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Ted Sargent

Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Executive Director, Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research Interests

We advance and deploy materials chemistry and the physical chemistry of materials and surfaces towards three missions:

1. Capturing and utilizing CO2 in order to make efficient CO2-recycling fuels and CO2-sequestering materials.
2. Advancing the performance and the underlying science of high-efficiency solar cells, including perovskite tandem solar cells.
3. Developing sensors, such as for the infrared wavelengths, that exceed in performance that of existing photodetecting materials and devices.

We rely on computational materials science and computational chemistry; AI/ML; the inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials synthesis, physical chemistry, as well as applied physics, in the pursuit of these goals.

Selected Publications

• Teale, Sam; Degani, Matteo; Chen, Bin; Sargent, Edward H.; Grancini, Giulia, Molecular cation and low-dimensional perovskite surface passivation in perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy (2024).
• Papangelakis, Panagiotis; Miao, Rui Kai; Lu, Ruihu; Liu, Hanqi; Wang, Xi; Ozden, Adnan; Liu, Shijie; Sun, Ning; O’Brien, Colin P.; Hu, Yongfeng; Shakouri, Mohsen; Xiao, Qunfeng; Li, Mengsha; Khatir, Behrooz; Huang, Jianan Erick; Wang, Yakun; Xiao, Yurou Celine; Li, Feng; Zeraati, Ali Shayesteh; Zhang, Qiang; Liu, Pengyu; Golovin, Kevin; Howe, Jane Y.; Liang, Hongyan; Wang, Ziyun; Li, Jun; Sargent, Edward H.; Sinton, David, Improving the SO₂ tolerance of CO₂ reduction electrocatalysts using a polymer/catalyst/ionomer heterojunction design, Nature Energy (2024).
• Almutlaq, Jawaher; Liu, Yuan; Mir, Wasim J.; Sabatini, Randy P.; Englund, Dirk; Bakr, Osman M.; Sargent, Edward H., Engineering colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for quantum information processing, Nature nanotechnology (2024).
• Morteza Najarian, Amin; Vafaie, Maral; Chen, Bin; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Sargent, Edward H., Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection, Nature Reviews Physics (2024).
• Wang, Junke; Zeng, Lewei; Zhang, Dong; Maxwell, Aidan; Chen, Hao; Datta, Kunal; Caiazzo, Alessandro; Remmerswaal, Willemijn H.M.; Schipper, Nick R.M.; Chen, Zehua; Ho, Kevin; Dasgupta, Akash; Kusch, Gunnar; Ollearo, Riccardo; Bellini, Laura; Hu, Shuaifeng; Wang, Zaiwei; Li, Chongwen; Teale, Sam; Grater, Luke; Chen, Bin; Wienk, Martijn M.; Oliver, Rachel A.; Snaith, Henry J.; Janssen, René A.J.; Sargent, Edward H., Halide homogenization for low energy loss in 2-eV-bandgap perovskites and increased efficiency in all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells, Nature Energy (2024).
• Muhammad, ; Choi, Dongsun; Parmar, Darshan H.; Rehl, Benjamin; Zhang, Yangning; Atan, Ozan; Kim, Gahyeon; Xia, Pan; Pina, Joao M.; Li, Mengsha; Liu, Yanjiang; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Sargent, Edward H., Halide-Driven Synthetic Control of InSb Colloidal Quantum Dots Enables Short-Wave Infrared Photodetectors, Advanced Materials (2023).
• Fan, Mengyang; Huang, Jianan Erick; Miao, Rui Kai; Mao, Yu; Ou, Pengfei; Li, Feng; Li, Xiao Yan; Cao, Yufei; Zhang, Zishuai; Zhang, Jinqiang; Yan, Yu; Ozden, Adnan; Ni, Weiyan; Wang, Ying; Zhao, Yong; Chen, Zhu; Khatir, Behrooz; O’Brien, Colin P.; Xu, Yi; Xiao, Yurou Celine; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I.N.; Golovin, Kevin; Wang, Ziyun; Sargent, Edward H.; Sinton, David, Cationic-group-functionalized electrocatalysts enable stable acidic CO₂ electrolysis, Nature Catalysis (2023).
