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Inaugural Chemistry of Materials Best Paper LectureshipKai Zhu and Zhen Li, and the Tuning of Perovskite Solar Cells he first Chemistry of Materials Best Paper Lectureship took place at the fall 2017 ACS meeting in Washington, DC, where it was hosted by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC), on the topic of perovskite solar cells (Table 1). The goal
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Table 1. Lectureship Award Symposium on Perovskite Solar Cells Speaker Kai Zhu, NREL (award winner) Zhen Li, NREL (award winner) Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame Yanfa Yan, University of Toledo Matt Beard, NREL Nitin Padture, Brown University
Figure 1. Presentation of the award plaque to the two lectureship winners. From left to right, Editor-in-Chief Jillian Buriak, Managing Editor Carlos Toro, Division of Inorganic Chemistry chair, John Protasiewicz, and winners Kai Zhu (corresponding author) and Zhen Li (first author).
Title Perovskite photovoltaics: Materials, cells and modules Extrinsic ion migration in perovskite solar cells Halide ion exchange and migration in mixed halide lead perovskites Pb-free and less Pb perovskite thin-film solar cells: Theory and devices Time-resolved optical studies of perovskite polycrystalline films, single crystals and their surfaces Tailoring of microstructures and grain-boundary networks in hybrid-perovskite thin films for efficient, stable solar cells
of the annual lectureship is to recognize not only scientific excellence, but also the contribution of the entire team. The lead (corresponding) author and the first author of the winning paper were invited to present their work in a symposium on perovskite solar cells, in their honor. The winners, Kai Zhu and Zhen Li, coauthored a 2016 paper entitled “Stabilizing Perovskite Structures by Tuning Tolerance Factor: Formation of Formamidinium and Cesium Lead Iodide Solid-State Alloys” (Figures 1 and 2).1 This work is one of our most highly downloaded papers2 and was recognized by the selection committee as providing incredibly important and fundamental insights into rationally tuning the properties of these fascinating materials. Next year’s Chemistry of Materials lectureship in 2018 will be hosted by the PMSE Division (Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division), and thus the preference will be for materials chemistry papers that would resonate with this division, such as soft matter, polymeric materials, hybrid soft−hard materials, and biomaterials. The lectureship alternates each year between the DIC and PMSE division to capture the best papers in both hard and soft materials, respectively. Congratulations to the winners and the co-authors of this high impact paper, and © 2017 American Chemical Society
Figure 2. Winners, speakers, and Chemistry of Materials editors of the lectureship symposium. From left to right, Yanfa Yan, Jillian Buriak, Zhen Li, Kai Zhu, Prashant Kamat, Carlos Toro, Nitin Padture, and Matt Beard.
thanks to everyone who participated in a very successful symposium.
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Carlos Toro, Managing Editor Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Jillian M. Buriak: 0000-0002-9567-4328 Published: September 26, 2017 7631
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03584 Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 7631−7632
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(1) Li, Z.; Yang, M.; Park, J.-S.; Wei, S.-H.; Berry, J. J.; Zhu, K. Stabilizing Perovskite Structures by Tuning Tolerance Factor: Formation of Formamidinium and Cesium Lead Iodide Solid-State Alloys. Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 284−292. (2) As per our “most read” list for the past 12 months. Reference 1 is #10 on this list (out of over 1000 papers published in the past 12 months). http://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostReadArticles?topArticlesType=recent&journalCode=cmatex.
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