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2025
Silver–Bismuth Perovskite-Inspired Materials: Chemistry, Optoelectronic Properties, and Emerging Applications in Photovoltaics and Beyond
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D5TA06180F
G. K. Grandhi, N. S. M. Viswanath, M. Righetto, S. Domenici, M. Krishnaiah, M. Moroni, A. Pecoraro, A. B. Munoz-Garcia, M. Pavone, L. Malavasi, T. Gatti and P. Vivo
Lead-Free Perovskites and Their Derivatives for Indoor Photovoltaic Applications
In Comprehensive Series in Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences; Springer, Cham, 2025.
G. K. Grandhi, M. Krishnaiah, P. Vivo
Interlayer-Crosslinkable Hole Transport Layer Achieved Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, e10279
Zheng Wang, Jiakang Zhang, G. Krishnamurthy Grandhi, Muhua Zou, Paola Vivo, Zhongmin Zhou, Haichang Zhang
Reaching a consensus on indoor photovoltaics testing
Joule, 2025, 102127
Robert L.Z. Hoye, George Koutsourakis, Marina Freitag, Zacharie Jehl Li-Kao, Thomas Österberg, Simon Aliwell, Mathieu Bellanger, Thomas M. Brown, Francesca Brunetti, Matthew J. Carnie, Abhisek Chakraborty, Giulia Grancini, Petri Kärhä, Matthias Kauer, Thomas Kirchartz, Chieh-Ting Lin, Monica Lira-Cantú, Yean-San Long, Senol Öz, Sonia R. Raga, Edgardo Saucedo, Paola Vivo, Shin Woei Leow, Konrad Wojciechowski, Andrea Zampetti, Ru Zhou, Simon Züfle, Gregory Burwell
Lighting the Way: Unveiling the Mechanisms of the Photoinduced Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation Using Tailored Bismuth-Based Perovskite-Inspired Microcrystals
ChemSusChem 2025, 00, e202501555
Daniele Conelli, Chiara Lo Porto, Anna Moliterni, Davide Altamura, Cinzia Giannini,Fabio Palumbo, Helena Mateos, Mokurala Krishnaiah, Tuhin Samanta, Kimmo Lahtonen,G. Krishnamurthy Grandhi, Paola Vivo, Gian Paolo Suranna, and Roberto Grisorio
Pyridine-Based Multifunctional Surface Passivators Enable Efficient and Stable Perovskite Indoor Photovoltaics
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 49409−49420
Yi Han; Ceylan Doyranli; Alessia Di Vito; Matthias Auf der Maur; Mokurala Krishnaiah; Paavo Mäkinen; Ramesh Kumar; Basheer Al-Anesi; Debjit Manna; Paola Vivo
Wisdom of Crowds for Supporting the Safety Evaluation of Nanomaterials
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2025, 59, 29, 14969–14980
Laura Aliisa Saarimäki, Michele Fratello, Giusy del Giudice, Emanuele Di Lieto, Antreas Afantitis, Harri Alenius, Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Mary Gulumian, Piia Karisola, Iseult Lynch, Giulia Mancardi, Georgia Melagraki, Paolo Netti, Anastasios G. Papadiamantis, Willie Peijnenburg, Hélder A. Santos, Tommaso Serchi, Mohammad-Ali Shahbazi, Tobias Stoeger, Eugenia Valsami-Jones, Paola Vivo, Ivana Vinković Vrček, Ulla Vogel, Peter Wick, David A. Winkler, Angela Serra, Dario Greco.
DMSO-Free Tin Halide Perovskites for Indoor Photovoltaics
ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10, XXX, 3789–3798
Debendra Prasad Panda; Rabeb Issaoui; Zafar Iqbal; G. Krishnamurthy Grandhi; Muhammad Okash Ur Rehman; Fengshuo Zu; Paola Alippi; Madineh Rastgoo; Shengnan Zuo; Enrica Luzzi; Maxim Simmonds; Lorenzo Miele; Luigi Sanguigno; Meng Li; Paolo Aprea; Ernesto Di Maio; Norbert Koch; Paola Vivo, and Antonio Abate
Surpassing the 10% Efficiency Threshold in Perovskite-Inspired Indoor Photovoltaics
ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10, 3415–3418
Lamminen, N.; Lahtinen, J.; Krishnaiah, M.; Karlsson, J; Saju, M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.
