Publications

Article 2026 Published

Enhancing Direct Solar Water Splitting via ALD of Multifunctional TiO₂/Pt Nanoparticle Coatings With Engineered Interfaces to GaAs/GaInP Tandem Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 36

Rieth, Tim F.; Streibel, Verena; Bienek, Oliver; Levashov, Sergej; Dittloff, Johannes; Möller, Kristof; Eichhorn, Johanna; May, Matthias M.; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2026 Published

Overcoming Uncontrolled Nucleation and Cesium Salt Solubility Limits in Scalable Perovskite Deposition through All-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystal Seeding

ACS applied materials & interfaces, Vol. 18, pp. 45294-45303

Buyan-Arivjikh, Altantulga; Wolz, Lukas M.M.; Kumar, Arun; Ci, Xiaojing; Kumar, Ajeet; Tremel, Luc; Li, Yanan; Everett, Christopher Reck; Pan, Guangjiu; Zhang, Jinsheng; Xu, Zhuijun; Hauer, Jürgen; Unger, Eva; Roth, Stephan V.; Eichhorn, Johanna; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter

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Article 2026 Published

Charged grain boundaries limit short-circuit endurance in garnet solid-state battery electrolytes

Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 21, pp. 1174-1183

Chu, Hyunwon; Defferriere, Thomas; Nandi, Proloy; Kaiser, Waldemar; Wolz, Lukas M.; Kurnia, Fran; Kim, Kun Joong; O’Leary, Willis; Altantzis, Thomas; Verbeeck, Johan; Egger, David A.; Bals, Sara; Eichhorn, Johanna; Tuller, Harry L.; Rupp, Jennifer L.M.

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Article 2026 Published

Disentangling surface and bulk properties of Ta₃N₅ photoanodes

Nature Communications, Vol. 17

Wolz, Lukas M.; Buyan-Arivjikh, Altantulga; Dushimineza, Jean Felix; Dittloff, Johannes; Wagner, Laura I.; Grötzner, Gabriel; Blänsdorf, Jan Luca; Kuhl, Matthias; Levashov, Sergej; Kühne, Julius; Zhou, Guanda; Matich, Sonja; Santra, Saswati; Streibel, Verena; Munnik, Frans; Müller-Caspary, Knut; Sharp, Ian D.; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Eichhorn, Johanna

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Article 2025 Published

Scanning probe spectroscopy of sulfur vacancies and MoS₂ monolayers in side-contacted van der Waals heterostructures

2D Materials, Vol. 12

Nisi, K.; Thomas, J. C.; Levashov, S.; Mitterreiter, E.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Aloni, S.; Kuykendall, T. R.; Eichhorn, J.; Holleitner, A. W.; Weber-Bargioni, A.; Kastl, C.

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Article 2025 Published

Atomically Flat Dielectric Patterns for Bandgap Engineering and Lateral Junction Formation in MoSe₂ Monolayers

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 35

Moser, Philipp; Wolz, Lukas M.; Henning, Alex; Thurn, Andreas; Kuhl, Matthias; Ji, Peirui; Soubelet, Pedro; Schalk, Martin; Eichhorn, Johanna; Sharp, Ian D.; Stier, Andreas V.; Finley, Jonathan J.

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Article 2025 Published

Oxygen Incorporation as a Route to Nondegenerate Zinc Nitride Semiconductor Thin Films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 17, pp. 7958-7968

Sirotti, Elise; Scaparra, Bianca; Böhm, Stefan; Pantle, Florian; Wagner, Laura I.; Rauh, Felix; Munnik, Frans; Jiang, Chang Ming; Kuhl, Matthias; Müller, Kai; Eichhorn, Johanna; Streibel, Verena; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2025 Published

An Interdisciplinary Perspective to the Application of In Situ/Operando Techniques in Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Processes and its Future

ChemPhysChem, Vol. 26

Favaro, Marco; Eichhorn, Johanna; Kuno, Masaru; Subramanian, Vaidyanathan Ravi

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Article 2024 Published

Ligand-Tuned AgBiS₂ Planar Heterojunctions Enable Efficient Ultrathin Solar Cells

ACS Nano, Vol. 18, pp. 33348-33358

Chen, Jianian; Zhong, Qixuan; Sirotti, Elise; Zhou, Guanda; Wolz, Lukas; Streibel, Verena; Dittloff, Johannes; Eichhorn, Johanna; Ji, Yongqiang; Zhao, Lichen; Zhu, Rui; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2024 Published

Amorphous nitride semiconductors with highly tunable optical and electronic properties: the benefits of disorder in Ca-Zn-N thin films

Materials Horizons, Vol. 12, pp. 1971-1980

Sirotti, Elise; Böhm, Stefan; Grötzner, Gabriel; Christis, Maximilian; Wagner, Laura I.; Wolz, Lukas; Munnik, Frans; Eichhorn, Johanna; Stutzmann, Martin; Streibel, Verena; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2022 Published

Real-Time Investigation of Sulfur Vacancy Generation and Passivation in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide via in situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy

ACS Nano, Vol. 16, pp. 20364-20375

Grünleitner, Theresa; Henning, Alex; Bissolo, Michele; Zengerle, Marisa; Gregoratti, Luca; Amati, Matteo; Zeller, Patrick; Eichhorn, Johanna; Stier, Andreas V.; Holleitner, Alexander W.; Finley, Jonathan J.; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2022 Published

Characterization of Chemically Modified TiO₂Synthesized via Sustainable Superoxidation of Ti

