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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 UV and 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

• Baxter, Amanda F.; Abed, Jehad; Fraga Alvarez, Daniela V.; Zhou, Daojin; Kuvar, Dhruti; Sargent, Edward H.; Esposito, Daniel V., Nanoscopic Silicon Oxide Overlayers Improve the Performance of Ruthenium Oxide Electrocatalysts Toward the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Journal of the Electrochemical Society (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., Publisher Correction, Nature (2023).
• Khan, Asif Abdullah; Rana, Md Masud; Wang, Sasa; Fattah, Md Fahim Al; Kayaharman, Muhammed; Zhang, Kaiping; Benedict, Shawn; Goldthorpe, I. A.; Zhou, Y. Norman; Sargent, Edward H.; Ban, Dayan, Control of Halogen Atom in Inorganic Metal-Halide Perovskites Enables Large Piezoelectricity for Electromechanical Energy Generation, Small (2023).
• Badreldin, Ahmed; Abed, Jehad; Hassan, Noor; El-Ghenymy, Abdellatif; Suwaileh, Wafa; Wubulikasimu, Yiming; Ghouri, Zafar Khan; Youssef, Karim; Kumar, Dharmesh; Elsaid, Khaled; Sargent, Edward H.; Abdel-Wahab, Ahmed, Sulfide interlayered cobalt-based oxynitrides for efficient oxygen evolution reaction in neutral pH water and seawater, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2023).
• Yu, Wenjin; Wei, Mingyang; Tang, Zhenyu; Zou, Hongshuai; Li, Liang; Zou, Yu; Yang, Shuang; Wang, Yunkun; Zhang, Yuqing; Li, Xiangdong; Guo, Haoqing; Wu, Cuncun; Qu, Bo; Gao, Yunan; Lu, Guowei; Wang, Shufeng; Chen, Zhijian; Liu, Zhiwei; Zhou, Huanping; Wei, Bin; Liao, Yingjie; Zhang, Lijun; Li, Yan; Gong, Qihuang; Sargent, Edward H.; Xiao, Lixin, Separating Crystal Growth from Nucleation Enables the In Situ Controllable Synthesis of Nanocrystals for Efficient Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes, Advanced Materials (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).
• 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).
• Xia, Pan; Sun, Bin; Biondi, Margherita; Xu, Jian; Atan, Ozan; Imran, Muhammad; Hassan, Yasser; Liu, Yanjiang; Pina, Joao M.; Najarian, Amin Morteza; Grater, Luke; Bertens, Koen; Sagar, Laxmi Kishore; Anwar, Husna; Choi, Min Jae; Zhang, Yangning; Hasham, Minhal; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Wilson, Mark W.B.; Sargent, Edward H., Sequential Co-Passivation in InAs Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids Enables Efficient Near-Infrared Photodetectors, Advanced Materials (2023).