Nanoscale Solar Cells

To solve the climate crisis we need a material revolution by finding the materials we need to generate clean energy, store it in new generation batteries, and capture the produced carbon. However, the total chemical space is vast. There are trillions of possible chemical compositions, and a million or more different ways to make each of them. In the field of perovskite solar cells alone, the challenge is immense. The enormous number of possible combinations of atoms within the lattice makes the search space larger than 10 to the power of 20, more than the number of stars in our galaxy. This vast chemical space allows fine-tuning of both optical and structural properties through different combinations of elements. This can lead to drastically different optoelectronic properties.

Against this background, we are developing an ultra-high-throughput platform that uses artificial intelligence to synthesize, characterize, and explore the design space of next-generation materials to help address the climate crisis.