• Zhu, Hongwei; Teale, Sam; Lintangpradipto, Muhammad Naufal; Mahesh, Suhas; Chen, Bin; McGehee, Michael D.; Sargent, Edward H.; Bakr, Osman M., Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics, Nature Reviews Materials (2023).
• Chen, Hao; Liu, Cheng; Xu, Jian; Maxwell, Aidan; Zhou, Wei; Yang, Yi; Zhou, Qilin; Bati, Abdulaziz S.R.; Wan, Haoyue; Wang, Zaiwei; Zeng, Lewei; Wang, Junke; Serles, Peter; Liu, Yuan; Teale, Sam; Liu, Yanjiang; Saidaminov, Makhsud I.; Li, Muzhi; Rolston, Nicholas; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Filleter, Tobin; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Chen, Bin; Ning, Zhijun; Sargent, Edward H., Improved charge extraction in inverted perovskite solar cells with dual-site-binding ligands, Science (2024).
• Park, So Min; Wei, Mingyang; Lempesis, Nikolaos; Yu, Wenjin; Hossain, Tareq; Agosta, Lorenzo; Carnevali, Virginia; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Serles, Peter; Eickemeyer, Felix T.; Shin, Heejong; Vafaie, Maral; Choi, Deokjae; Darabi, Kasra; Jung, Eui Dae; Yang, Yi; Kim, Da Bin; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.; Chen, Bin; Amassian, Aram; Filleter, Tobin; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Graham, Kenneth R.; Xiao, Lixin; Rothlisberger, Ursula; Grätzel, Michael; Sargent, Edward H., Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells, Nature (2023).
• Tian, Cong; Dorakhan, Roham; Wicks, Joshua; Chen, Zhu; Choi, Kyoung Shin; Singh, Nirala; Schaidle, Joshua A.; Holewinski, Adam; Vojvodic, Aleksandra; Vlachos, Dionisios G.; Broadbelt, Linda J.; Sargent, Edward H., Progress and roadmap for electro-privileged transformations of bio-derived molecules, Nature Catalysis (2024).
• Liu, Cheng; Yang, Yi; Chen, Hao; Xu, Jian; Liu, Ao; Bati, Abdulaziz S.R.; Zhu, Huihui; Grater, Luke; Hadke, Shreyash Sudhakar; Huang, Chuying; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Cai, Tong; Shin, Donghoon; Chen, Lin X.; Hersam, Mark C.; Mirkin, Chad A.; Chen, Bin; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Sargent, Edward H., Bimolecularly passivated interface enables efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells, Science (2023).
• Lee, Byoung Hoon; Shin, Heejong; Rasouli, Armin Sedighian; Choubisa, Hitarth; Ou, Pengfei; Dorakhan, Roham; Grigioni, Ivan; Lee, Geonhui; Shirzadi, Erfan; Miao, Rui Kai; Wicks, Joshua; Park, Sungjin; Lee, Hyeon Seok; Zhang, Jinqiang; Chen, Yuanjun; Chen, Zhu; Sinton, David; Hyeon, Taeghwan; Sung, Yung Eun; Sargent, Edward H., Supramolecular tuning of supported metal phthalocyanine catalysts for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis, Nature Catalysis (2023).
• Morteza Najarian, Amin; Dinic, Filip; Chen, Hao; Sabatini, Randy; Zheng, Chao; Lough, Alan; Maris, Thierry; Saidaminov, Makhsud I.; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Sargent, Edward H., Homomeric chains of intermolecular bonds scaffold octahedral germanium perovskites, Nature (2023).