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 126, pp. 6223-6230

Savino, Umberto; Eichhorn, Johanna; Liu, Guiji; Sacco, Adriano; Laurenti, Marco; Chatterjee, Ruchira; Zeng, Guosong; Castellino, Micaela; Bejtka, Katarzyna; Yano, Junko; Tresso, Elena Maria; Chiodoni, Angelica; Toma, Francesca Maria

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Article 2022 Published

Solution-based synthesis of wafer-scale epitaxial BiVO₄ thin films exhibiting high structural and optoelectronic quality

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 10, pp. 12026-12034

Kunzelmann, Viktoria F.; Jiang, Chang Ming; Ihrke, Irina; Sirotti, Elise; Rieth, Tim; Henning, Alex; Eichhorn, Johanna; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2022 Published

Designing Multifunctional Cobalt Oxide Layers for Efficient and Stable Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution

Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 9

Kuhl, Matthias; Henning, Alex; Haller, Lukas; Wagner, Laura I.; Jiang, Chang Ming; Streibel, Verena; Sharp, Ian D.; Eichhorn, Johanna

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Article 2021 Published

Indirect bandgap, optoelectronic properties, and photoelectrochemical characteristics of high-purity Ta₃N₅photoelectrodes

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 9, pp. 20653-20663

Eichhorn, Johanna; Lechner, Simon P.; Jiang, Chang Ming; Folchi Heunecke, Giulia; Munnik, Frans; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2021 Published

CO₂ reduction on pure Cu produces only H₂ after subsurface O is depleted: Theory and experiment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118

Liu, Guiji; Lee, Michelle; Kwon, Soonho; Zeng, Guosong; Eichhorn, Johanna; Buckley, Aya K.; Toste, F. Dean; Goddard, William A.; Toma, Francesca M.

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Article 2021 Published

Metastable Ta₂N₃with highly tunable electrical conductivity: Via oxygen incorporation

Materials Horizons, Vol. 8, pp. 1744-1755

Jiang, Chang Ming; Wagner, Laura I.; Horton, Matthew K.; Eichhorn, Johanna; Rieth, Tim; Kunzelmann, Viktoria F.; Kraut, Max; Li, Yanbo; Persson, Kristin A.; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2021 Published

Nanoscale Heterogeneities and Composition-Reactivity Relationships in Copper Vanadate Photoanodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 13, pp. 23575-23583

Eichhorn, Johanna; Jiang, Chang Ming; Cooper, Jason K.; Sharp, Ian D.; Toma, Francesca M.

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Article 2020 Published

Revealing Nanoscale Chemical Heterogeneities in Polycrystalline Mo-BiVO₄ Thin Films

Small, Vol. 16

Eichhorn, Johanna; Reyes-Lillo, Sebastian E.; Roychoudhury, Subhayan; Sallis, Shawn; Weis, Johannes; Larson, David M.; Cooper, Jason K.; Sharp, Ian D.; Prendergast, David; Toma, Francesca M.

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Article 2019 Published

Si photocathode with Ag-supported dendritic Cu catalyst for CO₂ reduction

Energy and Environmental Science, Vol. 12, pp. 1068-1077

Gurudayal; Beeman, Jeffrey W.; Bullock, James; Wang, Hao; Eichhorn, Johanna; Towle, Clarissa; Javey, Ali; Toma, Francesca M.; Mathews, Nripan; Ager, Joel W.

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Article 2019 Published

Effects of Defects on Band Structure and Excitons in WS₂ Revealed by Nanoscale Photoemission Spectroscopy

ACS Nano, Vol. 13, pp. 1284-1291

Kastl, Christoph; Koch, Roland J.; Chen, Christopher T.; Eichhorn, Johanna; Ulstrup, Søren; Bostwick, Aaron; Jozwiak, Chris; Kuykendall, Tevye R.; Borys, Nicholas J.; Toma, Francesca M.; Aloni, Shaul; Weber-Bargioni, Alexander; Rotenberg, Eli; Schwartzberg, Adam M.

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Article 2019 Published

Directing Selectivity of Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Using Plasmonics

ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 4, pp. 1098-1105

Creel, Erin B.; Corson, Elizabeth R.; Eichhorn, Johanna; Kostecki, Robert; Urban, Jeffrey J.; McCloskey, Bryan D.

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Article 2019 Published

Interface engineering for light-driven water oxidation: Unravelling the passivating and catalytic mechanism in BiVO ₄ overlayers

Sustainable Energy and Fuels, Vol. 3, pp. 127-135

Liu, Guiji; Eichhorn, Johanna; Jiang, Chang Ming; Scott, Mary C.; Hess, Lucas H.; Gregoire, John M.; Haber, Joel A.; Sharp, Ian D.; Toma, Francesca M.

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Article 2018 Published

Quantification of the loss mechanisms in emerging water splitting photoanodes through empirical extraction of the spatial charge collection efficiency

Energy and Environmental Science, Vol. 11, pp. 904-913

Segev, Gideon; Jiang, Chang Ming; Cooper, Jason K.; Eichhorn, Johanna; Toma, Francesca M.; Sharp, Ian D.

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Article 2018 Published

Disentangling the Role of Surface Chemical Interactions on Interfacial Charge Transport at BiVO ₄ Photoanodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 10, pp. 35129-35136

Eichhorn, Johanna; Kastl, Christoph; Schwartzberg, Adam M.; Sharp, Ian D.; Toma, Francesca M.

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