Publications

2024

48. On the Synergistic Interplay Between Annealing Temperature and Time and Additive Concentration for Efficient and Stable FAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells

Riccardo Pallotta, Matteo Degano, Francesco Toniolo, Silvia Cavalli, Federico Turci, Wen Hua Bi, Alessandro Girella, Chiara Milanese, Andreas Schüler, Arnaud Magrez & Giulia Grancini

Materials Today Advances

47. Photo-ferroelectric perovskite interfaces for boosting VOC in efficient perovskite solar cells

Giovanni Pica, Lorenzo Pancini, Christopher E. Petoukhoff, Badri Vishal, Francesco Toniolo, Changzeng Ding, Young-Kwang Jung, Mirko Prato, Nada Mrkyvkova, Peter Siffalovic, Stefaan De Wolf, Chang-Qi Ma, Frédéric Laquai, Aron Walsh & Giulia Grancini

Nature communications

46. Machine learning for screening and predicting the best surface modifiers for a rational optimization of efficient perovskite solar cells

Mattia Ragni, Fabiola Faini, Matteo Degani, Silvia Cavalli, Ian Postuma & Giulia Grancini

APL Energy 

45. Hybrid halide perovskite, a game changer for future solar energy?  

Fabiola Faini, Valentina Larini, Alice Scardina & Giulia Grancini

MRS Bulletin

43. Unraveling Bulk versus Surface Passivation Effects in Highly Efficient p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells Using Thiophene-Based Cations

Giovanni Pica, Riccardo Montecucco, Andrea Zanetta, Aleksandra Oranskaia, Fabiola Faini, Lorenzo Pancini, Nada Mrkyvkova, Peter Siffalovic, Pia Dally, Valentina Pirota, Martin Ledinsky, Michele De Bastiani, Stefaan De Wolf, Filippo Doria, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Giulia Grancini

Solar RRL

2023

41. The effect of crystallite size on the flexibility and negative compressibility of hydrophobic metal-organic framework

Johnson Liam; Mirani Diego; Le Donne Andrea; Bartolome Luis; Amayuelas Eder; Lopez Gabriel; Grancini Giulia; Carter Marcus; Yakovenko Andrey; Trump Benjamin; Meloni Simone; Zajdel Pawel; Grosu Yaroslav

Nano Letters

39. The Stabilization of CsPbI3−xBrx Phase by Lowering Annealing Temperature for Efficient All-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

Riccardo Montecucco, Giovanni Pica, Valentino Romano, Francesco De Boni, Silvia Cavalli, Giovanna Bruni, Eleonora Quadrivi, Michele De Bastiani, Mirko Prato, Riccardo Po, Giulia Grancini

Solar RRL

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/solr.202300358

 

38. Sustainable and Circular Management of Perovskite Solar Cells via Green Recycling of Electron Transport Layer-Coated Transparent Conductive Oxide

Valentina Larini, Changzeng Ding, Fabiola Faini, Giovanni Pica, Giovanna Bruni, Lorenzo Pancini, Silvia Cavalli, Matteo Manzi, Matteo Degani, Riccardo Pallotta, Michele De Bastiani, Chang-Qi Ma, Giulia Grancini

Adv. Funct. Mater.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202306040https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021979723006422?via%3Dihub

 

36. High-sensitivity visualization of ultrafast carrier diffusion by widefield holographic microscopy

Franco V. A. Camargo,  Martin Hörmann, Federico Visentin, Andrea Zanetta, Giulia Grancini, Johann Osmond, Niek van Hulst, Liebel, M., Giulio Nicola Cerullo

Ultrafast Science

 

35. Optimization of the Wetting-Drying Characteristics of Hydrophobic Metal Organic Frameworks via Crystallite Size: The Role of Hydrogen Bonding between Intruded and Bulk Liquid

Liam J.W. Johnson, Gonçalo Paulo, Luis Bartolomé, Eder Amayuelas, Alberto Gubbiotti, Diego Mirani, Andrea Le Donne, Gabriel A. López, Giulia Grancini, Paweł Zajdel, Simone Meloni, Alberto Giacomello, Yaroslav Grosu

