News

2024

• Congrats to Dr. Arthur Maufort for successfully defending his Ph.D. on the 23rd of October!

• Congrats to Stijn Lenaers for first publication as a first author, published in Advanced Functional Materials (Wiley)! We show that a phosphonic acid derivative with a pyrene organic core can act as a HTL, resulting in inverted perovskite solar cells with enhanced stability, efficiency, and reproducibility as compared to the literature reference 2PACz.

• Congrats to HyMaD Ph.D. student Robin Erkens for successfully obtaining a personal Ph.D. grant from FWO!

• The HyMaD group welcomes a new Ph.D. student, Arne Verding. We wish Arne the best of luck with his research on energy level tuning in 2D perovskites for transistor applications.

• On the 15 of May, the HyMaD group was happy to host Prof. dr. Letian Dou (Purdue University, U.S.) at Hasselt University. Prof. Dou gave a lecture entitled 'Supramolecular Assembly and Light-Emission in Organic Semiconductor-incorporated Perovskite (OSiP)'

• Prof. Wouter Van Gompel and Drs. Arthur Maufort will be representing HyMaD at the MRS Spring conference in Seattle from the 7th till the 9th of May. Both will give a talk in the "QT03: Physics of 2D Halide and Chalcogenides Semiconductors" symposium.

• Prof. Wouter Van Gompel and Drs. Stijn Lenaers will be representing HyMaD at the MATSUS24 conference in Barcelona from the 4th till the 8th of March. Wouter will give a talk in the "#2Dpero" symposium, Stijn will present his work in the poster session.

• Congrats to Arthur Maufort for his first publication as a first author, published in Inorganic Chemistry (ACS)! It presents a detailed study of the non-covalent interactions in 2D HOIPs containing benzotriazole-based organic cations that show interdigitation in the organic bilayer.