Professor

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin in 2020
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Thumboor, India
NationalityIndian-Swiss
OccupationFull Professor
Known forPerovskite solar cells
Light-emitting diodes.
Academic background
EducationChemistry
Alma materOsmania University
Academic work
DisciplineChemistry
Sub-disciplineMaterials science
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Main interestsDye-sensitized solar cells
Perovskite solar cells
Light-emitting diodes
Molecular engineering of functional materials
Websitehttps://gmf.epfl.ch/

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin (born 1957 in Thumboor, Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian-Swiss chemist and materials scientist who conducts research on Perovskite solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and light-emitting diodes. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the director of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials at School of Basic Sciences.[1][2][3]

Career

Nazeeruddin received a PhD in chemistry from the Osmania University in Hyderabad, Indiaserved as a lecturer at Osmania University for two years. He then joined the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar, India. In 1987 he joined EPFL first as a postdoctoral fellow and then held several positions as research fellow for seven years. In 2012, he was promoted to "Maître d’ Enseignement et de Recherche" (senior lecturer). Since 2014 he has served as full professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and head of the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials at School of Basic Sciences based at EPFL's Valais campus.[1][2][3]

He has also had several affiliated and voluntary positions while working and employed at EPFL, such as World Class University Professor (2009–2014) and as BKPLUS 21 (2014–2019) at the Department of Advanced Materials, Chemistry of the Korea University, and as Visiting Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2014–2021) and at the North China Electric Power University (2014–2021), and as an eminent professor at Brunei.[4][5][6]

Research

Nazeeruddin's research focuses on chemical engineering of functional materials for photovoltaic and light-emitting applications such as Perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells, and light-emitting diodes.[7]

His team conducts research in the area of inorganic chemistry of ruthenium sensitizers that convert solar energy through the use of high surface area nanocrystalline mesoscopic films of oxide semiconductors. These tailored-sensitizers have attracted additional research in dye-sensitized solar cell research. They have synthesized several ruthenium sensitizers (N3, N719 and N749),[8][9][10], donor-π-bridge-acceptor porphyrin sensitizers ,[11] and near IR sensitizers.[12] A further field of their research encompass organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that are used in the fabrication of digital displays.[13] They contributed novel blue, green, and red phosphorescent iridium emitters for OLEDs.[14]

His laboratory is located at the EPFL-Sion Energy center, focusing on organic, inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells and Light Emitting Diodes research. His laboratory has fabricated blue, green, and red PLEDs with unprecedentedly high external quantum efficiency. His group has investigated solutions (one-step and sequential deposition) and sublimation-deposited perovskite solar cells and obtained a power conversion efficiency of 25%. His group has developed a Perovskite Solar Cells Module (area 26.02 cm2) with an efficiency of 22.4%. Their research has been covered in several international news outlets. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21] However, it is important to note that these cells and modules are not commercially deployed and much more research and development needs to be done and long-term stability of the cells and modules have yet to be demonstrated. There are numerous leading researchers world-wide working on this problem. It is important to note that perovskite-based solar cell technology in general is still in the developmental stage and essentially no perovskite-based solar modules have been commercially deployed for harnessing solar power.

Publications & Awards

Nazeeruddin is a co-author on numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and is a co-inventor on many patents.[22] According to Thomson Reuters he has been named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in chemistry, materials science and engineering in 2016 and 2017, and was included in the list of "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" from all scientific domains.[23][24] As stated in the ISI listing he is one of the most cited chemists with more than 126'000 citations and an h-index of 160.[25] His group has earned worldwide recognition and leadership in Perovskite solar cells as evidenced by The Times of Higher Education named him "the top 10 researchers in the world working on the high impact perovskite materials and devices".[26] Nazeeruddin was listed as one of the Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists in the world from the list published by Stanford University in October 2022. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences,[27] and is a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry.[28] Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Swiss Chemical Society. He was awarded the 34th Khwarizmi International Award in Basic Sciences, 2021.

Since 2018 he has been a jury member of the Rei Jaume I foundation in Spain.[29]

He is the recipient of the best paper award from the journal Inorganics,[30] the EPFL Excellence Prize (1998 and 2006), the Brazilian FAPESP fellowship award (1999), the Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship (1998), and Government of India National Scholar award (1987-1989).[31]

