Energy Advances Blog

We are very pleased to announce that Anita Ho-Baillie (University of Sydney, Australia) has joined the Energy Advances team as an Associate Editor.

Anita Ho-Baillie is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales. She is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher from 2019 and 2021.

Her research is on solar photovoltaic materials and devices including single junctions and multi-junction tandems.

She has been named the leader in Sustainable Energy Research in 2021 by the Australian Newspaper Annual Research Magazine. She is also an Australian Museum Eureka Prize Finalist in 2021.

Read her latest work in related RSC Energy and Physical Chemistry journals:

Efficient and stable wide bandgap perovskite solar cells through surface passivation with long alkyl chain organic cations
The Duong, Huyen Pham, Yanting Yin, Jun Peng, Md Arafat Mahmud, YiLiang Wu, Heping Shen, Jianghui Zheng, Thanh Tran-Phu, Teng Lu, Li Li, Anand Kumar, Gunther G. Andersson, Anita Ho-Baillie, Yun Liu, Thomas White, Klaus Weber and Kylie Catchpole*
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 18454-18465

Light-activated inorganic CsPbBr₂I perovskite for room-temperature self-powered chemical sensing
Hongjun Chen*, Meng Zhang, Xiao Fu, Zelio Fusco, Renheng Bo, Bobo Xing, Hieu T. Nguyen, Chog Barugkin, Jianghui Zheng, Cho Fai Jonathan Lau, Shujuan Huang, Anita W. Y. Ho-Baillie, Kylie R. Catchpole and Antonio Tricoli*
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 24187-24193

We’re pleased to share this great infographic detailing the use of density functional theory calculations to predict an increase in catalytic activity by doping anatase TiO₂ with manganese atoms (Mn), which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Effect of doping TiO₂ with Mn for electrocatalytic oxidation in acid and alkaline electrolytes’

 Samira Siahrostami and Xiaolin Zheng et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 357-366

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2YA00027J

We’re delighted to share this great infographic detailing a roadmap for automotive battery technology and its production process throughout 2030 based on market expectations and expert knowledge, which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Technological innovation vs. tightening raw material markets: falling battery costs put at risk’

Lukas Mauler et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 136-145

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1YA00052G

We’re excited to share this latest eye-catching infographic about employing polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a defect passivator for CsPbI₃ perovskite films where the unencapsulated CsPbI₃ perovskite cells exhibited superior thermal and humidity stability with 16.21% power conversion efficiency, which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Stabilizing all-inorganic CsPbI₃ perovskite films with polyacrylonitrile for photovoltaic solar cells’

Ke-Jian Jiang, Yiqiang Zhang and Yanlin Song et al., Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 62-66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1YA00068C

We’re excited to share this fantastic new infographic about a new method to create an efficient vacuum deposited electron extraction layer (EEL) using a mixture of conventional organic small molecules, C₆₀ and bathocuproine (BCP), which was published in Issue 1 of Energy Advances. Read the entire open-access article at:

‘Simple approach for an electron extraction layer in an all-vacuum processed n-i-p perovskite solar cell’

Beom-Soo Kim and Henk J. Bolink et al., Energy. Adv., 2022, 1, 252-257

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1YA00084E