June 2022 – Materials Physics for Energy Management

Dr. Mohite was presented the 2022 DOE Annual Merit Review award for innovation in hydrogen production technology

Categories: Awards and Recognition

This award is presented to Dr. Aditya Mohite of Rice University for achieving an integrated halide perovskite photoelectrochemical cell with record-setting solar-driven water-splitting efficiency of 20.8%. Mohite’s system exhibited extended durability due to a novel graphite anticorrosion barrier that translates >99% of photoelectric power directly to hydrogen production. His work increasing the durability and efficiency…

Graduate students Hao and Siraj present their work at the Gordon Research Conference 2022!

Categories: Talks

Graduate students Hao Zhang and Siraj Sidhik presented their work on creating phase pure 2D hybrid halide perovskites and understanding their light-induced ultrafast lattice ordering at the Unconventional Semiconductors. Hao was also among the best poster presenters during the 4-day conference!…

Dr. Mohite presented his work on “The Rise of 2D halide perovskites” in the Symposium X of Spring MRS 2022!

Categories: Talks

Dr. Mohite spoke about the work in the lab over the past five years on 2D-HaPs ranging from the fundamental light-induced structural behaviors, and solvation dynamics to control homogeneity of layer thickness, novel photo-physical behaviors, and charge transport and their role in the high-efficiency optoelectronic device, with technologically relevant durability. He also presented key challenges…

Congratulations Andrew on defending his Masters thesis!

Categories: Awards and Recognition

Andrew Torma is a 3rd year PhD student in the Applied Physics Program. He recently defended his master’s thesis on “Nanoimaging to Determine the interstitial nature of Mn(II) doping in 2D halide perovskites”…

Congratulations!! First year PhD student Jessica Persaud is the latest recipient of NSF GRFP 2022!

Categories: Awards and Recognition

Jessica is one of the 38 students from Rice who were awarded NSF GRFP 2022. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department and will work on 3D and 3D-2D halide perovskite heterostructures for photovoltaic and other optoelectronic devices. https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/nsf-awards-38-graduate-research-fellowships-rice-students…

Graduate students Austin, Bin, and Hao present their work at the Spring MRS 2022 conference in Hawaii !!

Categories: Talks

4th-year Ph.D. student Austin presented his team’s work on unassisted water splitting using halide perovskite photoelectrochemical reactors. 4th year Ph.D. student Bin presented his paper’s work on Light-induced interlayer contraction in two-dimensional halide perovskites. 4th year Ph.D. student Hao presented his work on visualizing Light induced ultrafast lattice ordering using ultrafast electron diffraction….