The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters is devoted to reporting new and original experimental and theoretical basic research of interest to physical chemists, biophysical chemists, chemical physicists, physicists, material scientists, and engineers.

In this collection, we showcase articles in the area of physical insights into energy science, published in 2019 and 2020, that researchers have been reading, sharing, and citing.

Perspectives

Letters

Perspectives

Self-Trapped Excitons in All-Inorganic Halide Perovskites: Fundamentals, Status, and Potential Applications

Shunran Li, Jiajun Luo, Jing Liu, and Jiang Tang

Two-Dimensional Transition Metal MXene-Based Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Generation

Lei Cheng, Xin Li, Huaiwu Zhang, and Quanjun Xiang

Reducing Defects in Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Light-Emitting Applications

Xiaopeng Zheng, Yi Hou, Hong-Tao Sun, Omar F. Mohammed, Edward H. Sargent, and Osman M. Bakr

Insights of Doping and the Photoluminescence Properties of Mn-Doped Perovskite Nanocrystals

Samrat Das Adhikari, Amit K. Guria, and Narayan Pradhan

The Rise of Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes

Zhanhua Wei and Jun Xing

Influence of Defects on Excited-State Dynamics in Lead Halide Perovskites: Time-Domain ab Initio Studies

Wei Li, Run Long, Jianfeng Tang, and Oleg V. Prezhdo

Light Management: A Key Concept in High-Efficiency Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics

Daniel A. Jacobs, Malte Langenhorst, Florent Sahli,

Bryce S. Richards, Thomas P. White, Christophe Ballif,

Kylie R. Catchpole, and Ulrich W. Paetzold

Stability of Lead and Tin Halide Perovskites: The Link between Defects and Degradation

Luis Lanzetta, Nicholas Aristidou, and Saif A. Haque

Interaction between Colloidal Quantum Dots and Halide Perovskites: Looking for Constructive Synergies

Thi Tuyen Ngo and Iván Mora-Seró

The Cost of Converting Excitons into Free Charge Carriers in Organic Solar Cells

Koen Vandewal, Sigurd Mertens, Johannes Benduhn, and Quan Liu

Structurally Tunable Two-Dimensional Layered Perovskites: From Confinement and Enhanced Charge Transport to Prolonged Hot Carrier Cooling Dynamics

Ala’a O. El-Ballouli, Osman M. Bakr, and Omar F. Mohammed

Potassium–Oxygen Batteries: Significance, Challenges, and Prospects

Jimin Park, Jang-Yeon Hwang, and Won-Jin Kwak

Letters

Suppression of Charge Carrier Recombination in Lead-Free Tin Halide Perovskite via Lewis Base Post-treatment

Muhammad Akmal Kamarudin, Daisuke Hirotani, Zhen Wang, Kengo Hamada, Kohei Nishimura, Qing Shen, Taro Toyoda, Satoshi Iikubo, Takashi Minemoto, Kenji Yoshino, and

Shuzi Hayase

Toward a Stable Sodium Metal Anode in Carbonate Electrolyte: A Compact, Inorganic Alloy Interface

Xueying Zheng, Haoyu Fu, Chenchen Hu, Hui Xu, Ying Huang, Jiayun Wen, Huabin Sun, Wei Luo, and Yunhui Huang

Alkali Metal Intercalation in MXene/Graphene Heterostructures: A New Platform for Ion Battery Applications

Ilker Demiroglu, François M. Peeters, Oğuz Gülseren,

Deniz Çakır, and Cem Sevik

Reduced-Dimensional Perovskite Enabled by Organic Diamine for Efficient Photovoltaics

Tingting Niu, Hui Ren, Bo Wu, Yingdong Xia, Xiaoji Xie, Yingguo Yang, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen, and Wei Huang

Potassium Metal as Reliable Reference Electrodes of Nonaqueous Potassium Cells

Tomooki Hosaka, Shotaro Muratsubaki, Kei Kubota,

Hiroo Onuma, and Shinichi Komaba

The Causes of Degradation of Perovskite Solar Cells

Juan Bisquert and Emilio J. Juarez-Perez

Local Excitation/Charge-Transfer Hybridization Simultaneously Promotes Charge Generation and Reduces Nonradiative Voltage Loss in Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

Guangchao Han and Yuanping Yi

Functionalization: An Effective Approach to Open and Close Channels for Electron Transfer in Nitrogenated Holey Graphene C₂N Anodes in Sodium-Ion Batteries

Donghai Wu, Baocheng Yang, Eli Ruckenstein, and

Houyang Chen

Stable Bandgap-Tunable Hybrid Perovskites with Alloyed Pb–Ba Cations for High-Performance Photovoltaic Applications

Ming-Hui Shang, Jing Zhang, Peng Zhang, Zuobao Yang,

Jinju Zheng, Md Azimul Haque, Weiyou Yang, Su-Huai Wei, and Tom Wu

Light or Heat: What Is Killing Lead Halide Perovskites under Solar Cell Operation Conditions?