• Jiang, Yuanzhi; Sun, Changjiu; Xu, Jian; Li, Saisai; Cui, Minghuan; Fu, Xinliang; Liu, Yuan; Liu, Yaqi; Wan, Haoyue; Wei, Keyu; Zhou, Tong; Zhang, Wei; Yang, Yingguo; Yang, Jien; Qin, Chaochao; Gao, Shuyan; Pan, Jun; Liu, Yufang; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Sargent, Edward H.; Chen, Jun; Yuan, Mingjian, Synthesis-on-substrate of quantum dot solids, Nature (2022).
• Park, So Min; Wei, Mingyang; Xu, Jian; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Eickemeyer, Felix T.; Darabi, Kasra; Grater, Luke; Yang, Yi; Liu, Cheng; Teale, Sam; Chen, Bin; Chen, Hao; Wang, Tonghui; Zeng, Lewei; Maxwell, Aidan; Wang, Zaiwei; Rao, Keerthan R.; Cai, Zhuoyun; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.; Pham, Jonathan T.; Risko, Chad M.; Amassian, Aram; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Graham, Kenneth R.; Grätzel, Michael; Sargent, Edward H., Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells, Science (2023).
• Chen, Hao; Maxwell, Aidan; Li, Chongwen; Teale, Sam; Chen, Bin; Zhu, Tong; Ugur, Esma; Harrison, George; Grater, Luke; Wang, Junke; Wang, Zaiwei; Zeng, Lewei; Park, So Min; Chen, Lei; Serles, Peter; Awni, Rasha Abbas; Subedi, Biwas; Zheng, Xiaopeng; Xiao, Chuanxiao; Podraza, Nikolas J.; Filleter, Tobin; Liu, Cheng; Yang, Yi; Luther, Joseph M.; De Wolf, Stefaan; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Yan, Yanfa; Sargent, Edward H., Regulating surface potential maximizes voltage in all-perovskite tandems, Nature (2023).
• Wang, Zaiwei; Zeng, Lewei; Zhu, Tong; Chen, Hao; Chen, Bin; Kubicki, Dominik J.; Balvanz, Adam; Li, Chongwen; Maxwell, Aidan; Ugur, Esma; dos Reis, Roberto; Cheng, Matthew; Yang, Guang; Subedi, Biwas; Luo, Deying; Hu, Juntao; Wang, Junke; Teale, Sam; Mahesh, Suhas; Wang, Sasa; Hu, Shuangyan; Jung, Eui Dae; Wei, Mingyang; Park, So Min; Grater, Luke; Aydin, Erkan; Song, Zhaoning; Podraza, Nikolas J.; Lu, Zheng Hong; Huang, Jinsong; Dravid, Vinayak P.; De Wolf, Stefaan; Yan, Yanfa; Grätzel, Michael; Kanatzidis, Merx G.; Sargent, Edward H., Suppressed phase segregation for triple-junction perovskite solar cells, Nature (2023).
• Jin, Jian; Wicks, Joshua; Min, Qiuhong; Li, Jun; Hu, Yongfeng; Ma, Jingyuan; Wang, Yu; Jiang, Zheng; Xu, Yi; Lu, Ruihu; Si, Gangzheng; Papangelakis, Panagiotis; Shakouri, Mohsen; Xiao, Qunfeng; Ou, Pengfei; Wang, Xue; Chen, Zhu; Zhang, Wei; Yu, Kesong; Song, Jiayang; Jiang, Xiaohang; Qiu, Peng; Lou, Yuanhao; Wu, Dan; Mao, Yu; Ozden, Adnan; Wang, Chundong; Xia, Bao Yu; Hu, Xiaobing; Dravid, Vinayak P.; Yiu, Yun Mui; Sham, Tsun Kong; Wang, Ziyun; Sinton, David; Mai, Liqiang; Sargent, Edward H.; Pang, Yuanjie, Constrained C₂ adsorbate orientation enables CO-to-acetate electroreduction, Nature (2023).
