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Professor Hongxia Wang awarded $3 million ARC Laureate Fellowship

Professor Hongxia Wang awarded $3 million ARC Laureate Fellowship

Professor Hongxia Wang has received a prestigious $3,023,860 ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship for a project to make next-generation perovskite-based solar cells more durable using molecular engineering. More about the news, visit QUT

ARC Discovery Project Grant

ARC Discovery Project Grant

🔬 Exciting News! 🌐 QUT is breaking new ground in clean energy storage with a Discovery Project, Led by Prof Hongxia Wang, the team is designing high-performance membranes for Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Batteries, a key technology in large-scale energy storage. 🌟 The goal? Cost-effective membranes […]

The Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres Project

The Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres Project

Professor Hongxia Wang and the team partnered with solar cell manufacturers were awarded a grant of $2,028,773 from the Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres Project, or CRC-P initiative. The Project  aims to commercialise ultra-low cost, flexible perovskite solar cells. More at QUT News.

“Critical assessment of carbon pastes for carbon electrode-based perovskite solar cells” is now on Carbon!

“Critical assessment of carbon pastes for carbon electrode-based perovskite solar cells” is now on Carbon!

Perovskite solar cells using carbon electrodes (C–PSCs) possess the advantageous features of low cost, high stability and a simple fabrication process. They are considered a promising technology for producing cost-effective solar electricity. However, the power conversion efficiency of C–PSCs lags far behind that of the conventional gold-based counterparts due […]

Perovskite solar cells based self-charging power packs: Fundamentals, applications and challenges

Perovskite solar cells based self-charging power packs: Fundamentals, applications and challenges

This review highlights the progress in the emerging field of both integrated PSC-SC photocapacitors and PSC-LIB photobatteries in detail, including new device concepts, operation mechanisms, and the performance for each part and the whole device. We further analyze the existing challenges and limitations of the […]

Journal of Material Chemistry A – Front cover

Journal of Material Chemistry A – Front cover

Herein, we demonstrate resilient, high-efficiency triple-cation perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by incorporating carbon dots (CDs) derived from human hair into the perovskite film synthesis. It is found that a toluene-based antisolvent containing CDs results in the formation of a bilayer structure where a wave-like textured […]

A new review article on Low‐Dimensional‐Networked Perovskites

A new review article on Low‐Dimensional‐Networked Perovskites

Stable, low‐dimensional‐network perovskite materials with tailored molecular dimensionality are promising materials for optoelectronic devices including solar cells, light emitting diodes, luminescent solar concentrators, and photodetectors with enhanced performance and stability. This review summarizes the research progress and challenges in this area, providing insights into the […]

The effect of ethylene-amine ligands enhancing performance and stability of perovskite solar cells

The effect of ethylene-amine ligands enhancing performance and stability of perovskite solar cells

We develop an approach that combines molecular dimensionality control and interfacial passivation of perovskite layers using a novel post-device treatment (PDT) with the vapour of ethylene-amine salts of different carbon chain lengths to improve both efficiency and stability of the PSCs. The effect of a […]

1D Pyrrolidinium Lead Iodide for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

1D Pyrrolidinium Lead Iodide for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

A method to form 1D pyrrolidinium lead iodide (PyPbI3) in situ atop photoactive 3D methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) using pyrrolidine posttreatment is reported. As compared with 3D MAPbI3, 1D PyPbI3 has a wider bandgap and is more environmentally stable, and it serves as a tunneling […]

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Front Cover

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Front Cover

Excellent work by Disheng have been choosed as front cover for the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Journal. The work focuses on perovksite solar cell, using 2D Ruddlesden–Popper (PA)2PbI4 perovskites formed by n-propylammonium iodide with PbI2 produce a superhydrophobic surface to maintain the long-term stability […]