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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

• 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).