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Amine modification enables selective CO2 electroreduction to ethanol via coupling of carbon-containing intermediates

Electrochemical CO2-to-ethanol conversion faces challenges due to competing ethylene formation. We demonstrate a strategy steering selectivity toward ethanol by modifying copper nanowires with N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMe). The TMe-Cu catalyst ...

2025

Polyaniline-supported copper nanocrystals for electrochemical CO2 reduction to methane

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

Achieving industrial electrochemical CO2 reduction necessitates the strategic design of electrocatalysts with high activity, superior selectivity, and excellent stability. Herein, we developed spatially dispersed copper nanocrystals supported by polyanilin ...

2025

Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao, Likai Zheng

Surface reflections and non-radiative recombinations create energy losses in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by hindering the generation and extraction of carriers. These losses can reduce device efficiency in practical applications as the incident angle of ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

Solar-driven Plastic Reforming with Co2 Conversion to Value-added Chemicals Using Bifunctional Copper Hydroxide Catalyst

Jing Gao

During coupling with carbon dioxide reduction reactions (CO2RR), plastic reforming as an effective alternative anodic reaction to replace oxygen evolution reaction (OER), offers dual benefits of reducing energy consumption and producing valuable chemicals. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Designing multi-metal-site nanosheet catalysts for CO2 photoreduction to ethylene

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

Catalysts featuring multiple active sites hold significant potential for CO2 photoconversion to multi-carbon products. However, multi-metal-site catalysts typically face challenges with low yields and selectivity for ethylene production, with a lack of def ...

2025

Electrochemical co-upgrading CO2 and glycerol for selective formate production with 190% overall Faradaic efficiency

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao

The overall energy efficiency (EE) is critical for commercializing promising electrochemical technologies, such as the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR). Despite the rapid development of advanced catalysts and reactors for CO2RR, its commercial pot ...

2025

Strain-induced rubidium incorporation into wide-bandgap perovskites reduces photovoltage loss

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, David Lyndon Emsley, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Michael Allan Hope, Lukas Pfeifer, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Lorenzo Agosta, Yuxuan Zhang, Likai Zheng

A-site cation mixing can enhance the photovoltaic performance of a wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite, but rubidium (Rb) cation mixing generally forms a nonperovskite phase. We report that lattice strain locks Rb ions into the α-phase of the lattice of a triple ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Phase-stable indium sulfide achieves an energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-assisted carbon dioxide reduction to formate

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jing Gao, Qixing Zhang, Jun Li

Tremendous efforts have been made in developing highly selective catalysts for electrochemical CO 2 conversion to formate. However, the rapid deactivation resulting from structural reconstruction and phase transition poses considerable challenges to the sy ...

Cell Press2024

Surface Passivation of FAPbI3-Rich Perovskite with Cesium Iodide Outperforms Bulk Incorporation

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jing Gao, George Cameron Fish, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Georgios Kakavelakis

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown an incredible increase in efficiency, reaching as high as 25.7%, which now competes with traditional photovoltaic technologies. Herein, we excluded CsX and RbX (X = I–, Br–, Cl–), the most commonly used cations to ...

2023

Bifunctional hole-shuttle molecule for improved interfacial energy level alignment and defect passivation in perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zhongjin Shen

Interface engineering in perovskite solar cells is key to high performance. Now, You et al. design an interlayer that both passivates defects and improves the energy level alignment between the perovskite and hole transport material. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Electrochemical synthesis of propylene from carbon dioxide on copper nanocrystals

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

The conversion of carbon dioxide to value-added products using renewable electricity would potentially help to address current climate concerns. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to propylene, a critical feedstock, requires multiple C-C coupl ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Stabilization of FAPbI(3) with Multifunctional Alkali-Functionalized Polymer

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jing Gao, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Anurag Krishna

The defects located at the interfaces and grain boundaries (GBs) of perovskite films are detrimental to the photovoltaic performance and stability of perovskite solar cells. Manipulating the perovskite crystallization process and tailoring the interfaces w ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Molecular engineering of low-cost, efficient, and stable photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Marina Freitag, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zhongjin Shen, Lukas Pfeifer

The cost, stability, and photovoltaic performance of photosensi-tizers play a key role in the commercialization of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Herein, three novel sensitizers termed ZS10, ZS11, and ZS12 are described based on the simple chemical str ...

Cell Press2023

Efficient Cu2O Photocathodes for Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate and Syngas

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Linfeng Pan, Yongpeng Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Jun Li

Photoelectrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (PEC-CO2R) represents a promising approach for producing renewable fuels and chemicals using solar energy. However, attaining even modest solar-to-fuel (STF) conversion efficiency often necessitates the use of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots-Sensitized Mesoporous TiO2 Electron Transport Layers for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Linrui Duan

The carrier transport layer plays a critical role in high efficiency and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, CsPbBr3 quantum dots-sensitized mesoporous TiO2 (CPB-TiO2) electron transport layer for fabricating high-quality perovskite films with en ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Conference on Artificial Photosynthesis and Green Catalysis

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao, Lukas Pfeifer

Swiss Chemical Soc2023

Intrinsic thermal stability of inverted perovskite solar cells based on electrochemical deposited PEDOT

Jing Gao

Thermal stability of perovskite materials is an issue impairing the long-term operation of inverted per-ovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, the thermal attenuation mechanism of the MAPbI3 films that deposited on two different hole transport layers (HTL), p ...

ELSEVIER2023

Regulated CO adsorption by the electrode with OH− repulsive property for enhancing C–C coupling

Michael Graetzel, Mingkui Wang, Jingshan Luo, Xiaoyu Zhang, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Qixing Zhang, Jialin Wang

Electrochemical CO2 reduction driven by renewable electricity is one of the promising strategies to store sustainable energy as fuels. However, the selectivity of value-added multi-carbon products remains poor for further application of this process. Here, ...

2023

Revisiting the Impact of Morphology and Oxidation State of Cu on CO2 Reduction Using Electrochemical Flow Cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Dan Ren, Jing Gao

Electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a flow electrolyzer represents a promising carbon-neutral technology with efficient production of valuable chemicals. In this work, the catalytic performance of polycrystalline copper (Cu), Cu2O-derived copper (O ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Jun Li

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022