About the M2N research group
Welcome to the Molecular Materials and Nanosystems (M2N) research group. The M2N group is an interdepartmental research group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), active in the Departments of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. It brings together researchers from these two fields and aims at establishing a coherent research and educational program on the physics and chemistry of functional nanostructured organic and inorganic molecular materials and devices.
You can also find us on the TU/e website
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Upcoming events
Henry Kwan will defend his MSc thesis “Towards the theoretical efficiency limit: Fine-tuning Cs0.1FA0.6MA0.3Pb0.5Sn0.5I3-xBrx perovskites for solar cells” on Monday May 6, 2024 at 9:00 in Helix STW 4.91
Daan van Herpt will defend his MSc thesis "Effect of substrate & additives on absolute photoluminescence of perovskite thin film semiconductors"on Tuesday May 7, 2024 at 10:30 in Helix STW 4.91
Julia Horbalová will defend her MSc thesis "Terephthalonitriles as anolytes for upscaling nonaqueous redox flow bateries" on Monday June 3, 2024 at 10:30 in Helix STW 2.91
News
- 10 April 2024 Congratulations to Tim de Visser who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Exploring polariton effects in liquid-crystalline materials of perylene bisimide dyes"
- 14 March 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Simone van Laar who successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Mixed-halide wide-bandgap perovskite semiconductors for photovoltaics'
- 4 March 2024 Congratulations to Boudewijn Coenegracht who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Voltage-dependent photoluminescence measurements onperovskite solar cells"
- 20 February 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Michael Verhage who successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Spins for Energy. Local probing of structure, magnetism and conductivity of chiral molecules & complex oxides'
- 10 February 2024 The joint first author paper of Guus Aalbers and Tom van der Pol Effect of sub-bandgap defects on radiative and non-radiative open-circuit voltage losses in perovskite solar cells has been published in in Nature Communications today. The paper has been selected as Editors’ Highlights of recent research on “Devices”.
- 8 February 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Taherpour who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Accurate and fast modeling of opto-electronic processes in organic light-emitting diodes: - From master equation to multiverse kinetic Monte Carlo modeling." See also the news item on the TU/e website.
- 1 February 2024 A warm welcome to Vishnu Vijayakumar who started as postdoctoral researcher today.
- 24 January 2024 PV Magazine highlighted Junke Wang's paper in Nature Energy.
- 15 January 2024 A warm welcome to Simon Quiroz Monnens who started his PhD today.
- 8 January 2024 See these news items on Junke Wang's paper in Nature Energy reported by Innovation Origins and TU/e
- 19 December 2023 Congratulations to Jordi Frencken, Ediz Garip, Daniël Grosfeld, and Luuk Sander who all received their MSc diplomas today. The ceremony can be viewed again on YouTube.
- 15 December 2023 The research of Hiroki Tomita and Clint van Hoesel on "Unravelling quantum mechanics for brighter OLEDs" is featured in latest ICMS Highlights Magazine
- 15 December 2023 Congratulations to Lars van Erp for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Narrow-bandgap large-area Pb-Sn perovskite solar cells".
- 14 December 2023 NWO has granted our proposal Flowganic in the 2023 Take-off autumn round. A recent discovery of extremely stable and easy to synthesize organic redox-active molecules provides new perspectives to the development of organic redox flow batteries for energy storage. In this project, we aim to develop this discovery into a sustainable energy technology, create demonstrators, and identify first commercial products. Also covered by C2W in Chemisch onderzoek stijgt op.
- 11 December 2023 Congratulations to Wouter Vels who received his MSc diploma today.
- 28 November 2023 If you are interested (and understand Dutch) you can check the podcast De Technoloog of BNR Nieuwsradio and learn about "Zonnepanelen als belangrijkste wapen in de energietransitie"
- 16 November 2023 Junke Wang's paper Halide homogenization enables low energy loss in 2-eV-bandgap perovskites and increased efficiency in all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells was published in Nature Energy today. For a quick update check the Behind the Paper blog.
- 15 October 2023 A warm welcome to Thijs van Stralen who started his work today as a researcher.