He is Editor in Chief, Chemistry of Inorganic Materials, an Advisory Board member at Advanced Functional Materials,[32] an Associated Editor at Energy Chem,[33] an Editorial Advisory Board member at Scientific Reports,[34] an Editorial Advisory Board at RRL Solar,[35] and an Editorial Advisory Board member at Artificial Photosynthesis.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "GMF". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Prof. Nazeeruddin". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 "16 new professors at the two Federal Institutes of Technology | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin – 2018 6th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference". Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Universiti Brunei Darussalam". ubd.edu.bn. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  6. ↑ Cho, Kyung Taek; Rakstys, Kasparas; Cavazzini, Marco; Orlandi, Simonetta; Pozzi, Gianluca; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja (1 December 2016). "Perovskite Solar Cells Employing Molecularly Engineered Zn(II) Phthalocyanines as Hole-transporting Materials". Nano Energy. 30: 853–857. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.09.008. ISSN 2211-2855.
  7. ↑ "Research". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  8. ↑ Pizzoli, Giuliano; Lobello, Maria Grazia; Carlotti, Benedetta; Elisei, Fausto; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Vitillaro, Giuseppe; Angelis, Filippo De (11 September 2012). "Acid–base properties of the N3 ruthenium(II) solar cell sensitizer: a combined experimental and computational analysis". Dalton Transactions. 41 (38): 11841–11848. doi:10.1039/C2DT31340E. ISSN 1477-9234. PMID 22911010.
  9. ↑ De Angelis, Filippo; Fantacci, Simona; Mosconi, Edoardo; Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K.; Grätzel, Michael (5 May 2011). "Absorption Spectra and Excited State Energy Levels of the N719 Dye on TiO2 in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Models". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115 (17): 8825–8831. doi:10.1021/jp111949a. ISSN 1932-7447.
  10. ↑ Liu, Shih-Hung; Fu, Hungshin; Cheng, Yi-Ming; Wu, Kuan-Lin; Ho, Shu-Te; Chi, Yun; Chou, Pi-Tai (9 August 2012). "Theoretical Study of N749 Dyes Anchoring on the (TiO2)28 Surface in DSSCs and Their Electronic Absorption Properties". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116 (31): 16338–16345. doi:10.1021/jp3006074. ISSN 1932-7447.
  11. ↑ Mathew, Simon; Yella, Aswani; Gao, Peng; Humphry-Baker, Robin; Curchod, Basile F. E.; Ashari-Astani, Negar; Tavernelli, Ivano; Rothlisberger, Ursula; Nazeeruddin, Md Khaja; Grätzel, Michael (March 2014). "Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers". Nature Chemistry. 6 (3): 242–247. Bibcode:2014NatCh...6..242M. doi:10.1038/nchem.1861. ISSN 1755-4349. PMID 24557140.
  12. ↑ Rao, G. Hanumantha; Venkateswararao, A.; Giribabu, L.; Singh, Surya Prakash (2016). "Near-infrared unsymmetrical blue and green squaraine sensitizers". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 15 (2): 287–296. doi:10.1039/C5PP00335K. ISSN 1474-905X. PMID 26815591. S2CID 7085257.
  13. ↑ Kessler, Florian; Watanabe, Yuichiro; Sasabe, Hisahiro; Katagiri, Hiroshi; Nazeeruddin, Md K.; Grätzel, Michael; Kido, Junji (17 January 2013). "High-performance pure blue phosphorescent OLED using a novel bis-heteroleptic iridium(III) complex with fluorinated bipyridyl ligands". Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 1 (6): 1070–1075. doi:10.1039/C2TC00836J. ISSN 2050-7534.
  14. ↑ Tordera, Daniel; Serrano-Pérez, Juan J.; Pertegás, Antonio; Ortí, Enrique; Bolink, Henk J.; Baranoff, Etienne; Nazeeruddin, Md. Khaja; Frey, Julien (27 August 2013). "Correlating the Lifetime and Fluorine Content of Iridium(III) Emitters in Green Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells". Chemistry of Materials. 25 (16): 3391–3397. doi:10.1021/cm402473j. ISSN 0897-4756.
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  18. ↑ "Mohammad Nazeeruddin, le chercheur qui fait apparaître Sion sur la scène internationale". Le Nouvelliste.
  19. ↑ "Les pérovskites vont changer le photovoltaïque". Le Matin (in French). 2 February 2019. ISSN 1018-3736. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  20. ↑ métiers, https://www gewerbezeitung ch/fr Journal des arts et (4 April 2019). "Nous avons un nouveau pape!". Journal des arts et métiers (in French). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  21. ↑ Nicolet, Laurent. ""Le futur de l'énergie solaire s'annonce brillant"". www.migros.ch (in French). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
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  27. ↑ "European Academy of Sciences - Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin". www.eurasc.org. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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  29. ↑ Sumatuweb. "Jurado Protección del Medio Ambiente 2018". www.fprj.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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  32. ↑ "Advanced Functional Materials". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1616-3028. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  33. ↑ "Professor Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  34. ↑ "Editors | Scientific Reports". www.nature.com. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  35. ↑ "Solar RRL". Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)2367-198X. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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