34. Uncovering temperature-dependent exciton-polariton relaxation mechanisms in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites

Madeleine Laitz, Alexander E. K. Kaplan, Jude Deschamps, Ulugbek Barotov, Andrew H. Proppe, Inés García-Benito, Anna Osherov, Giulia Grancini, Dane W. deQuilettes, Keith A. Nelson, Moungi G. Bawendi & Vladimir Bulović

33. An innovative strategic route to the green synthesis of CsPbBr3 films on rigid and flexible substrates

Lorenzo Sirna, Anna L. Pellegrino, Francesca Lo Presti, Fabiola Faini, Giulia Grancini, Giuseppe Bengasi, Marina Foti, Graziella Malandrino

32. Ferroelectricity in Hybrid Perovskites

Matteo Manzi, Giovanni Pica, Michele De Bastiani, Soumya Kundu, Giulia Grancini, and Makhsud I. Saidaminov

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 3535−3552

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00566

31. Addressing the Role of 2D Domains in High-Dimensionality Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite for Solar Cells

Gianluca Bravetti, Davide Altamura, Barbara Paci, Amanda Generosi, Sonia Carallo, Marco Guaragno, Giuseppe Gigli, Andrea Listorti, Giulia Grancini, Cinzia Giannini, Silvia Colella, Aurora Rizzo

2022

30. Enhancing charge extraction in inverted perovskite solar cells contacts via ultrathin graphene:fullerene composite interlayers

Andrea Zanetta, Isabella Bulfaro, Fabiola Faini, Matteo Manzi, Giovanni Pica, Michele De Bastiani, Sebastiano Bellani, Marilena Isabella Zappia, Gabriele Bianca, Luca Gabatel, Jaya-Kumar Panda, Antonio Esaú Del Rio Castillo, Mirko Prato, Simone Lauciello, Francesco Bonaccorso and Giulia Grancini

29. Rising of halide perovskite epitaxial structures

Michele De Bastiani, Giulia Grancini

Nat. Mater. 21, 1000–1002 (2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01331-0

28. Boosting Perovskite Solar Cells Efficiency and Stability: Interfacial Passivation of Crosslinked Fullerene Eliminates the “burn-in” Decay

Changzeng Ding, Li Yin, Jinlong Wang, Valentina Larini, Lianping Zhang, Rong Huang, Mathias Nyman, Liyi Zhao, Chun Zhao, Weishi Li, Qun Luo, Yanbin Shen, Ronald Österbacka, Giulia Grancini, Chang-Qi Ma

27. Tuning Halide Composition Allows Low Dark Current Perovskite Photodetectors With High Specific Detectivity

Francesco Furlan, Davide Nodari, Emanuele Palladino, Edoardo Angela, Lokeshwari Mohan, Joe Briscoe, Matthew J. Fuchter, Thomas J. Macdonald, Giulia Grancini, Martyn A. McLachlan, Nicola Gasparini

26.Turning Molecular Springs into Nano-Shock Absorbers: The Effect of Macroscopic Morphology and Crystal Size on the Dynamic Hysteresis of Water Intrusion–Extrusion into-from Hydrophobic Nanopores

Paweł Zajdel, David G. Madden, Robin Babu, Marco Tortora, Diego Mirani, Nikolay Nikolaevich Tsyrin, Luis Bartolomé, Eder Amayuelas, David Fairen-Jimenez, Alexander Rowland Lowe, Mirosław Chorążewski, Juscelino B. Leao, Craig M. Brown, Markus Bleuel, Victor Stoudenets, Carlo Massimo Casciola, María Echeverría, Francisco Bonilla, Giulia Grancini, Simone Meloni, and Yaroslav Grosu

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c04314

25.Imaging and quantifying non-radiative losses at 23% efficient inverted perovskite solar cells interfaces  

Stefania Cacovich , Guillaume Vidon , Matteo Degani, Marie Legrand, Laxman Gouda, Jean-Baptiste Puel, Yana Vaynzof , Jean-François Guillemoles , Daniel Ory, Giulia Grancini.

ncomms (2022)13:286

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30426-0.epdf

24. From Bulk to Surface Passivation: Double Role of Chlorine-Doping for Boosting Efficiency of FAPbI3-rich Perovskite Solar Cells 

Valentina Larini, Matteo Degani, Giovanni Pica, Changzeng Ding, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Fabiola Faini, Samuel D. Stranks, Chang-Qi Ma, Giulia Grancini.