• Chen, Hao; Teale, Sam; Chen, Bin; Hou, Yi; Grater, Luke; Zhu, Tong; Bertens, Koen; Park, So Min; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Gao, Yajun; Wei, Mingyang; Johnston, Andrew K.; Zhou, Qilin; Xu, Kaimin; Yu, Danni; Han, Congcong; Cui, Teng; Jung, Eui Hyuk; Zhou, Chun; Zhou, Wenjia; Proppe, Andrew H.; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Laquai, Frédéric; Filleter, Tobin; Graham, Kenneth R.; Ning, Zhijun; Sargent, Edward H., Quantum-size-tuned heterostructures enable efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells, Nature Photonics (2022).
• Morteza Najarian, Amin; Vafaie, Maral; Johnston, Andrew; Zhu, Tong; Wei, Mingyang; Saidaminov, Makhsud I.; Hou, Yi; Hoogland, Sjoerd; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Sargent, Edward H., Sub-millimetre light detection and ranging using perovskites, Nature Electronics (2022).
• Ma, Dongxin; Lin, Kebin; Dong, Yitong; Choubisa, Hitarth; Proppe, Andrew H.; Wu, Dan; Wang, Ya Kun; Chen, Bin; Li, Peicheng; Fan, James Z.; Yuan, Fanglong; Johnston, Andrew; Liu, Yuan; Kang, Yuetong; Lu, Zheng Hong; Wei, Zhanhua; Sargent, Edward H., Distribution control enables efficient reduced-dimensional perovskite LEDs, Nature (2021).
• Lin, Renxing; Xu, Jian; Wei, Mingyang; Wang, Yurui; Qin, Zhengyuan; Liu, Zhou; Wu, Jinlong; Xiao, Ke; Chen, Bin; Park, So Min; Chen, Gang; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Graham, Kenneth R.; Xu, Jun; Zhu, Jia; Li, Ludong; Zhang, Chunfeng; Sargent, Edward H.; Tan, Hairen, All-perovskite tandem solar cells with improved grain surface passivation, Nature (2022).
• Sun, Bin; Najarian, Amin Morteza; Sagar, Laxmi Kishore; Biondi, Margherita; Choi, Min Jae; Li, Xiyan; Levina, Larissa; Baek, Se Woong; Zheng, Chao; Lee, Seungjin; Kirmani, Ahmad R.; Sabatini, Randy; Abed, Jehad; Liu, Mengxia; Vafaie, Maral; Li, Peicheng; Richter, Lee J.; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Chekini, Mahshid; Lu, Zheng Hong; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Sargent, Edward H., Fast Near-Infrared Photodetection Using III–V Colloidal Quantum Dots, Advanced Materials (2022).
• Wakerley, David; Lamaison, Sarah; Wicks, Joshua; Clemens, Auston; Feaster, Jeremy; Corral, Daniel; Jaffer, Shaffiq A.; Sarkar, Amitava; Fontecave, Marc; Duoss, Eric B.; Baker, Sarah; Sargent, Edward H.; Jaramillo, Thomas F.; Hahn, Christopher, Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO₂ electrolysers, Nature Energy (2022).
• Xie, Yi; Ou, Pengfei; Wang, Xue; Xu, Zhanyou; Li, Yuguang C.; Wang, Ziyun; Huang, Jianan Erick; Wicks, Joshua; McCallum, Christopher; Wang, Ning; Wang, Yuhang; Chen, Tianxiang; Lo, Benedict T.W.; Sinton, David; Yu, Jimmy C.; Wang, Ying; Sargent, Edward H., High carbon utilization in CO₂ reduction to multi-carbon products in acidic media, Nature Catalysis (2022).
• Ozden, Adnan; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Huang, Jianan Erick; Wicks, Joshua; Sisler, Jared; Miao, Rui Kai; O’Brien, Colin P.; Lee, Geonhui; Wang, Xue; Ip, Alexander H.; Sargent, Edward H.; Sinton, David, Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers, Nature Sustainability (2022).