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.
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Upcoming events
Dimitar Georgiev will defend his MSc thesis "New redox active organic molecules with deep reduction potential as anolytes for RFBs" on Tuesday May 6, 2023 at 9:00 in Helix STW 4.91
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.
Alessandro Caiazzo will defend his PhD thesis "2D and Quasi-2D Perovskites for Optoelectronic Devices" on Tuesday June 27, 2023 at 11:00 h in Atlas 0.710.
Bruno Pinto Branco will defend his PhD thesis "Solar–driven water electrolysis: new multijunction solar cells and electrolysis materials" on Tuesday September 19, 2023 at 11:00 h in Atlas 0.710.
News
- May 30, 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.
- May 23, 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.
- May 22, 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"
- May 22, 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Xiao Ma who successfully defended his PhD thesis "The origin of dark current and trap states in organic photodiodes".
- May 1, 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"
- May 1, 2023 Congratulations to Ediz Garip for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Optimization and 2D/quasi-2D passivation of inverted FAPbI3-based perovskite solar cells"
- April 21, 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Riccardo Ollearo who very successfully defended his PhD thesis cum laude : "Exploring perovskite photodiodes – device physics and applications".
- April 20, 2023 Congratulations to Rens Cuijpers for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy on a Polar Molecular Crystal".
- April, 14, 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
- April, 3, 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
- March 28, 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".
- March 27, 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.
- March 23, 2023 Congratulations to Daniël Grosfeld for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Pure bromide perovskite solar cells".
- March 9, 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 .
- 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.
- 2 January 2023 A warm welcome to Christian McDonald who started his PhD today.
- 3 January 2023 A warm welcome to Nick Schipper 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 website.
- 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