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
Mahyar Taherpour will defend 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" on Thursday February 8, 2024 at 16:00 h in Atlas 0.710
News
- 19 September 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Bruno Pinto Branco who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Solar–driven water electrolysis: new multijunction solar cells and electrolysis materials". Bruno was awarded with two diplomas: one from the University of Stuttgart and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
- 19 September 2023 Congratulations to Nico van Rijswijk and Rens Cuijpers who received their MSc diplomas today.
- 18 September 2023 A warm welcome to Rens Cuijpers who started his PhD today.
- 8 August 2023 An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to René Janssen for our group's research on multi-junction perovskite solar cells. For more information see the news item on the TU/e wbsite.
- 13 July 2023 Congratulations to Avalon Hayes for successfully defending her MSc thesis "Copper-based inorganic hole transport layers for upscaled p-i-n perovskite solar cells".
- 30 June 2023 In the third round the National Growth Fund has partially approved the SolarNL "Circular integrated high-efficiency solar panels" propsal in which our group is involved. For more information see the news item on the TU/e website and the website of SolarNL.
- 27 June 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Caiazzo who successfully defended his PhD thesis "2D and Quasi-2D Perovskites for Optoelectronic Devices".
- 20 June 2023 Congratulations to Pieter de Haij and Bruno Langers who received their MSc diplomas today.
- 14 June 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Daub who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards a more sustainable world: New organic molecules for nonaqueous redox flow batteries".
- 6 June 2023 Congratulations to Dimitar Georgiev for successfully defending his MSc thesis "New redox active organic molecules with deep reduction potential as anolytes for RFBs".
- 30 May 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Ludovico Riccardi who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Molecular copper and ruthenium water oxidation electrocatalyst for light-driven water splitting". Ludovico was awarded with two diplomas, one from University of Uppsala and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
- 23 May 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Olivera Vuković who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Inorganic metal halide perovskite nanocrystals and thin films: photophysics, photovoltaics and environmental impact". Olivera was awarded with two diplomas, one from Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
- 22 May 2023 Congratulations to Thijs van Stralen for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Probing charge density oscillations in the cuprate superconductor Bi-2212 using electron energy loss spectroscopy".
- 22 May 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Xiao Ma who successfully defended his PhD thesis "The origin of dark current and trap states in organic photodiodes".
- 1 May 2023 Alessandro Caiazzo received the prize for the best onsite student talk of the EL20 Symposium on Photo and Radiation Detection with Organic, Perovskite and Nano-crystalline Semiconductors at the recent MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco for his presenation on "Multidimensional Perovskites for High Detectivity Photodiodes"
- 1 May 2023 Congratulations to Ediz Garip for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Optimization and 2D/quasi-2D passivation of inverted FAPbI3-based perovskite solar cells"
- 21 April 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Riccardo Ollearo who very successfully defended his PhD thesis cum laude : "Exploring perovskite photodiodes – device physics and applications".
- 20 April 2023 Congratulations to Rens Cuijpers for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy on a Polar Molecular Crystal".
- 14 April 2023 Today the Dutch national newspaper NRC covered Riccarrdo Ollearo's work on perovskite photodiodes: Here in Eindhoven they make things that don't exist yet
- 3 April 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Bas van Gorkom who successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Highly sensitive photocurrent spectroscopy on hybrid perovskite solar cells" For more info see the news item on the TU/e website
- 28 March 2023 Congratulations to Nico van Rijswijk for successfully defending his MSc thesis "New redox active dicyano anolytes for high energy density and stable non-aqueous redox flow batteries".
- 27 March 2023 The recent paper of Kunal Datta and Alessandro Caiazzo on Light-Induced Halide Segregation in 2D and Quasi-2D Mixed-Halide Perovskites has been highlighted in an Energy Spotlight on New Advances in Metal Halide Perovskites. Please check it out here.
- 23 March 2023 Congratulations to Daniël Grosfeld for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Pure bromide perovskite solar cells".
- 14 March 2023 Congratulations to Stacey Fun who obtained her MSc diploma today.
- 9 March 2023 Congratulations to Luuk Sander for successfully defending his MSc thesis "All-inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite material for multi-junction solar cell applications".
- 1 March 2023 A warm welcome to Laura Bellini who started her PhD today.
- 17 February 2023 Riccardo Ollearo's paper Vitality surveillance at distance using thin-film tandem-like narrowband near-infrared photodiodes with light-enhanced responsivity was published in Science Advances today. At the TU/e website you will find a news item on this paper .
- 25 January 2023 Congratulations to Wouter Vels for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Ideality factor determination in mixed halide triple cation perovskite solar cells"
- 12 January 2023 Wiley's journal Ennvironmental Energy Materials organized a webinar on "Photovoltaics: present status and future perspectives" with contributions of Martin Green (UNSW), Henry Snaith (Oxford) and René Janssen (Eindhoven). A recording is available.
- 3 January 2023 A warm welcome to Nick Schipper who started his PhD today.
- 2 January 2023 A warm welcome to Christian McDonald who started his PhD today.