Bulk Passivation of Lead Halide Perovskites: The Key to High-Performance Indoor Photovoltaics at Very Low-Light Intensities
Solar RRL 2025, 9, 2500195
Karpiola, E; Grandhi, G.K.; Doyranli, C.; Han, Y.; Alexander, A.; Jagadamma, L.K.; Tewari, A.; Manna, D.; Vivo, P.
Structural-disorder-induced enhancement of second-harmonic generation in bismuth-based perovskite-inspired materials
Newton 2025, 1, 3, 100056.
Annurakshita, S; Grandhi, G.K.; Viswanath, N.S.M.; Pecoraro, A.; Schildt, M.; Toikkonen, S.; Munoz-Garcia, A.B.; Pavone, M.; Juttunen, M.J.; Vivo, P.
The Promise of Operational Stability in Pnictogen-Based Perovskite-Inspired Solar Cells
EES Sol. 2025, 1, 139-156
Lamminen, N; Karlsson, J.; Kumar, R.; Viswanath, N.S.M.; Lal, S.; Fasulo, F.; Righetto, M.; Krishnaiah, M.; Lahtonen, K.; Tewari, A.; Katerski, A.; Lahtinen, J.; Acik, I.O.; Johansson, E.M.J.; Munoz-Garcia, A.B.; Pavone, M.; Herz, L.M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.
Synergistic Halogen-Bonding Passivation and Carboxylic Acid Anchoring in Carbazole-Based Hole-Transport Materials Enhance Performance and Stability of p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells
Small. 2025, 21, 2502236
Mäkinen, P.; Han, Y.; Koch, G.; Xie, M.; Tewari, A.; Di Vito, A.; Auf Der Maur, M.; Al-Anesi, B.; Alexander, A.; Lamminen, N.; De Rossi, F.; Brunetti, F.; Vivo, P.
Benign Mid-Gap Halide Vacancy States in 2D Bismuth-Based Halide Perovskite Microcrystals for Enhanced Broadband Photodetectors
Mater. Horiz. 2025, 12, 3865-3877
Singh, K.; Hossain, M.; Nayak, P.K.; Karmakar, S.; Tripathi, A.; Sarkar, P.; Rudra, P.; Muhammed Ali, A.V.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.; Mondal, S.; Adarsh, K.V.; Ghosh, D.; Rao, K.D.M.
Promises and challenges of indoor photovoltaics
Nat. Rev. Clean Technol. 2025, 1, 132-147.
Grandhi, G.K; Koutsourakis, G.; Blakesley, J.C.; De Rossi, F.; Brunetti, F.; Öz, S.; Sinicropi, A.; Parisi, M.L.; Brown, T.M.; Carnie, M.J.; Hoye, R.L.Z.; Vivo, P.
Perovskite-Inspired Cs₂AgBi₂I₉: A Promising Photovoltaic Absorber for Diverse Indoor Environments
Adv. Energy Mater. 2025, 15, 2404547.
Krishnaiah, M.; Singh, K.; Monga, S.; Tripathi, A.; Karmakar, S.; Kumar, R.; Tyrpenou, C.; Volonakis, G.; Manna, D.; Mäkinen, P.; Adarsh, K.V.; Bhattacharya, S. Granhi, G.K.; Rao, K.D.M; Vivo, P.
Cooperating with additives: low-cost hole-transporting materials for improved stability of perovskite solar cells
Sustain. Energy Fuels 2025, 9, 172-184.
Mäkinen, P., Conelli, D., Grandhi, G.K., Suranna, G.P., Vivo, P. & Grisorio, R.
Synergistic dye/photocatalyst interconnections for activating efficient light-induced degradation pathways.
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 1769-1783.
Conelli, D.; Grandhi, G.K.; Tewari, A.; Hytönen, V.; Lanzafame, P.; Vivo, P.; Suranna, G.; Grisorio, R.
Assessing the Environmental Impact of Pnictogen-based Perovskite-Inspired Materials for Indoor Photovoltaics.
Adv. Energy Mater. 2025, 15, 2403981.
Vidal, R.; Lamminen, N.; Holappa, V.; Alberola-Borràs, J.-A.; Franco, I.P.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.
