Recent News

September 29, 2020

Congratulations to Manoj K. Jana, Ruyi Song, Haoliang Liu, Dipak Rajkhanal, Svenja M. Janke, Chi Liu, Rundong Zhao, Z. Valy Vardeny, Volker Blum, David B. Mitzi.

November 20, 2019

David Mitzi is one of six Duke engineering professors (and 54 total Duke Universitiy researchers) included in Clarivate Analytics annual list of Highly Cited Researchers [...]

November 19, 2019

We have a paper "Molecular Engineering of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites Quantum Wells" recently published in Nature Chemistry.

September 27, 2019

We organized an experimental training workshop on September 12-13, 2019 in NC State University. The workshop was aimed to introduce emerging concepts in the experimental material science, to the early career scientist including postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students.

September 1, 2019

Congratulations to Dr. David Mitzi, who recently won the 2020 American Chemical Society National Award in the Chemistry of Materials!

August 8, 2019

An ASCR Discovery story features DoE INCITE computational materials research on hybrid organic-inorganic systems, including scientists and research results from the HybriD3 team.

June 19, 2019

Congratulations to Chi (Garnett) Liu, Duke University, Chemistry Department, who successfully defended his dissertation "Tunable Electronic Excitations in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials: Ground-state and Perturbation Approaches".

June 5, 2019

Congratulations! An article "Aryl-Perfluoroaryl Interaction in Two-Dimensional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites Boosts Stability and Photovoltaic Efficiency” by Jun Hu, Iain W. H. Oswald, Huamin Hu, Samuel J. Stuard, Masrur Morshed Nahid, Liang Yan, Zheng Chen, Harald Ade, James R.

May 16, 2019

Our recent work on tunable 2D oligomer-based hybrid perovskite films deposited using resonant infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation ( [...]

May 10, 2019

Congratulations on a newly published paper "Defect Passivation by Fullerene Derivative in Perovskite Solar Cells with Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide as Electron Transporting Layer" by Qi Dong, Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Hyeonggeun Yu, Amin [...]

April 23, 2019

We're happy to announce a new paper on a new, lead-free, iodide-based 2D organic-inorganic semiconductor: "Direct-Bandgap 2D Silver–Bismuth Iodide Double Perovskite: The Structure-Directing Influence of an Oligothiophene Spacer Cation” by Manoj K. Jana, Svenja M. Janke, David J.

March 25, 2019

Wiley Dunlap-Shohl today defended his dissertation titled "Novel Fabrication Approaches for Optoelectronic Halide Semiconductor Thin Films and Devices." Wiley was Dr.

March 20, 2019

Congratulations! An article “Synthetic control over orientational degeneracy of spacer cations enhances solar cell efficiency in two-dimensional perovskites” by Jun Hu, Iain W. H. Oswald, Samuel J. Stuard, Masrur Morshed Nahid, Ninghao Zhou, Olivia F.

December 4, 2018

An article by Chiung-Wei Huang on the "HybriD³ Theory Training Workshop", co-organized by Volker Blum, Yosuke Kanai, and their groups, and held at Duke University in September, is available in the "Frontiers in Energy Research" [...]

October 8, 2018

Computational models of layered hybrid perovskites open new material design space for light-based applications such as LEDs and water purification

September 12, 2018

We are holding a training workshop that introduces students and other early-career scientists to theory and practical applications of atomistic modeling techniques in materials science, chemistry, and condensed matter physics, particularly first-principles electronic structure calculations, [...]

August 10, 2018

May 17, 2018

How do you identify the ideal molecular structure for a solar absorber or, perhaps, for a drug supplied as a powder of molecular crystals [...]

October 1, 2017

The Hybrid3 team is proud to kick off a new effort focused on mapping out the space of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors, particularly perovskites.