Azat F. Akbulatov, Lyubov A. Frolova, Nadezhda N. Dremova, Ivan Zhidkov, Vyacheslav M. Martynenko, Sergey A. Tsarev, Sergey Yu. Luchkin, Ernst Z. Kurmaev, Sergey M. Aldoshin, Keith J. Stevenson, and Pavel A. Troshin

Highly Reproducible and Efficient FASnI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells Fabricated with Volatilizable Reducing Solvent

Xiangyue Meng, Tianhao Wu, Xiao Liu, Xin He, Takeshi Noda, Yanbo Wang, Hiroshi Segawa, and Liyuan Han

Efficient and Stable Low-Dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Reducing Tunnel Barrier

Lingfeng Chao, Tingting Niu, Yingdong Xia, Xueqin Ran, Yonghua Chen, and Wei Huang

Probing Lithium Carbonate Formation in Trace-O₂-Assisted Aprotic Li-CO₂ Batteries Using in Situ Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Zhiwei Zhao, Yuwei Su, and Zhangquan Peng

General Trend of a Negative Li Effective Charge in Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

Nicola Molinari, Jonathan P. Mailoa, and Boris Kozinsky

Origin of Band-Tail and Deep-Donor States in Cu₂ZnSnS₄ Solar Cells and Their Suppression through Sn-Poor Composition

Suyu Ma, Hongkai Li, Jin Hong, Han Wang, Xiaoshuang Lu, Ye Chen, Lin Sun, Fangyu Yue, Jens W. Tomm, Junhao Chu, and Shiyou Chen

High-Energy and High-Power-Density Potassium Ion Batteries Using Dihydrophenazine-Based Polymer as Active Cathode Material

Filipp A. Obrezkov, Vahid Ramezankhani, Ivan Zhidkov,

Valerii F. Traven, Ernst Z. Kurmaev, Keith J. Stevenson, and

Pavel A. Troshin

Two-Dimensional Carbon-Based Auxetic Materials for Broad-Spectrum Metal-Ion Battery Anodes

Shuaiwei Wang, Yubing Si, Baocheng Yang, Eli Ruckenstein, and Houyang Chen

Critical Assessment of the Use of Excess Lead Iodide in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Bart Roose, Krishanu Dey, Yu-Hsien Chiang,

Richard H. Friend, and Samuel D. Stranks

Amide Additives Induced a Fermi Level Shift To Improve the Performance of Hole-Conductor-Free, Printable Mesoscopic Perovskite Solar Cells

Shuang Liu, Sheng Li, Jiawen Wu, Qifei Wang, Yue Ming,

Deyi Zhang, Yusong Sheng, Yue Hu, Yaoguang Rong,

Anyi Mei, and Hongwei Han

Hole Transfer Originating from Weakly Bound Exciton Dissociation in Acceptor–Donor–Acceptor Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

Meng-Si Niu, Kang-Wei Wang, Xiao-Yu Yang, Peng-Qing Bi, Kang-Ning Zhang, Xian-Jin Feng, Fei Chen, Wei Qin,

Jian-Long Xia, and Xiao-Tao Hao

Analysis of the Voltage Losses in CZTSSe Solar Cells of Varying Sn Content

Mohammed Azzouzi, Antonio Cabas-Vidani, Stefan G. Haass, Jason A. Röhr, Yaroslav E. Romanyuk, Ayodhya N. Tiwari, and Jenny Nelson

Large-Area Organic-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with High Thermal Stability

Xin Liu, Yequan Xiao, Qiugui Zeng, Jiexuan Jiang, and

Yanbo Li

Pb-Based Perovskite Solar Cells and the Underlying Pollution behind Clean Energy: Dynamic Leaching of Toxic Substances from Discarded Perovskite Solar Cells

Peidong Su, Yu Liu, Junke Zhang, Cong Chen, Bo Yang, Chunhui Zhang, and Xu Zhao

Full Energy Range Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering of O₂ and CO₂: Direct Comparison with Oxygen Redox State in Batteries

Zengqing Zhuo, Yi-sheng Liu, Jinghua Guo, Yi-de Chuang, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang

MOF-Derived Co,N Codoped Carbon/Ti Mesh Counter Electrode for High-Efficiency Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells

Yu Lin, Han Song, Huashang Rao, Zhonglin Du,

Zhenxiao Pan, and Xinhua Zhong

Unraveling Correlations between Molecular Properties and Device Parameters of Organic Solar Cells Using Machine Learning

Harikrishna Sahu and Haibo Ma

Recombination between Photogenerated and Electrode-Induced Charges Dominates the Fill Factor Losses in Optimized Organic Solar Cells

Uli Würfel, Lorena Perdigón-Toro, Jona Kurpiers, Christian M. Wolff, Pietro Caprioglio, Jeromy James Rech, Jingshuai Zhu, Xiaowei Zhan, Wei You, Safa Shoaee, Dieter Neher, and Martin Stolterfoht

A Comparative Study on Hole Transfer Inversely Correlated with Driving Force in Two Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

Jianqiu Wang, Jianqiu Xu, Nannan Yao, Dongyang Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Shenkun Xie, Xuning Zhang, Fengling Zhang, Huiqiong Zhou, Chunfeng Zhang, and Yuan Zhang

About

Submit Manuscript

Editorial Board

Alert: Get The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters articles straight to your inbox weekly:

Get Journal e-Alert & news View all alerts