2024
Solution-Processed Tin-Antimony Quaternary Chalcohalides for Self-Powered Broadband Photodetectors
Sol. RRL 2024, 8, 2400633.
Manna, D.; Krishnaiah, M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Al-Anesi, B.; Viswanath, N.S.M.; Sugathan, V.; Tewari, A., Doyranli, C.; Vivo, P.
Synergistic Metal Halide Perovskite@Metal-Organic Framework Hybrids for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
iScience 2024, 27, 110924.
Sharma, S.; Jacob, N.; Grandhi, G.K.; Choudhary, M.B.; Ippili, S.; Hathwar, V.R.; Vivo, P.; Lo, R.; Motapothula, M.; Jayaramulu, K.
Simplifying perovskite solar cell fabrication for materials testing: how to use unetched substrates with the aid of a three-dimensionally printed cell holder
R. Soc. Open Sci. 2024, 11, 241012.
Valdez Garcia, J.; Hadadian, M.; Nizamov, R.; Mäkinen, P.; Lamminen, N.; Vivo, P.; Miettunen, K.
Unveiling Double A‑Site Cation Perovskite-Inspired Materials: From 0D-Cs3Bi2I9 to 2D-Cs2AgBi2I9 with Enhanced Charge Transport
Chem. Mater. 2024, 16, 7781–779.
Hossain, M.; Singh, K.; Narwal, A.; Sheikh, M.S.; Reddy, S.K.; Vankayala, K.; Singh, A.; Khan, S.; Khan, S.; Velpula, P.K.; Chirumamilla, M.; Yamijala, S. S. R. K. C.; Grandhi, G. K.; Vivo, P.; Rao, K.D.M.
Enhancing Charge Transfer in Perovskite-Inspired Silver Iodobismuthate-Based Solar Cells via Cesium Iodide Interlayer
Adv. Energy Sustainability Res. 2024, 5, 2400119.
Al-Anesi, B.; Sugathan, V.; Karlsson, K. J.; Tewari, A.; Nasare, R.; Mäkinen, P.; Manna, D.; Mäntysalo, M.; Vivo, P.
Dissecting the Role of Hole-transport Layer in Cu2AgBiI6 Solar Cells: An Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Study
J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 9446–9453.
Al-Anesi, B.; Murthy, G.K.; Pecoraro, A.; Sugathan, V.; Muñoz-García, A.; Pavone, M.; Vivo, P.
Lattice Engineering via Transition Metal Ions for Boosting Photoluminescence Quantum Yields of Lead‐Free Layered Double Perovskite Nanocrystals
Small 2024, 20, 2401051.
Liu, M.; Matta, S.K.; Al Said, T.; Liu, J.; Matuhina, A.; Al-Anesi, B.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Russo, S.P.; Vivo, P.
Is doping of Spiro-OMeTAD a requirement for efficient and stable perovskite indoor photovoltaics?
Adv. Devices Instrum. 2024, 5.
Toikkonen, S.; Grandhi, G.K.; Wang, S.; Baydin, B.; Al-Anesi, B.; Jagadamma, L.K.; Vivo, P.
Surface-Engineered Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Enabling Photoreduction Activity
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 24029–24038.
Conelli, D.; Matuhina, A.; Dibenedetto, C.; Grandhi, G.K.; Margiotta, N.; Fanizza, E.; Striccoli, M.; Vivo, P.; Suranna, G.P.; Grisorio, R.
Halide perovskites for photoelectrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction – challenges and opportunities
ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 6603–6622.
Bienkowski, K.; Solarska, R.; Trinh, L.; Widera-Kalinowska, J.; Al-Anesi, B.; Liu, M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.; Oral, B.; Yilmaz, B.; Yildirim, R.
Halide Engineering in Mixed Halide Perovskite-inspired Cu2AgBiI6 for Solar Cells with Enhanced Performance
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 19026–19038.
Sugathan, V.; Liu, M.; Pecoraro, A.; Das, T.K.; Ruoko, T.-P.; Grandhi, G.K.; Manna, D.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Muñoz-García, A.; Pavone, M.; Vivo, P.
Probing compositional engineering effects on lead-free perovskite-inspired nanocrystal thin films using correlative nonlinear optical microscopy
Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 2852-2859.
