Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Professor Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin | |
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![]() Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin in 2020 | |
Born | 1957 (age 64–65) Thumboor, India |
Nationality | Switzerland |
Occupation | Full Professor |
Known for | Perovskite solar cells Light-emitting diodes. |
Academic background | |
Education | Chemistry |
Alma mater | Osmania University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Chemistry |
Sub-discipline | Materials science |
Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Main interests | Dye-sensitized solar cells Perovskite solar cells Light-emitting diodes Molecular engineering of functional materials |
Website | https://gmf.epfl.ch/ |
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin (born 1957 in Thumboor,Andhra Pradesh, India) is a Swiss chemist and materials scientist specialized in Perovskite solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and light-emitting diodes. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the director of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials at School of Basic Sciences.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
Nazeeruddin was born in 1957 and brought up in the Indian village of Thumboor. In 1985, he received a PhD in chemistry from the Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. For the following two years he was a lecturer at Osmania University. In 1986, he joined the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar, India. In 1987 he joined EPFL first as a postdoctoral fellow and then held several positions as research fellow. In 2012, he was made "Maître d’ Enseignement et de Recherche" (senior lecturer). Since 2014 he has been a full professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and head of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials at School of Basic Sciences based at EPFL's Valais campus.[1][2][3]
He has a track record teaching and performing research at international universities as World Class University Professor (2009–2014) and as BKPLUS 21 (2014-2019) at the Department of Advanced Materials, Chemistry of the Korea University, and as Visiting Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2014 - 2021) and at the North China Electric Power University (2014 - 2021), and as an eminent professor at Brunei.[4][5][6]
Research[edit]
Nazeeruddin's research focuses on chemical engineering of functional materials for photovoltaic and light-emitting applications such as Perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells, and light-emitting diodes.[7]
His research team contribute to the field of inorganic chemistry for renewable energy is molecular engineering of ruthenium sensitizers that convert solar energy through the use of high surface area nanocrystalline mesoscopic films of oxide semiconductors. These tailored-sensitizers have initiated a new direction in dye-sensitized solar cell research. They synthetized several ruthenium sensitizers (N3, N719 and N749),[8][9][10] and the donor-π-bridge-acceptor porphyrin sensitizers that showed over 13% power conversion efficiency.[11] They also developed near IR sensitizers with selective functionalization of donor-acceptor groups producing 7.0% power conversion efficiency.[12] The development of such zinc phthalocyanine sensitizers enable windows that transmit part of the visible light and harvest in the red and near-IR section of the spectrum.[13] Furthermore, they have also engineered cobalt complexes as redox mediators that deliver very high currents and high open-circuit potential reaching 1.06 V.[14]
A further field of their research encompass organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that are used in the fabrication of digital displays.[15] They contributed novel blue, green, and red phosphorescent iridium emitters for OLEDs.[16] With their OLED research they participated in the EU-FP7 project "all-carbon platforms for highly efficient molecular wire-coupled dye-sensitized solar cells,"[17] and received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program for their SOLEDLIGHT project.[18]
He has established a new laboratory at EPFL-Sion Energy center, focusing on organic, inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells and Light Emitting Diodes research. He explored the effects of the energy level, mobility, and morphology of the charge transport layers and the triple-cation mixed perovskite (formamidinium, methylammonium, and cesium) used in blue, green, and infrared LEDs. By varying the composition of the halides, spectrally narrow electroluminescence over the entire wavelength is achieved. He fabricated blue, green, and red PLEDs with unprecedentedly high external quantum efficiency. By optimizing the thickness and morphology of the device's constituent layers, the red, green, and blue PLEDs achieved improved electroluminescence (EL) efficiencies at low turn-on voltages. Interestingly, the triple inorganic and organic cations perovskite-based devices exhibited long operational environmental stability, demonstrating that compositionally engineered perovskite is an attractive material for PLEDs and photovoltaic applications.
He has extensively investigated solutions (one-step and sequential deposition) and sublimation-deposited perovskite solar cells and obtained a record certified power conversion efficiency of 25%. His group has pioneered compositional engineering of perovskite, and the design and development of electron, and hole-transporting materials. Their striking finding was the non-stoichiometric ratio of PbI2 to methylammonium iodide (an excess of PbI2) that significantly improves perovskite crystal size and efficiency, reproducibility, and modifies the interface between perovskite and electron transporting layer. To further enhance perovskite solar cells' stability, he has developed layer-by-layer growth of 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional perovskites yielding over 24% certified efficiency and stability.
Their research was featured in several international news outlets.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Distinctions[edit]
Nazeeruddin has been the author of more than 725 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters, and he holds as an inventor over 93 patents.[26] According to Thomson Reuters he has been named an "Highly Cited Researcher" since 2014 in chemistry, materials science and engineering, and, in 2016 and in 2017, one of the 19 scientists considered the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" from all scientific domains.[27][28] As stated in the ISI listing he is one of most cited chemists with more than 120'000 citations and an h-index of 147.[29] His group has earned worldwide recognition and leadership in Perovskite solar cells as evidenced by The Times of Higher Education named him “the top 10 researchers in the world working on the high impact perovskite materials and devices”.[30]
He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts,[31] and is a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry.[32] Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Swiss Chemical Society. He was awarded the 34th Khwarizmi International Award in Basic Sciences, 2021.
