Publications by Marcel Roland Schreier

Understanding the surface dynamics of hydrogen and CO in the electrochemical reduction of CO2

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Solar-driven reduction of CO₂ : from homogeneous to heterogeneous catalytic systems

Rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and their damaging impact on the global climate system raise doubts about the sustainability of the fossil resource based energy system. Meanwhile, raising living standards and increasing global popul ...

EPFL2017

A copper nickel mixed oxide hole selective layer for Au-free transparent cuprous oxide photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Minkyu Son

State-of-the-art cuprous oxide (Cu2O) photocathodes for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting have a long tradition of using gold (Au)-coated F-doped SnO2 (FTO) substrates for the improvement of Cu2O electrodeposition and overall PEC performance. Au i ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

All Solution-Processed, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Photocathode for Hydrogen Evolution

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Matthew Thomas Mayer

Nowadays, the efficient, stable, and scalable conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels represents a great scientific, economic, and ethical challenge. Amongst the available candidate technologies, photoelectrochemical water splitting potentially has ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Solar conversion of CO2 to CO using Earth-abundant electrocatalysts prepared by atomic layer modification of CuO

Jeremy Luterbacher, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel

The solar-driven electrochemical reduction of CO2 to fuels and chemicals provides a promising way for closing the anthropogenic carbon cycle. However, the lack of selective and Earth-abundant catalysts able to achieve the desired transformation reactions i ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

New Insights Into the Role of Imidazolium-Based Promoters for the Electroreduction of CO2 on a Silver Electrode

Michael Graetzel, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Marcel Roland Schreier, Pui Shan Genevieve Lau, Dmitry Vasilyev

The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO is a reaction of central importance for sustainable energy conversion and storage. Herein, structure activity relationships of a series of imidazolium-based cocatalysts for this reaction are described, which demon ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Polymer-based photocathodes with a solution-processable cuprous iodide anode layer and a polyethyleneimine protective coating

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Matthew Thomas Mayer

Organic semiconductors have been proven to be suitable for efficient photovoltaic generation during the last decade but have been scarcely assessed as photoelectrochemical devices. In this work we present the fabrication and characterization of a new effic ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Hybrid organic-inorganic H-2-evolving photocathodes: understanding the route towards high performance organic photoelectrochemical water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Matthew Thomas Mayer

A promising, yet challenging, route towards renewable production of hydrogen is the direct conversion of solar energy at a simple and low cost semiconductor/water junction. Despite the theoretical simplicity of such a photoelectrochemical device, different ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Covalent Immobilization of a Molecular Catalyst on Cu2O Photocathodes for CO2 Reduction

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Thomas Moehl, Peng Gao, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

Sunlight-driven CO2 reduction is a promising way to close the anthropogenic carbon cycle. Integrating light harvester and electrocatalyst functions into a single photo electrode, which converts solar energy and CO2 directly into reduced carbon species, is ...

American Chemical Society2016

Cu2O Nanowire Photocathodes for Efficient and Durable Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Minkyu Son

Due to its abundance, scalability, and nontoxicity, Cu2O has attracted extensive attention toward solar energy conversion, and it is the best performing metal oxide material. Until now, the high efficiency devices are all planar in structure, and their pho ...

American Chemical Society2016

Tin oxide as stable protective layer for composite cuprous oxide water-splitting photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Matthew Thomas Mayer

For a sustainable future, efficient solar energy harvesting and storage is required. Solar hydrogen production from photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising technology and, in particular, cuprous oxide photocathodes are interesting photoelectrod ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Molecular Engineering of Potent Sensitizers for Very Efficient Light Harvesting in Thin-Film Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Norman Pellet, Chenyi Yi, Yelin Hu, Fabrizio Giordano, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yi Xu

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have shown significant potential for indoor arid building integrated photovoltaic applications. Herein we present three new D-A-pi-A organic sensitizers, XY1, XY2, and XY3, that exhibit high molar extinction coefficients ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Efficient photosynthesis of carbon monoxide from CO2 using perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Fabrizio Giordano, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Antonio Abate

Artificial photosynthesis, mimicking nature in its efforts to store solar energy, has received considerable attention from the research community. Most of these attempts target the production of H-2 as a fuel and our group recently demonstrated solar-to-hy ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline and Photoactive Ultrathin Hematite Films for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

We developed a low-temperature atomic layer deposition route to deposit phase pure and crystalline hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) films at 230 degrees C without the need for postannealing. Homogenous and conformal deposition with good aspect ratio coverage was dem ...

American Chemical Society2015

Targeting Ideal Dual-Absorber Tandem Water Splitting Using Perovskite Photovoltaics and CuInxGa1-xSe2 Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Yonghui Lee, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Kunwu Fu

Efficient sunlight-driven water splitting devices can be achieved by pairing two absorbers of different optimized bandgaps in an optical tandem design. With tunable absorption ranges and cell voltages, organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite solar cells ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Transparent Cuprous Oxide Photocathode Enabling a Stacked Tandem Cell for Unbiased Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi

Photoelectrochemical water splitting represents an attractive method of capturing and storing the immense energy of sunlight in the form of hydrogen, a clean chemical fuel. Given the large energetic demand of water electrolysis, and the defined spectrum of ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Solution Transformation of Cu2O into CuInS2 for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

Though Cu2O has demonstrated high performance as a photocathode for solar water splitting, its band gap is too large for efficient use as the bottom cell in tandem configurations. Accordingly, copper chalcopyrites have recently attracted much attention for ...

American Chemical Society2015

Efficient and selective carbon dioxide reduction on low cost protected Cu2O photocathodes using a molecular catalyst

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Thomas Moehl, Stanley David Tilley, Peng Gao, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

Photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO was driven by a TiO2-protected Cu2O photocathode paired with a rhenium bipyridyl catalyst. Efficient and selective CO evolution was shown to be stable over several hours. The use of protic solution additives to o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Marcel Roland Schreier, Stanley David Tilley, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo, Jeong-Hyeok Im

Although sunlight-driven water splitting is a promising route to sustainable hydrogen fuel production, widespread implementation is hampered by the expense of the necessary photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical apparatus. Here, we describe a highly efficie ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

High-Surface-Area Porous Platinum Electrodes for Enhanced Charge Transfer

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Francesco Stellacci, Aswani Yella, Yelin Hu, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Stefan Guldin

Cobalt-based electrolytes are highly tunable and have pushed the limits of dye-sensitized solar cells, enabling higher open-circuit voltages and new record efficiencies. However, the performance of these electrolytes and a range of other electrolytes suffe ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014