Annurakshita, S.; Liu, M.; Vivo, P.; Bautista, G.
Wide-Bandgap Perovskite-Inspired Materials – Defect-Driven Challenges for High-Performance Optoelectronics
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2307441.
Grandhi, G.K.; Hardy, D.; Krishnaiah, M.; Vargas, B.; Al-Anesi, B.; Suryawanshi, M.P.; Solis-Ibarra, D.; Gao, F.; Hoye, R.L.Z., Vivo, P.
2023
Screening Mixed-Metal Sn2M(III)Ch2X3 Chalcohalides for Photovoltaic Applications
Henkel, P.; Li, J.; Grandhi, G.K.; Vivo, P.; Rinke, P.
Surface and Optical Properties of Phase-Pure Silver Iodobismuthate Nanocrystals
Matuhina, A.; Grandhi, G.K.; Bergonzoni, A.; Pedesseau, L; Grisorio, R.; Annurakshita, S.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Varghese, R.; Lahtonen, K.; Volonakis G.; Pecunia, V.; Bautista, G.; Even, J.; Vivo, P.
Antimony-bismuth alloying: the key to a major boost in the efficiency of lead-free perovskite-inspired photovoltaics
Al-Anesi, B.; Grandhi, G.K.; Pecoraro, A.; Sugathan, V.; Viswanath, N.S.M.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Liu, M.; Ruoko, T.P.; Lahtonen, K.; Manna, D.; Toikkonen, S.; Muñoz-García, A.; Pavone, M.; Vivo, P.
Twisted or Planar? Side-Chain Tailoring of Fluorene-based Hole-Transport Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Li, R.; Liu, M.; Matta, S.K.; Almasri, A.; Tian, J.; Wang, H.; Pasanen, H.P.; Russo, S.P.; Vivo, P.; Zhang, H.
Water-Resistant Perovskite-Inspired Copper/Silver Pnictohalide Nanocrystals for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Liu, M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Al-Anesi, B.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Grisorio, R.; Vivo, P.
Lead-free Perovskite-Inspired Semiconductors for Indoor Light-harvesting – the Present and the Future
Grandhi, G.K.; Jagadamma, L.K.; Sugathan, V.; Al-Anesi, B.; Manna, D.; Vivo, P.
Role of Self-Trapped Excitons in the Broadband Emission of Lead-Free Perovskite-Inspired Cu2AgBiI6
Grandhi, G.K.; Dhama, R.; Viswanath, N.S.M.; Lisitsyna, E.; Al-Anesi, B.; Dana, J.; Sugathan, V.; Caglayan, H.; Vivo, P.
Synthetic control over the surface chemistry of blue-emitting perovskite-nanocrystals for photocatalysis
Grisorio, R.; Di Benedetto, C; Matuhina, A; Grandhi, G. K.; Vivo, P.; Fanizza, E.; Striccoli, M.; Suranna, G.P.
The role of different dopants of Spiro-OMeTAD hole transport material on the stability of perovskite solar cells: a mini review
Hatamvand, M.; Vivo, P.; Liu, M.; Tayyab, M.; Dastan, D.; Cai, X.; Chen, M.; Zhan, Y.; Chen, Y.; Huang, W.
Less is more: simplified fluorene-based dopant-free hole-transport materials promote the long-term ambient stability of perovskite solar cells
Mäkinen, P.; Fasulo, F.; Liu, M.; Grandhi, G.K.; Conelli, D.; Al-Anesi, B.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Toikkonen, S.; Suranna, G.P.; Muñoz-García, A.; Pavone, M.; Grisorio, R.; Vivo, P.
Perovskite photovoltaics: stability and scalability
Tao, S.; Polavarapu. L.; Vivo, P.
Synergistic Fluorine⋅⋅⋅Sulfur Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions on Dopant-free Hole Transport Material for Efficient and Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
Li, R.; Zhang, J.; Liu, M.; Matta, S.K.; Tian, J.; Russo, S.P.; Vivo, P.; Zhou, Z.; Zhang, H.
The role of CsMnCl3 nanocrystal structure on its luminescence properties
Matuhina, A.; Grandhi, G.K.; Pan, F.; Liu, M.; Ali-Löytty, H; Ayedh, H.M.; Tukiainen, A.; Smått, J.-H.; Vähänissi, V.; Savin, H.; Li, J.; Rinke, P.; Vivo, P.
