Publications de Erfan Shirzadi

Comparative Evaluation of Lipofectamine and Dendrimer for Transfection of Short RNA Into Human T47D and MCF-10A Cell Lines

Purpose: Non-viral transfection approaches are extensively used in cancer therapy. The future of cancer therapy lies on targeted and efficient drug/gene delivery. The aim of this study was to determine the transfection yields of two commercially available ...

2023

High-Work-Function 2D Perovskites as Passivation Agents in Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Erfan Shirzadi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Brian Irving Carlsen, Fatemeh Ansari, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Olivier Ouellette, Hiroaki Jinno

Various approaches have been employed to passivate the defects in perovskite films used in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the passivation mechanism is often unclear at a molecular level, and the reason for enhanced PSC performance often remains el ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Deconvolution of Light-Induced Ion Migration Phenomena by Statistical Analysis of Cathodoluminescence in Lead Halide-Based Perovskites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Nicolas Tappy, Erfan Shirzadi

Studying the compositional instability of mixed ion perovskites under light illumination is important to understand the mechanisms underlying their efficiency and stability. However, current techniques are limited in resolution and are unable to deconvolut ...

WILEY2022

Investigation on the impact of passivation in perovskite solar cells

Erfan Shirzadi

Conversion of sunlight to electricity is the most plausible approach towards the generation of renewable energies. During recent decade lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have proven to be promising candidates for photovoltaic applications such as solar cells. ...

EPFL2021

Principal Descriptors of Ionic Liquid Co-catalysts for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev, Erfan Shirzadi, Serhii Shyshkanov

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR) is promoted by ionic liquid (IL) co-catalysts, and several mechanisms have been proposed to explain their role. Due to the complexity of the CO2RR and the limited number of active IL co-catalysts, a conse ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Passivation Mechanism Exploiting Surface Dipoles Affords High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Thomas La Grange, Paul Joseph Dyson, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Kazuteru Nonomura, Erfan Shirzadi, Fatemeh Ansari

The employment of 2D perovskites is a promising approach to tackling the stability and voltage issues inherent in perovskite solar cells. It remains unclear, however, whether other perovskites with different dimensionalities have the same effect on efficie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Auto-passivation of crystal defects in hybrid imidazolium/methylammonium lead iodide films by fumigation with methylamine affords high efficiency perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Emad Oveisi, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Erfan Shirzadi, Giulia Grancini, Yi Zhang, Xuehui Liu

Hybrid perovskite solar cells have attracted tremendous interest in the photovoltaic community. Despite their high defect tolerance, reducing the trap density by material engineering and surface modification is still critical to further boost performance. ...

Elsevier2019

Introduction of a Bifunctional Cation Affords Perovskite Solar Cells Stable at Temperatures Exceeding 80 degrees C

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Erfan Shirzadi, Filippo de Angelis

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with high efficiencies have been reported in recent years. Consequently, the main obstacle that hinders their commercialization is their poor thermal stability. Here, we describe the introduction of an A-site cation (2-choloro ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Pyrazolium Ionic Liquid Co-catalysts for the Electroreduction of CO2

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev, Erfan Shirzadi

Pyrazolium ionic liquids (Pz ILs) were employed as co-catalysts for electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO on a silver disk electrode, leading to a significant decrease in the onset potential for the reduction (ca. 500 mV). The electrochemical conversion ...

2018

Oxazolium Iodide Modified Perovskites for Solar Cell Fabrication

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Erfan Shirzadi

Perovskites solar cells are gaining interest due to their attractive solar-to-electricity conversion efficiencies; however, they suffer from certain problems, such as suboptimal ion migration and stability issues. We report here on the inclusion of a pheny ...

2018