Since 2018 he has been a jury member of the Rei Jaume I foundation in Spain.[33]
He is the recipient of the best paper award from the journal Inorganics,[34] the EPFL Excellence Prize (1998 and 2006), the Brazilian FAPESP fellowship award (1999), the Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship (1998), and Government of India National Scholar award (1987-1989).[35]
He is an Advisory Board member at Advanced Functional Materials,[36] an Associated Editor at Energy Chem,[37] an Editorial Advisory Board member at Scientific Reports,[38] an Editorial Advisory Board at RRL Solar,[39] and an Editorial Advisory Board member at Artificial Photosynthesis.
Selected works[edit]
- Drigo, Nikita; Roldan-Carmona, Cristina; Franckevičius, Marius; Lin, Kun-Han; Gegevičius, Rokas; Kim, Hobeom; Schouwink, Pascal A.; Sutanto, Albertus A.; Olthof, Selina; Sohail, Muhammad; Meerholz, Klaus; Gulbinas, Vidmantas; Corminboeuf, Clémence; Paek, Sanghyun; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (13 January 2020). "Doped but Stable: Spirobisacridine Hole Transporting Materials for Hysteresis-Free and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142 (4): 1792–1800. doi:10.1021/JACS.9B07166. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 31865703. Wikidata Q92180779.
- Grancini, Giulia; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (28 November 2018). "Dimensional tailoring of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics". Nature Reviews Materials. 4 (1): 4–22. Bibcode:2019NatRM...4....4G. doi:10.1038/S41578-018-0065-0. ISSN 2058-8437. S2CID 139270295. Wikidata Q105923525.
- Gao, Peng; Bin Mohd Yusoff, Abd Rashid; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (28 November 2018). "Dimensionality engineering of hybrid halide perovskite light absorbers". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 5028. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.5028G. doi:10.1038/S41467-018-07382-9. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6261957. PMID 30487520. Wikidata Q59806169.
- Cho, Kyung Taek; Grancini, Giulia; Lee, Yonghui; Oveisi, Emad; Ryu, Jaehoon; Almora, Osbel; Tschumi, Manuel; Schouwink, Pascal Alexander; Seo, Gabseok; Heo, Sung; Park, Jucheol; Jang, Jyongsik; Paek, Sanghyun; Garcia-Belmonte, Germà; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (2018). "Selective growth of layered perovskites for stable and efficient photovoltaics". Energy & Environmental Science. 11 (4): 952–959. doi:10.1039/C7EE03513F. ISSN 1754-5692. Wikidata Q105923585.
- Jodlowski, Alexander D.; Roldán-Carmona, Cristina; Grancini, Giulia; Salado, Manuel; Ralaiarisoa, Maryline; Ahmad, Shahzada; Koch, Norbert; Camacho, Luis; De Miguel, Gustavo; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (December 2017). "Large guanidinium cation mixed with methylammonium in lead iodide perovskites for 19% efficient solar cells". Nature Energy. 2 (12): 972–979. doi:10.1038/S41560-017-0054-3. ISSN 2058-7546. S2CID 102654416. Wikidata Q60149263.
- Grancini, G.; Roldán-Carmona, C.; Zimmermann, I.; Mosconi, E.; Lee, X.; Martineau, D.; Narbey, S.; Oswald, F.; De Angelis, F.; Graetzel, M.; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (1 June 2017). "One-Year stable perovskite solar cells by 2D/3D interface engineering". Nature Communications. 8: 15684. Bibcode:2017NatCo...815684G. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS15684. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5461484. PMID 28569749. Wikidata Q42217971.
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- ^ Cho, Kyung Taek; Rakstys, Kasparas; Cavazzini, Marco; Orlandi, Simonetta; Pozzi, Gianluca; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (2016-12-01). "Perovskite Solar Cells Employing Molecularly Engineered Zn(II) Phthalocyanines as Hole-transporting Materials". Nano Energy. 30: 853–857. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.09.008. ISSN 2211-2855.
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- ^ Pizzoli, Giuliano; Lobello, Maria Grazia; Carlotti, Benedetta; Elisei, Fausto; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Vitillaro, Giuseppe; Angelis, Filippo De (2012-09-11). "Acid–base properties of the N3 ruthenium(II) solar cell sensitizer: a combined experimental and computational analysis". Dalton Transactions. 41 (38): 11841–11848. doi:10.1039/C2DT31340E. ISSN 1477-9234. PMID 22911010.
- ^ De Angelis, Filippo; Fantacci, Simona; Mosconi, Edoardo; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Grätzel, Michael (2011-05-05). "Absorption Spectra and Excited State Energy Levels of the N719 Dye on TiO2 in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Models". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115 (17): 8825–8831. doi:10.1021/jp111949a. ISSN 1932-7447.
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- ^ Yum, Jun-Ho; Baranoff, Etienne; Kessler, Florian; Moehl, Thomas; Ahmad, Shahzada; Bessho, Takeru; Marchioro, Arianna; Ghadiri, Elham; Moser, Jacques-E.; Yi, Chenyi; Nazeeruddin, Md K. (2012-01-17). "A cobalt complex redox shuttle for dye-sensitized solar cells with high open-circuit potentials". Nature Communications. 3 (1): 631. Bibcode:2012NatCo...3..631Y. doi:10.1038/ncomms1655. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3272578. PMID 22252555.
- ^ Kessler, Florian; Watanabe, Yuichiro; Sasabe, Hisahiro; Katagiri, Hiroshi; Nazeeruddin, Md K.; Grätzel, Michael; Kido, Junji (2013-01-17). "High-performance pure blue phosphorescent OLED using a novel bis-heteroleptic iridium(III) complex with fluorinated bipyridyl ligands". Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 1 (6): 1070–1075. doi:10.1039/C2TC00836J. ISSN 2050-7534.
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External links[edit]
- Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publication listed on ORCID
- Publication listed on Publons
- Website of the Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials