Publications by Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

Helical interfacial modulation for perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jovana Milic, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang

Hybrid metal halide perovskites have demonstrated remarkable performances in modern photovoltaics, although their stabilities remain limited. We assess the capacity to advance their properties by relying on interfacial modulators featuring helical chiralit ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Copolymer-Templated Nickel Oxide for High-Efficiency Mesoscopic Perovskite Solar Cells in Inverted Architecture

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Hong Zhang

Despite the outstanding role of mesoscopic structures on the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in the regular (n-i-p) architecture, mesoscopic PSCs in inverted (p-i-n) architecture have rarely been reported. Herein, an efficient and ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Dopant Engineering for Spiro‐OMeTAD Hole‐Transporting Materials towards Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jiyoun Seo, Hui-Seon Kim, Jovana Milic, Seckin Akin, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

One of the most prominent hole-transporting material (HTM) for hybrid perovskite solar cells has been 2,2″,7,7″-tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]-9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD), which is commonly doped with metal bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ...

2021

Naphthalenediimide/Formamidinium-Based Low-Dimensional Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Vincent Henri Guillaume Dufoulon, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jovana Milic, George Cameron Fish, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Thomas Schneeberger

Low-dimensional hybrid perovskites have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Although these materials have already demonstrated enhanced stability as compared to their three-dimensional perovskite analogues, their functionality h ...

2021

Highly efficient, stable and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cell based on chemical bath treated Zn2SnO4 electron transport layer

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Zaiwei Wang, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Seckin Akin, Faranak Sadegh, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

The electron transport layer (ETL) is a key constituent in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). It should provide efficient and selective electron extraction, low resistivity and high stability. Here, zinc stannate (Zn2SnO4, ZSO) is employed as an ETL in planar ...

Elsevier2020

Supramolecular Modulation of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells via Bifunctional Halogen Bonding Revealed by Two-Dimensional 19F Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Amita Ummadisingu, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Jovana Milic, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

There has been an ongoing effort to overcome the limitations associated with the stability of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells by using different organic agents as additives to the perovskite formulations. The functionality of organic additi ...

2020

Zinc Phthalocyanine Conjugated Dimers as Efficient Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Natalie Flores Diaz, Brian Irving Carlsen, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Desiré Molina Alcaide, Bowen Yang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

Four ZnPc-dimers with 2,5-thienyl (ZnPc-th-ZnPc 1), 2,7-fluorenyl (ZnPc-flu-ZnPc 2), 3,6-bisthienylldiketopyrrolopyrrole (ZnPc-DPP-ZnPc 3) and 1,4-phenyl (ZnPc-p-ZnPc 4) bridges have been studied as dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) in perovsk ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Tailored Amphiphilic Molecular Mitigators for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with 23.5% Efficiency

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Xiong Li, Xiaofei Dong, Linfeng Pan, Zaiwei Wang, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen, Dan Ren, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Bowen Yang, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hongwei Zhu, Shilong Wang

Passivation of interfacial defects serves as an effective means to realize highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, most molecular modulators currently used to mitigate such defects form poorly conductive aggregates at the perovs ...

Wiley2020

Guanine‐Stabilized Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskites

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Yuhang Liu, Jovana Milic, Dan Ren, Li Hong, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

Formamidinium (FA) lead iodide perovskite materials feature promising photovoltaic performances and superior thermal stabilities. However, conversion of the perovskite α‐FAPbI3 phase to the thermodynamically stable yet photovoltaically inactive δ‐FAPbI3 ph ...

2020

Supramolecular Engineering for Formamidinium-Based Layered 2D Perovskite Solar Cells: Structural Complexity and Dynamics Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Amita Ummadisingu, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Jeong-Hyeok Im, David Lyndon Emsley, Jiyoun Seo, Yang Li, Jovana Milic, Yang Li, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado

Perovskite solar cells are one of the most promising photovoltaic technologies, although their molecular level design and stability toward environmental factors remain a challenge. Layered 2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite phases feature an organic spacer bi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019