• closedAccess   In the Limelight: Perspective Collections on Perovskites 

      Scholes, Gregory D.; Bisquert, Juan; Forsyth, Maria; Mennucci, Benedetta; Prezhdo, Oleg; Zaera, Francisco; Zwier, Timothy; Schatz, George C. American Chemical Society (2017-08)
      In our inaugural “ In the Limelight ” Viewpoint, we revisited five high-impact papers that were published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ( JPC Letters ) in 2014, and we noted that four of the five were written ...
    • openAccess   Self-Assembly of Di-N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Gold-Adorned Corannulenes on C60 

      Mejuto, Carmen; Escobar, Luis; Guisado-Barrios, Gregorio; Ballester, Pablo; Goussev, Dmitri; Peris, Eduardo Wiley (2017-08-04)
      The deprotonation of a corannulene-based bisazolium salt allowed the preparation of a corannulene-based NHC di-AuI complex. The prepared di-AuI-complex was tested in the recognition of fullerene-C60, demonstrating good ...
    • openAccess   Cation-Driven Self-Assembly of a Gold(I)-Based Metallo-Tweezer 

      Ibáñez, Susana; Poyatos, Macarena; Peris, Eduardo Wiley (2017-08-07)
      A combination of self-complementary pi-pi-stacking interactions and metallophilic interactions triggered the self-assembly of a new digold(I) metallo-tweezer in the presence of several types of M+ ions. Titrations by ...
    • closedAccess   Enhancement of Efficiency in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells Based on CdS/CdSe/CdSeTe Heterostructure by Improving the Light Absorption in the VIS-NIR Region 

      Esparza, Diego; López-Luke, Tzarara; Oliva, Jorge; Cerdán Pasarán, Andrea; Martínez-Benítez, Alejandro; Mora-Sero, Ivan; De la Rosa, Elder Elsevier (2017-09-01)
      In this work, we demonstrate an enhancement of photocurrent in QDSSCs based on CdS (QDs)/CdSe Quantum rods (QRs)/CdSeTe (QDs) heterostructure due to the increased photon harvesting in the VIS-NIR region. The photo-conversion ...
    • openAccess   Tunable hysteresis effect for perovskite solar cells 

      Rong, Yaoguang; Hu, Yue; Ravishankar, Sandheep; huawei, liu; Hou, Xiaomeng; Sheng, Yusong; Mei, Anyi; Xu, Mi; Bisquert, Juan; Han, Hongwei Royal Society of Chemistry (2017-09-14)
      Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) usually suffer from a hysteresis effect in current–voltage measurements, which leads to an inaccurate estimation of the device e fficiency. Although ion migration, charge trapping/ detrapping, ...
    • openAccess   Organohalide Perovskites are Fast Ionic Conductors 

      Vicente-Agut, Nuria; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà Wiley (2017-10-11)
      Fast ionic conductors constitute a family of materials exhibiting high values of the ionic conductivity while their crystal structure remains rather rigid. Perovskite-like compounds are known to be good ionic conductors ...
    • openAccess   Cobalt Hexacyanoferrate on BiVO4 Photoanodes for Robust Water Splitting 

      Hegner, Franziska; Herraiz Cardona, Isaac; Cardenas-Morcoso, Drialys; López, Núria; Galan-Mascaros, Jose Ramon; Gimenez, Sixto (2017-11-01)
      The efficient integration of photoactive and catalytic materials is key to promoting photoelectrochemical water splitting as a sustainable energy technology built on solar power. Here, we report highly stable water splitting ...
    • openAccess   Relative Impacts of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells Based on Life Cycle Assessment 

      Alberola-Borràs, Jaume-Adrià; Vidal, Rosario; Juarez-Perez, Emilio J.; Mas, Elena; Guerrero, Antonio; Mora-Sero, Ivan Elsevier (2017-11-22)
      The environmental performance of four different device assembly procedures based on hybrid halide perovskite solar cell (PSC) were assessed from cradle to grave using life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. In addition, ...
    • openAccess   Interfaces in Perovskite Solar Cells 

