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
Luuk Sander will present his MSc thesis "All-inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite material for multi-junction solar cell applications" on Thursday February 23, 2023 at 14:00 h in Helix STW 4.91.
Bas van Gorkom will defend his PhD thesis "Highly sensitive photocurrent spectroscopy on hybrid perovskite solar cells" on Monday April 3, 2023 at 13:30 h in Atlas 0.710.
Riccardo Ollearo will defend his PhD thesis "Exploring perovskite photodiodes – device physics and applications" on Friday April 21, 2023 at 16:00 h in Atlas 0.710.
Xiao Ma will defend his PhD thesis "The origin of dark current and trap states in organic photodiodes" on Monday May 22, 2023 at 11:00 h in Atlas 0.710.
Olivera Vuković will defend her PhD thesis "Inorganic metal halide perovskite nanocrystals and thin films: photophysics, photovoltaics and environmental impact" on Tuesday May 23, 2023 at 11:00 h in Atlas 0.710.
Ludovico Riccardi will defend his PhD thesis "Molecular copper and ruthenium water oxidation electrocatalysts for light-driven water splitting" on Tuesday May 30, 2023 at 13:30 h in the Senaatszaaal of the Auditorium.
Nicolas Daub will defend his PhD thesis "Towards a more sustainable world: New organic molecules for nonaqueous redox flow batteries" on Wednesday June 14, 2023 at 13:30 h in Atlas 0.710.
News
- January 25, 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. - 15 December 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Christoph Hauenstein who successfully defended his PhD thesis: Simulations of excitonic processes in thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting diodes
For more info see the news item at the TU/e wbsite. - 13 December 2022
In the December issue of Solar Magazine you can read about TKI project Limitless on silicon-perovskite solar cells that we do together with TNO, Hanwha Q CELLS, Morphotonics, and Tempress Systems. - 7 December 2022
PV magazine higlighted our work on Monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells for water splitting together with TU Delft, TNO, and the PMP group at TU Eindhoven. The paper with Kunal Datta, Bruno Branco, and Yifeng Zhao as joint first-authors has been published in Advanced Materials Technologies. - 16 November 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Zehua Chen who succesfully defended his PhD thesis: "Thermodynamics and kinetics of halide segregation in perovskite solar cells under operation" - 9 November 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Tom van der Pol who defended his PhD thesis “The optoelectronic characterization of organic and perovskite thin film semiconductors and photovoltaic devices”
For more info see the news item at the TU/e website - 9 November 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Xuan Zhou who successfully defended her PhD thesis “High-throughput computational screening of organic molecules for organic ion battery cathodes”
For more info see the news item at the TU/e website - 15 October 2022
The national news paper de Volkskrant reported on our research towards artificial photosynthesis - 10 October 2022
A warm welcome to Guus Aalbers who started his PhD today. - 1 October 2022
We welcome Junke Wang who will work as a postdoc on tandem perovskite solar cells in the SuPerTandem EU project - 27 September 2022
Four terminal perovskite-silicon PV tandem devices hit 30% efficiency - 22 September 2022
PV magazine highlighted the review paper of Alessandro Caiazzo on High efficiency quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite solar cells published in Advanced Energy Materials. - 20 September 2022
Congratulations to Donggeon Lee and Guus Aalbers who received their MSc diplomas today. - 2 September 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Kunal Datta, who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Mixed-halide lead perovskite semiconductors for multijunction photovoltaics” today. - 1 June 2022
A warm welcome to Hiroki Tomita who started his PhD today. - 19 April 2022
The paper of Tom van der Pol "The intrinsic photoluminescence spectrum of perovskite films" in Advanced Optical Materials was accompanied by a nice back cover. - 24 March 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Robbert Schoo, who successfully defended his PhD thesis Spontaneous charge ordering in partially hydrogenated, compressed graphene on SiC: Experiments on graphene pushed to the limits today. - 22 March 2022
Congratulations to Lana Kessels! She received her MSc diploma today. - 17 March 2022
The paper of Kunal Datta & Junke Wang "Monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells with minimized optical and energetic losses" in Advanced Materials was accompanied by a nice inside back cover. - 15 March 2022
A warm welcome to Lana Kessels who started her PhD today. - 4 February 4 2022
SEQUOIA will make OLEDs super efficient. - 17 January 2022
Bas van Gorkom's paper Revealing defective interfaces in perovskite solar cells from highly sensitive sub-bandgap photocurrent spectroscopy using optical cavities was published in Nature Communications today. - 17 January 2022
A warm welcome to Clint van Hoesel who started his PhD today.
These and older new items can also be found here.