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Kai Zhu is a researcher affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States, focusing primarily on engineering and materials science. Their academic output includes significant contributions in electrical and electronic engineering as well as materials chemistry. The researcher's work spans several subfields, including polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their research topics cover areas such as perovskite materials and applications, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, quantum dots synthesis and properties, conducting polymers, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, organic electronics and photovoltaics, and organic light-emitting diodes research.

Zhu has published extensively in prominent journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Joule
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Science
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Recent notable papers authored by or involving Zhu include:

  • "Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures," 2020, Nature Energy
  • "Surface reaction for efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells," 2022, Nature
  • "Scalable fabrication and coating methods for perovskite solar cells and solar modules," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon," 2020, Science
  • "Advances in two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites," 2020, Energy & Environmental Science

Zhu frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Joseph J. Berry, Fei Zhang, Jinhui Tong, Bing Yan, and Matthew C. Beard, reflecting a collaborative approach within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced Charge-Collection Efficiencies and Light Scattering in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Oriented TiO2 Nanotubes Arrays

    Kai Zhu;Nathan R. Neale;and Alexander Miedaner;Arthur J. Frank

  • Stabilizing Perovskite Structures by Tuning Tolerance Factor: Formation of Formamidinium and Cesium Lead Iodide Solid-State Alloys

    Zhen Li;Mengjin Yang;Ji-Sang Park;Su-Huai Wei

  • Organic–inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites for optoelectronic and electronic applications

    Yixin Zhao;Kai Zhu

  • Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures

    Mark V. Khenkin;Mark V. Khenkin;Eugene A. Katz;Antonio Abate;Giorgio Bardizza

  • Surface reaction for efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells

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  • Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells

    Nam-Gyu Park;Michael Grätzel;Tsutomu Miyasaka;Kai Zhu

  • Observation of a hot-phonon bottleneck in lead-iodide perovskites

    Ye Yang;David P. Ostrowski;Kai Zhu

  • Scalable fabrication of perovskite solar cells

    Zhen Li;Talysa R. Klein;Dong Hoe Kim;Mengjin Yang

  • Carrier lifetimes of >1 μs in Sn-Pb perovskites enable efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cells

    Jinhui Tong;Jinhui Tong;Zhaoning Song;Dong Hoe Kim;Xihan Chen

  • Scalable fabrication and coating methods for perovskite solar cells and solar modules

    Nam-Gyu Park;Kai Zhu

  • Origin of J–V Hysteresis in Perovskite Solar Cells

    Bo Chen;Mengjin Yang;Shashank Priya;Kai Zhu

  • Lead-Free Inverted Planar Formamidinium Tin Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells Achieving Power Conversion Efficiencies up to 6.22.

    Weiqiang Liao;Weiqiang Liao;Dewei Zhao;Yue Yu;Corey R. Grice

  • Low-bandgap mixed tin-lead iodide perovskite absorbers with long carrier lifetimes for all-perovskite tandem solar cells

    Dewei Zhao;Yue Yu;Changlei Wang;Changlei Wang;Weiqiang Liao;Weiqiang Liao

  • Additive Engineering for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

    Fei Zhang;Kai Zhu

  • Efficient tandem solar cells with solution-processed perovskite on textured crystalline silicon.

    Yi Hou;Erkan Aydin;Michele De Bastiani;Chuanxiao Xiao

  • Defect Tolerance in Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskite

    K. Xerxes Steirer;Philip Schulz;Glenn Teeter;Vladan Stevanovic

  • Long-range hot-carrier transport in hybrid perovskites visualized by ultrafast microscopy.

    Zhi Guo;Yan Wan;Mengjin Yang;Jordan Snaider

  • CH3NH3Cl-Assisted One-Step Solution Growth of CH3NH3PbI3: Structure, Charge-Carrier Dynamics, and Photovoltaic Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells

    Yixin Zhao;Kai Zhu

  • Removing structural disorder from oriented TiO2 nanotube arrays: reducing the dimensionality of transport and recombination in dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Kai Zhu;Todd B Vinzant;Nathan R Neale;Arthur J Frank

  • Employing Lead Thiocyanate Additive to Reduce the Hysteresis and Boost the Fill Factor of Planar Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Weijun Ke;Weijun Ke;Weijun Ke;Chuanxiao Xiao;Changlei Wang;Bayrammurad Saparov

  • Extrinsic ion migration in perovskite solar cells

    Zhen Li;Chuanxiao Xiao;Chuanxiao Xiao;Ye Yang;Steven P. Harvey

  • Perovskite ink with wide processing window for scalable high-efficiency solar cells

    Mengjin Yang;Zhen Li;Matthew O. Reese;Obadiah G. Reid

  • Nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells sensitized with InAs quantum dots.

    Pingrong Yu;Kai Zhu;Andrew G. Norman;Suzanne Ferrere

Frequent Co-Authors

Mengjin Yang
Mengjin Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joseph J. Berry
Joseph J. Berry National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dong Hoe Kim
Dong Hoe Kim Korea University
Yanfa Yan
Yanfa Yan University of Toledo
Arthur J. Frank
Arthur J. Frank National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Yixin Zhao
Yixin Zhao Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Joseph M. Luther
Joseph M. Luther National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Nathan R. Neale
Nathan R. Neale National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dewei Zhao
Dewei Zhao Sichuan University
Chuanxiao Xiao
Chuanxiao Xiao Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology

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