Antonio Facchetti

Northwestern University

Biography

Antonio Facchetti is a co-founder and currently the Chief Technology Officer of Flexterra Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and a Guest Professor at Linkoping University. He has published more than 550 research articles, 14 book chapters, and holds more than 130 patents. He received the ACS Award for Creative Invention, the Giulio Natta Gold Medal of the Italian Chemical Society, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Award, the corporate Flextech Award. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, MRS, AAAS, PMSE, Kavli, and RSC. 

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Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells Optimized by Materials Design
09:30 AM

In this presentation we will report the molecular design, synthesis, and molecular and structural characterization of new molecular building blocks, donor polymers and non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaic cells. New donor polymers were designed on easily accessible building blocks and avoid fluorination to facilitate synthetic strategies but delivering PCEs > 10% (in modules) and >17% (on small cells). Furthermore, we demonstrate new molecular and polymeric NFAs where combination of atomic substituent and regiochemical substituent arrangement (for the molecular) as well as co-monomer unit (for the polymeric) enable good structural order, good electron mobilities, and achieve optimal paring with several donor polymers. Finally, we summarize recent strategies to organic and oxide interlayers for realizing highly efficient and stable perovskite cells.

Antonio Facchetti

Northwestern University

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