About Professor Michael GRÄTZEL

Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Michael Graetzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized mesoscopic oxide particles and pioneered the use of nanomaterials in lithium ion batteries. Author of over 500 publications, two books and inventor or co-inventor of over 40 patents he was an invited professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris) and is presently part-time distinguished visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was a frequent guest scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden Colorado, was a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has received numerous awards including the Millenium 2000 European innovation prize, the 2001 Faraday Medal of the British Royal Society, the 2001 Dutch Havinga Award, the 2004 Italgas Prize, two McKinsey Venture awards in 1998 and 2002 and the 2005 Gerischer Prize. He is holding a doctors degree from the TU Berlin and honorary doctors degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Turin. He was elected honorary member of the Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles.

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Open Position

Open call for candidate technical experts on HPLC analysis and chromatographic purification of sensitizers for ROBUST-DSC Project.

Conference

E-MRS 2009 Spring Meeting. June 8 - 12, 2009. Congress Center, Strasbourg, France. Conference on "Mesoscopic Dye Sensitized and Organic Heterojunction Solar Cells".

Latest Publications

J.-Y. Yum, P. Chen, M. Graetzel, and Md.K. Nazeeruddin. Recent Developments in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. In ChemSusChem, volume 1, pages 699-707, 2008.
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M. Graetzel. Transition Metal Complexes as Sensitizers for Efficient Mesoscopic Solar Cells. In Bull. Jpn. Soc. Coord. Chem, volume 51, pages 3-12, 2008.
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J.-Y. Yum, S.-J. Moon, R. Humphry-Baker, P. Walter, T. Geiger, F. Nueesch, M. Graetzel, and Md.K. Nazeeruddi. Effect of coadsorbent on the photovoltaic performance of squaraine sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells. In Nanotechnology, volume 19, number 42, page 424005, 2008.
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H. J. Snaith, R. Humphry-Baker, P. Chen, I. Cesar, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Graetzel. Charge collection and pore filling in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. In Nanotechnology, volume 19, number 42, page 424003, 2008.
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C. Li, J.-Y. Yum, S.-J. Moon, A. Herrmann, F. Eickemeyer, N.G. Pschirer, P. Erk, J. Schöneboom, Klaus. Muellen, M. Graetzel, and Md.K. Nazeeruddin. An Improved Perylene Sensitizer for Solar Cell Applications. In ChemSusChem, volume 1, pages 615-618, 2008.
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E. Baranoff, S. Suàrez, P. Bugnon, C. Barolo, R. Buscaino, R. Scopelliti, L. Zuppiroli, M. Graetzel, and Md.K. Nazeeruddin. Sublimation Not an Innocent Technique: A Case of Bis-Cyclometalated Iridium Emitter for OLED. In Inorg. Chem. , volume 47, number 15, pages 6575-6577, 2008.
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D. D. Kuang, J. Brillet, P. Chen, M. Takata, S. Uchida, H. Miura, K. Sumioka, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Graetzel. Application of Highly Ordered TiO2 Nanotube Arrays in Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. In ACS Nano, volume 2, number 6, pages 1113-1116, 2008.
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Y. Bai, Y. Cao, J. Zhang, M. Wang, R. Li, P. Wang, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Graetzel. High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells based on solvent-free electrolytes produced from eutectic melts. In Nature Materials, volume 7, pages 626-630, 2008.
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L. Kavan, I. Exnar, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Graetzel. Molecular Wiring of Olivine LiFeP04 by Ruthenium(II)-Bipyridine Complexes and by Their Assemblies with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 112, number 23, page 8708–8714, 2008.
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F. Gao, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, D. Shi, M. Wang, R. Humphry-Baker, P. Wang, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Graetzel. A new heteroleptic ruthenium sensitizer enhances the absorptivity of mesoporous titania film for a high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell. In Chem. Commun., number 23, pages 2635-2637, 2008.
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