Sol. RRL 2022, 2200038;

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/solr.202200038

23. Rationalizing the design and implementation of chiral hybrid perovskites

Adriana Pietropaolo, Alessandro Mattoni, Giovanni Pica, Mariagrazia Fortino, Gioacchino Schifino, Giulia Grancini.

Chem 8, 1–23, May 12, 2022;

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451929422000444?dgcid=coauthor

2021

21. Revealing Weak Dimensional Confinement Effects in Excitonic Silver/Bismuth Double Perovskites

Martina PantalerValentin Diez-CabanesValentin I. E. QuelozAlbertus SutantoPascal Alexander SchouwinkMariachiara PastoreInés García-BenitoMohammad Khaja NazeeruddinDavid BeljonneDoru C. LupascuClaudio QuartiGiulia Grancini

JACS Au., 2021

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacsau.1c00429

20. 23.7% Efficient inverted perovskite solar cells by dual interfacial modification

Matteo Degani, Qingzhi An, Miguel Albaladejo-Siguan, Yvonne J. Hofstetter, Changsoon Cho, Fabian Paulus, Giulia Grancini, Yana Vaynzof

Sci. Adv.7, 2021

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abj7930

19. Manipulating Color Emission in 2D Hybrid Perovskites by Fine Tuning Halide Segregation: A Transparent Green Emitter

Andrea Zanetta, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Valentina Pirota, Giovanni Pica, Felix Utama Kosasih, Laxman Gouda, Kyle Frohna, Caterina Ducati, Filippo Doria, Samuel D. Stranks, Giulia Grancini

Adv. Mater. 2021, 2105942

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CS00106Jhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202105942

18. Nonmonotonic Photostability of BA2MAn–1PbnI3n+1 Homologous Layered Perovskites

Natalia N. Udalova, Sergey A. Fateev, Elizaveta M. Nemygina, Andrea Zanetta, Giulia Grancini, Eugene A. Goodilin,  Alexey B. Tarasov

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.1c20043

17. Solution-processed two-dimensional materials for next generation photovoltaics

Sebastiano Bellani, Antonino Bartolotta, Antonio Agresti, Giuseppe Calogero,  Giulia Grancini, Aldo Di Carlo, Emmanuel Kymakis and Francesco Bonaccorso

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021 

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CS00106J

16. All-Inorganic Cesium-Based Hybrid Perovskites for Efficient and Stable Solar Cells and modules

R. Montecucco,  E. Quadrivi, R. Po’, G Grancini

Adv. Energy Mater. 2021, 2100672

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/tc/d0tc04552g/unauth#!divAbstract

15. 2D/3D Perovskite Engineering Eliminates Interfacial Recombination Losses in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

A. A. Sutanto, P. Caprioglio, N. Drigo, Y. J. Hofstetter, I. Garcia-Benito, V. I. E. Queloz, D. Neher, M. K. Nazeeruddin, M. Stolterfoht, Y. Vaynzof, G. Grancini

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/tc/d0tc04552g/unauth#!divAbstract

14. Accelerated Thermal Aging Effects on Carbon-Based Perovskite Solar cell: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Analysis

G. Pica,  M. Degani, G. Schileo, A. Girella, C. Milanese, D. Martineau, L. C. Andreani, G Grancini

Sol. RRL, 2021, 5, DOI: 10.1002/solr.202000759

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/tc/d0tc04552g/unauth#!divAbstract

13. Bi-functional interfaces by poly(ionic liquid) treatment in efficient pin and nip perovskite solar cells

Pietro Caprioglio, Daniel Saul Cruz, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Fengshuo Zu, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Francisco Peña-Camargo, Lukas Kegelmann, Daniele Meggiolaro, Luca Gregori, Christian M. Wolff, Burkhard Stiller, Lorena Perdigón-Toro, Hans Köbler, Bor Li, Emilio Gutierrez-Partida, Iver Lauermann, Antonio Abate, Norbert Koch, Filippo De Angelis, Bernd Rech, Giulia Grancini, Daniel Abou-Ras, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Martin Stolterfoht, Steve Albrecht, Markus Antonietti, Dieter Neher

Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 4508–4522

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ee/d1ee00869b

2020

12. Lead or No Lead? Availability, Toxicity, Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Lead-Free Perovskites Solar Cells

G. Schileo,  G Grancini

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TC04552G

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/tc/d0tc04552g/unauth#!divAbstract

11. Two-Step Thermal Annealing: An Effective Route for 15 % Efficient Quasi-2D Perovskite Solar Cells

V. Romano, L. Najafi, A. A. Sutanto, G. Schileo, V. Queloz, S. Bellano, M. Prato, S. Marras, M. K. Nazeeruddin, G. D’Angelo, F. Bonaccorso, G. Grancini

ChemPlusChem 2021, 86, 1 – 6

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelandihttps://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplu.202000777ng/2020/tc/d0tc04552g/unauth#!divAbstract

10. Dealing with Lead in Hybrid Perovskite: A Challenge to Tackle for a Bright Future of This Technology?

K Dedecker,  G Grancini

Adv. Energy Mater., https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202001471

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aenm.202001471

9. Spatial Charge Separation as the Origin of Anomalous Stark Effect in Fluorous 2D Hybrid Perovskites

V Queloz,  M Bouduban,  I García‐Benito,  A Fedorovskiy,  S Orlandi,  M Cavazzini,  G Pozzi,  H Trivedi,  D Lupascu,  D Beljonne,  J Moser,  M Nazeeruddin,  C Quarti,  G Grancini

Adv. Funct. Mater., https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202000228

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202000228

8. In Situ Analysis Reveals the Role of 2D Perovskite in Preventing Thermal-Induced Degradation in 2D/3D Perovskite Interfaces

AA Sutanto, R Szostak, N Drigo, V Queloz, P MarcheziJ. C Germino, H Tolentino, M Nazeeruddin, A Nogueira and G Grancini

Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01271

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01271

7. Fluorination of organic spacer impacts on the structural and optical response of 2D perovskites

I Garcìa-Benito, C Quarti, V Queloz, Y Hoffstetter, D Becker-Koch, P Caprioglio, D Neher, S Orlandi, M Cavazzini, G Pozzi, J Even, M Nazeeruddin, G Grancini, Y Vaynzof

Front. Chem, DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00946

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2019.00946/abstract

6. Vacuum-induced degradation of 2D perovskites

Y Hoffstetter, I Garcìa-Benito, F Paulus, S Orlandi, G Grancini, Y Vaynzof

Front. Chem, DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00066

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.00066/abstract

5. Halide perovskites: Current issues and new strategies to push material and device stability

G Schileo, G Grancini

J. Phys. Energy, DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ab6cc4

articlelanding/2020/ta/c9ta12489f#!divAbstract

4. Green Emitting Lead-Free Cs4SnBr6 Zero-Dimensional Perovskite Nanocrystals with Improved Air Stability

R Chiara, Y Ciftci, V Queloz, M Nazeeruddin, G Grancini, and L Malavasi

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03685 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03685

3. Dynamical Evolution of the 2D/3D Interface: A Hidden Driver behind Perovskite Solar Cell Instability

AA Sutanto, N Drigo, V Queloz, I Garcia-Benito, AR Kirmani, L Richter, G Grancini

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/C9TA12489F

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ta/c9ta12489f#!divAbstract

2. Exploring the Role of Halide Mixing in Lead-Free BzA2SnX4 Two Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites

L Malavasi, A Pisanu, M Coduri, M Morana, YO Ciftci, A Rizzo, A Listorti, G Grancini

 J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C9TA11923J 

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ta/c9ta11923j

1. Band- Bending Induced Passivation: High Performance and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Usig a Perhydropoly (Silazane) Precursor

H Kanda, N Shibayama, AJ Huckaba, Y Lee, S Paek, N Klipfel, G Grancini

Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/C9EE02028D

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ee/c9ee02028d