      Fakharuddin, Azhar; Schmidt-Mende, Lukas; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà; Jose, Rajan; Mora-Sero, Ivan Wiley (2017-11-22)
      Rapid improvement in photoconversion efficiency (PCE) of solution processable organometallic hybrid halide based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have taken the photovoltaic (PV) community with a surprise and has extended ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   IrIII/AuI and RhIII/AuI Heterobimetallic Complexes as Catalysts for the Coupling of Nitrobenzene and Benzylic Alcohol 

      Böhmer, Maximilian; Kampert, Florian; Tan, Tristan; Guisado-Barrios, Gregorio; Peris, Eduardo; Hahn, Franz Ekkehardt American Chemical Society (2018)
      Two simple bisimidazolium salts derived from m- or p-bisimidazolebenzenes have been used as ligand precursors for the preparation of a series of heterobimetallic RhIII/AuI and IrIII/AuI complexes. All complexes have ...
    • openAccess   Insight into Photon Recycling in Perovskite Semiconductors from the Concept of Photon Diffusion 

      Ansari-Rad, Mehdi; Bisquert, Juan American Physical Society (2018)
      Photon recycling has been proven to be an important process in metal halide perovskite thin films. We propose a model of photon recycling based on the photon diffusion concept that can interpret experimental observations ...
    • closedAccess   Pyrene-Connected Tetraimidazolylidene Complexes of Iridium and Rhodium. Structural Features and Catalytic Applications 

      Gutiérrez-Blanco, Ana; Peris, Eduardo; Poyatos, Macarena American Chemical Society (2018)
      A pyrene-connected tetra-imidazolium salt has been prepared starting from commercially available 1,3,6,8-tetrabromopyrene, and used as tetra-NHC precursor in the preparation of tetranuclear Rh(I) and Ir(I) complexes. The ...
    • openAccess   Unravelling the role of vacancies in lead halide perovskite through electrical switching of photoluminescence 

      Li, Cheng; Guerrero, Antonio; Huettner, Sven; Bisquert, Juan Nature Research (2018)
      We address the behavior in which a bias voltage can be used to switch on and off the photoluminescence of a planar film of methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite (MAPbI3) semiconductor with lateral symmetric electrodes. ...
    • openAccess   Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells 

      Pan, Zhenxiao; Rao, Huashang; Mora-Sero, Ivan; Bisquert, Juan; Zhong, Xinhua Royal Society of Chemistry (2018)
      Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSCs) have emerged as a promising candidate for next-generation solar cells due to the distinct optoelectronic features of quantum dot (QD) light-harvesting materials, such as high ...
    • closedAccess   1H-1,2,3-Triazol-5-ylidenes: Readily Available Mesoionic Carbenes 

      Guisado-Barrios, Gregorio; Soleilhavoup, Michele; Bertrand, Guy American Chemical Society (2018)
      Classical carbenes are usually described as neutral compounds featuring a divalent carbon with only six electrons in their valence shell. It was only in 1988 that our group prepared the first isolable example, in which the ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   A Dinuclear Au(I) Complex with a Pyrene-di-N-heterocyclic Carbene Linker: Supramolecular and Catalytic Studies 

      Nuevo Vialás, Daniel; Poyatos, Macarena; Peris, Eduardo American Chemical Society (2018)
      A digold(I) complex with a pyrene-di-N-heterocyclic carbene ligand has been obtained and fully characterized. The host–guest properties of the complex were studied in chloroform with a series of polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons ...
    • closedAccess   Tetra-Au(I) Complexes Bearing a Pyrene Tetraalkynyl Connector Behave as Fluorescence Torches 

      Gutiérrez-Blanco, Ana; Fernández-Moreira, Vanesa; Gimeno, M. Concepción; Peris, Eduardo; Poyatos, Macarena American Chemical Society (2018)
      A pyrene tetraalkynyl ligand has been used for the preparation of three different tetraalkynyl Au(I) complexes. Two of these complexes display fluorescent emission in CH2Cl2 solution, with quantum yields exceeding 90%. ...
    • openAccess   Chemically Tunable Formation of Different Discrete, Oligomeric, and Polymeric Self‐Assembled Structures from Digold Metallotweezers 

      Ibáñez, Susana; Peris, Eduardo (2018)
      Digold metallotweezers whose complex supramolecular landscape is controlled by adding a series of metal cations are described. The metallotweezers have a strong tendency to form interesting supramolecular structures on ...