Triple A-site cation mixing in two-dimensional perovskite-inspired antimony halide absorbers for efficient indoor photovoltaics
Lamminen, N.; Grandhi, G.K.; Fasulo, F.; Hiltunen, A.; Pasanen, H.; Liu, M.; Al-Anesi, B.; Efimov, A.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Mäkinen, P.; Matuhina, A.; Muñoz-García, A.B.; Pavone, M.; Vivo, P.
Perovskite-inspired Cu2AgBiI6 for mesoscopic indoor photovoltaics at realistic low-light intensity conditions
Grandhi, G.K.; Toikkonen, S.; Al-Anesi, B.; Pecunia, V.; Vivo, P.
Naphthodipyrrolopyrrole-based Aza-BODIPY dye for n-type organic field effect transistors
Miao, C.; Liang, D.; Gu, L.; Li, C.; Liu, M.; Li, J.; Vivo, P., Zhang. H.
2022
Isoindigo-based aza-BODIPY small molecule for n-type organic field effect transistors
Liang, D.; Li, J.; Cui, S.; Ma, J.; Liu, M.; Miao, C.; Vivo, P.; Yang, W.; Zhang. H.
Hydrogen Bonding Drives the Self-Assembling of Carbazole-based Hole-Transport Material for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Wang, C.; Liu, M.; Rahman, S.; Pasanen, H.; Tian, J.; Li, J.; Deng, Z.; Zhang, H.; Vivo, P.
Enhancing the microstructure of perovskite-inspired Cu-Ag-Bi-I absorber for efficient indoor photovoltaics
Grandhi, G. K.; Al-Anesi, B.; Pasanen, H.; Ali-Löytty, H.; Lahtonen, K.; Granroth, S.; Christian, N.; Matuhina, A.; Liu, M.; Berdin, A.; Pecunia, V.; Vivo, P.
Side-Chain Engineering by Thymine Groups Enables Hydrogen Bond in P-type Donor-Acceptor Polymers with Enhanced Optoelectronic Properties
Dai, Z.; Tian, J.; Li, J.; Liu, M.; Vivo, P.; Zhang, H.
Flexible organic photovoltaics with star-shaped non-fullerene acceptors end-capped with indene malononitrile and barbiturate derivatives
Al-Anesi, B.; Revoju, S.; Hiltunen, A.; Suhonen, R.; Kraft, T.M.; Liu, M.; Zhang, H.; Deng, Z.; Fedele, C.; Berdin, A.; Lamminen, N.; Grandhi, G.K.; Ylikunnari, M.; Vivo, P.
In-Situ Formation of Zwitterionic Ligands: Changing the Passivation Paradigms of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals
Grisorio, R.; Fasulo, F.; Muñoz-García, A.B.; Pavone, M.; Conelli, D.; Fanizza, E.; Striccoli, M.; Allegretta, I.; Terzano, R.; Margiotta, N.; Vivo, P.; Suranna, G.P.
From Transistors to Phototransistors by Tailoring the Polymer Stacking
Cui, S.; Liang, D.; Liu, M.; Vivo, P.: Zheng, M.; Zhuang, T.; Sun, Q.; Yang, W.; Zhang, H.
Beyond hydrophobicity: how F4-TCNQ doping of the hole transport material improves stability of mesoporous triple-cation perovskite solar cells
Liu, M; Dahlström, S; Ahläng, C.; Wilken, S.; Degterev, A.; Matuhina, A.; Hadadian, M.; Markkanen, M.; Aitola, K.; Kamppinen, A.; Deska, J.; Mangs, O.; Nyman, M.; Lund, P.D.; Smått, J-H.; Österbacka, R.; Vivo, P.
Moisture-assisted near-UV emission enhancement of lead-free Cs4CuIn2Cl12 double perovskite nanocrystals
Liu, M.; Matta, S.K., Ali-Löytty, H.; Matuhina, A.; Grandhi, G.K.; Lahtonen, K.; Russo, S.P.; Vivo, P.
Efficiency improvement for perovskite-inspired Cs3Sb2I9 solar cells using P3HT as the hole transport material
Hiltunen, A.; Lamminen, N.; Salonen, H.; Liu, M.; Vivo, P.