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Impact of Peripheral Groups on Phenothiazine-Based Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Hanlong Liu, Xiong Li, Fei Zhang, Hongwei Zhu, Shilong Wang

2018

Reversible De-differentiation of Mature White Adipocytes into Preadipocyte-like Precursors during Lactation

Bart Deplancke, Petra Catalina Schwalie, Wanze Chen, Fei Zhang

Cell Press2018

Variable charge transfer state energies at nanostructured pentacene/C-60 interfaces

Fei Zhang, Chien-Jen Yang

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Suppressing defects through the synergistic effect of a Lewis base and a Lewis acid for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Kai Zhu

2018

Morphology Engineering: A Route to Highly Reproducible and High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Arnaud Magrez, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang

Despite the rapid increase in the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSC), they still suffer from low lab-to-lab or people-to-people reproducibility. Aiming for a universal condition to high-performance devices, we investigated the morphology evolution ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

Isomer-Pure Bis-PCBM-Assisted Crystal Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells Showing Excellent Efficiency and Stability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

A fullerene derivative (alpha-bis-PCBM) is purified from an as-produced bis-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (bis-[60]PCBM) isomer mixture by preparative peak-recycling, high-performance liquid chromatography, and is employed as a templating agent for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Over 20% PCE perovskite solar cells with superior stability achieved by novel and low-cost hole-transporting materials

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Norman Pellet, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Hongwei Zhu, Shilong Wang, Ziyun Wang

The exploration of alternative low-cost molecular hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for both highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is a relatively new research area. Two novel HTMs using the thiophene core were designed and synthesized ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Dopant-free star-shaped hole-transport materials for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

Two star-shaped TPA-based small-molecule materials (Z1012 and Z1013) were designed and synthesized in this paper. These molecules show high hole mobility and suitable energy levels for CH3NH3PbI3-based perovskite solar cells. Photovoltaic cells based on th ...

Elsevier2017

Polymer-templated nucleation and crystal growth of perovskite films for solar cells with efficiency greater than 21%

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jean-David Décoppet, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang

The past several years have witnessed the rapid emergence of a class of solar cells based on mixed organic-inorganic halide perovskites. Today's state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells (PSCs) employ various methods to enhance nucleation and improve the smo ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A novel one-step synthesized and dopant-free hole transport material for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

A hole transport material ST1 was synthesized by a one-step Heck reaction. Compared to Spiro-OMeTAD, perovskite solar cells with ST1 exhibit a remarkable overall power conversion efficiency of 15.4% without the use of any dopants and additives, which is co ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

A Novel Dopant-Free Triphenylamine Based Molecular "Butterfly" Hole-Transport Material for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Dopant-Free Donor (D)–p–D–p–D Conjugated Hole- Transport Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi, Xiong Li, Jingshan Luo, Dongqin Bi, Fei Zhang, Shilong Wang

Three novel hole-transporting materials (HTMs) using the 4-methoxytriphenylamine (MeOTPA) core were designed and synthesized. The energy levels of the HTMs were tuned to match the perovskite energy levels by introducing symmetrical electron-donating groups ...

2016

A New Fullerene-Free Bulk-Heterojunction System for Efficient High-Voltage and High-Fill Factor Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Bo Liu, Fei Zhang

Small molecule donor/polymer acceptor bulk-heterojunction films with both compounds strongly absorbing have great potential for further enhancement of the performance of organic solar cells. By employing a newly synthesized small molecule donor with a comm ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015