Email: Aswani.yella@iitb.ac.in
Tel: +91-22-2576-7619

Academic Background:

M.Sc. (Chemistry) University of Hyderabad (2005)

Ph.D. (Materials Chemistry) Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (2010)

Research Interests:

• Nanostructured materials for photovoltaics
• Organic-inorganic hybrid materials for light harvesting
• Molecular electronics
• Dye/semiconductor sensitized solar cells
• Photoelectrochemical cells for H2 generation
• Perovskite Photoferroics

Selected Publications:

• “Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)-Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12% Efficiency”
  Aswani Yella, Hsuan-Wei Lee, Hoi Nok Tsao, Chenyi Yi, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Eric Wei-Guang Diau, Chen-Yu Yeh, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel.
  Science, (2011), 334, 629-634.
• “Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers”
  Aswani Yella,§ Simon Mathew,§ Peng Gao, Robin Humphry-Baker, Basile Curchod , Negar Ashari Astani, Ivano Tavernelli , Ursula R?thlisberger, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel §authors contributed equally.
  Nature Chemistry, (2014), 6, 242-247.
• “Perovskite Solar cells employing organic charge transport layers”
  Olga Malinkiewicz,? Aswani Yella, Yong Hui Lee, Guillermo Minguez Espallargas, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad K Nazeeruddin, Henk J Bolink.
  Nature Photonics, (2014), 8, 128-132.
• “Sub-nanometer conformal TiO2 blocking layer for high-efficiency solid-state CH3NH3PbI3 absorber solar cells”
  Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Aswani Yella,* Peng Gao, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel * Corresponding author
  Advanced Materials, (2014), 26, 4309-4312.
• “Nanocrystalline rutile electron extraction layer enables low temperature solution processed perovskite photovoltaics with 13.7% efficiency”
  Aswani Yella,* Leo-Philipp Heiniger, Peng Gao, Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Gr?tzel. * Corresponding author
  Nanoletters, (2014), 14, 2591-2596.