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## The UJI gets the first two million Euro Consolidator Grant for producing solar cells with quantum dots and perovskite

10/09/2020 |
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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has obtained the first Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), endowed with 2 million Euro, for producing solar cells with different materials, such as colloidal quantum dots and perovskite halide. Only three Valencian public universities have obtained funding in the last call for this budget line characterized by high competitiveness and excellence.

Iván Mora Seró, lecturer of Applied Physics and researcher at the University Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), has won the European grant to develop the No-LIMIT project, whose objective is to improve the efficiency of solar cells through the synergistic interaction of materials to overcome the limitations of the current photovoltaic conversion. This UJI initiative has been one of the 315 proposals accepted by the ERC, out of the 2,035 submitted, since the success rate is very low, with an average of 15%. In Spain, 47 million Euro have been awarded to 24 projects.

Over the next five years, the team led by Mora Seró will analyse the properties of perovskites to produce high-efficiency solar cells in perovskite polycrystalline layers, making it possible to add quantum dots without distorting these properties. "This strategy will allow us to study new configurations of solar cells with the potential to overcome the theoretical limit of solar cells manufactured with a single light absorber material, which cannot exceed the maximum efficiency ceiling of 33%," explains the researcher.

**THREE MILLION EURO FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE**

The vice-rector for Research and Doctorate at the UJI, Jesús Lancis, argues that this first Consolidator Grant obtained by the lecturer Ivan Mora Seró is "a recognition of the research task that we carry out at the Universitat Jaume I, where we have young scientists with a bright and promising trajectory, and where we cultivate great-impact research with a high potential of transference to society." In addition, "we must emphasize that this is a very demanding and competitive call, with a rate of success of only 15%, because it finances an elite of scientists with the aim of promoting really excellent research teams," he adds.

Jesús Lancis also points out that researchers from the Universitat Jaume I, only from September 2016 to January 2017, “have obtained European funding to develop five projects under the H2020 programme involving around 3.2 million Euro, included the No-LIMIT project.”

**NANOMATERIALS ON THE BORDER OF KNOWLEDGE**

The No-LIMIT project will advance in the generation of a new compound with capacity of solar exploitation from the mixture of two relatively new materials. First, quantum dots — emerged at the laboratory by quantum confinement, which provides them with new properties — together with perovskite, a family of materials with very high solar conversion efficiencies. "This project is at the frontier of knowledge, as the ERC only funds risky and innovative proposals that not only can achieve their final goal, but also other milestones that will inspire new lines of research, for instance, in this case, the application of these materials to LED manufacture," reflects the researcher.

Iván Mora Seró is a lecturer at the Department of Physics in the Universitat Jaume I and main researcher of the F4 Division at the University Institute of Advanced Materials. His research is centred on crystal growth, nanostructured devices, transport and recombination properties, photocatalysis, and the electrical characterization of photovoltaic, electrochromic and water-division systems, performing both experimental and theoretical works. His recent research activity focuses on new concepts for photovoltaic conversion and light emission (LED and light amplifiers) based on nanometric devices and semiconductor materials following two main lines: semiconductor quantum dots and lead halide perovskites, being this last line probably the current hottest topic in the development of new optoelectronic devices. He has published, as well, more than 130 papers.

This scientist is on the 2016 list of Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of Science, which just includes the 3,000 most cited researchers within last 11 years around the whole world in all scientific categories. He has been granted with a Juan de la Cierva and a Ramon y Cajal fellowship, both from the Spanish government, and an Idea Award (2011) in the category of Physical and Chemical Sciences, awarded by the City of Arts and Sciences Foundation and the Valencian government. He has also obtained a Weizmann Institute Fellowship in Israel (2016).

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