández, Sergi; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Cirera, Albert; Garrido, Blas Wiley (2023)
      After establishing themselves as promising active materials in the field of solar cells, halide perovskites are currently being explored for fabrication of low-cost, easily processable, and highly efficient light-emitting ...
    • openAccess   Highly Durable Nanoporous Cu2–xS Films for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis under Mild pH Conditions 

      Fernandez-Climent, Roser; Redondo, Jesús; García-Tecedor, Miguel; Spadaro, Maria Chiara; Li, Junnan; Chartrand, Daniel; Schiller, Frederik; Pazos, Jhon; Hurtado, Mikel F.; de la Peña O'Shea, Víctor Antonio; Kornienko, Nikolay; Arbiol, Jordi; Barja, Sara; Mesa, Camilo A.; Gimenez, Sixto American Chemical Society (2023-08-04)
      Copper-based hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts are promising materials to scale-up hydrogen production due to their reported high current densities; however, electrode durability remains a challenge. Here, we report a ...
    • openAccess   Hysteresis in Organic Electrochemical Transistors: Distinction of Capacitive and Inductive Effects 

      Bisquert, Juan American Chemical Society (2023-12-14)
      Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are effective devices for neuromorphic applications, bioelectronics, and sensors. Numerous reports in the literature show persistent dynamical hysteresis effects in the current–voltage ...
    • openAccess   Impact of core-shell perovskite nanocrystals for LED applications: successes, challenges, and prospects 

      Das Adhikari, Samrat; Gualdrón Reyes, Andrés Fabián; Paul, Subir; Torres, Jeevan; Escuder, Beatriu; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Masi, Sofia The Royal Society of Chemistry (2023-07-24)
      Perovskite nanocrystals (PeNCs) synthesized by colloidal solution methods are an outstanding case of study due to their remarkable optical features, different from their bulk counterpart, such as a tuneable band gap and ...
    • closedAccess   Impact of Scan Rate and Mobile Ion Concentration on the Anomalous J-V Curves of Metal Halide Perovskite-Based Memristors 

      Pérez-Martínez, José Carlos; Martín Martín, Diego; Del Pozo, Gonzalo; Arredondo, Belén; Guerrero, Antonio; Romero, Beatriz Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2023-08)
      Bias voltage scan rate and mobile ion concentration have a strong influence in J-V curves of metal halide perovskite-based memristors. In addition to hysteresis, in some cases J-V curves also show an anomalous drop in ...
    • openAccess   Ionic Field Screening in MAPbBr3 Crystals Revealed from Remnant Sensitivity in X-ray Detection 

      Alvarez, Agustin; Lédée, Ferdinand; García-Batlle, Marisé; López Varo, Pilar; Gros-Daillon, Eric; Mayén Guillén, Javier; Verilhac, Jean-Marie; Lemercier, Thibault; Zaccaro, Julien; Marsal, Lluis F.; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà; Almora Rodríguez, Osbel American Chemical Society (2023-05-03)
      Research on metal halide perovskites as absorbers for X-ray detection is an attractive subject due to the optimal optoelectronic properties of these materials for high-sensitivity applications. However, the contact degradation ...
    • 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   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, ...
    • openAccess   Microwave-Mediated Synthesis of Lead-Free Cesium Titanium Bromide Double Perovskite: A Sustainable Approach 

      Reyes-Francis, Emmanuel; Echeverría-Arrondo, Carlos; Esparza, Diego; López-Luke, Tzarara; Soto-Montero, Tatiana; Morales-Masis, Monica; Turren Cruz, Silver Hamill; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Julian-Lopez, Beatriz American Chemical Society (2024-02-02)
      Theoretical studies have identified cesium titanium bromide (Cs2TiBr6), a vacancy-ordered double perovskite, as a promising lead-free and earth-abundant candidate to replace Pb-based perovskites in photovoltaics. Our ...
    • openAccess   Multicomponent Approach for Stable Methylammonium-Free Tin–Lead Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Turren Cruz, Silver Hamill; Pascual, Jorge; Hu, Shuaifeng; Sanchez-Diaz, Jesus; Galve Lahoz, Sergio; Liu, Wentao; Hempel, Wolfram; Chirvony, Vladimir; Martinez-Pastor, Juan P.; Boix, Pablo P; Wakamiya, Atsushi; Mora-Sero, Ivan American Chemical Society (2024-02-09)
      Mixed tin–lead perovskites suffer from several degradation pathways that hinder their effective implementation in tandem photovoltaic technologies. The main challenge involves removing the thermally unstable methylammonium ...