Prof. Jacek Jasieniak | ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Prof. Jacek Jasieniak

Chief Investigator

Nanomaterials Laboratory for Next Generation Technologies

Jacek is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University and is also current the Associate Dean (Research) for the Engineering Faculty. He is interested in developing nanoscale materials and applying these to energy technologies that can be commercialized to solve real world problems.

Qualifications: 
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Chancellor's Prize
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Nanotechnology, Flinders University
1st Class Honours, University Medal

Publications

Journal Articles
Rietwyk, K. J.; Lin, X.; Tan, B.; Warnakula, T.; Holzhey, P.; Zhao, B.; Deng, S.; Surmiak, M. A.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Bach, U. Ideality Factor Mapping of Back‐Contact Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 2023, 2200796 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202200796. doi: 10.1002/aenm.202200796
Yu, J.; Hu, S.; Gao, H.; Delikanli, S.; Liu, B.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Sharma, M.; Demir, H. Volkan. Observation of Phonon Cascades in Cu-Doped Colloidal Quantum Wells. Nano Letters 2022, 22 (24), 10224-10231 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03427. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03427
Peiris, T. A. Nirmal; Benitez, J.; Sutherland, L.; Sharma, M.; Michalska, M.; Scully, A. D.; Vak, D.; Gao, M.; Weerasinghe, H. C.; Jasieniak, J. J. A Stable Aqueous SnO2 Nanoparticle Dispersion for Roll-to-Roll Fabrication of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells. Coatings 2022, 12 (12), 1948 DOI: 10.3390/coatings12121948. doi: 10.3390/coatings12121948
Lin, Q.; Bernardi, S.; Shabbir, B.; Ou, Q.; Wang, M.; Yin, W.; Liu, S.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Fürer, S. O.; Si, G.; et al. Phase-Control of Single-Crystalline Inorganic Halide Perovskites via Molecular Coordination Engineering. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32 (16), 2270096 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202109442. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202109442
Li, H.; Yin, W.; Ng, C. Kiu; Huang, R.; Du, S.; Sharma, M.; Li, B.; Yuan, G.; Michalska, M.; Matta, S. Kasi; et al. Macroporous perovskite nanocrystal composites for ultrasensitive copper ion detection. Nanoscale 2022, 14 (33), 11953 - 11962 DOI: 10.1039/D2NR02737B. doi: 10.1039/D2NR02737B
Shabbir, B.; Liu, J.; Krishnamurthi, V.; Ayyubi, R. A. W.; Tran, K.; Tawfik, S. Abdulkader; M. Hossain, M.; Khan, H.; Wu, Y.; Shivananju, B. Nanjunda; et al. Soft X-ray Detectors Based on SnS Nanosheets for the Water Window Region. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32 (3), 2105038 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202105038. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202105038
Yu, J. Choul; Li, B.; Dunn, C. J.; Yan, J.; Diroll, B. T.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Jasieniak, J. J. High-Performance and Stable Semi-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells through Composition Engineering. Advanced Science 2022, 9 (22), 2201487 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202201487. doi: 10.1002/advs.202201487
Sutherland, L. J.; Vak, D.; Gao, M.; Peiris, T. Anton Nirm; Jasieniak, J. J.; Simon, G. P.; Weerasinghe, H. Vacuum‐Free and Solvent‐Free Deposition of Electrodes for Roll‐to‐Roll Fabricated Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 2022, 12 (40), 2202142 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202202142. doi: 10.1002/aenm.202202142
Peiris, T. A. Nirmal; Weerasinghe, H. C.; Sharma, M.; Kim, J. - E.; Michalska, M.; Chandrasekaran, N.; Senevirathna, D. C.; Li, H.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Vak, D.; et al. Non-Aqueous One-Pot SnO2 Nanoparticle Inks and Their Use in Printable Perovskite Solar Cells. Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34 (12), 5535 - 5545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00578. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00578
Zia, A.; Finnegan, J. R.; Morrow, J. P.; Yin, W.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Pentzer, E.; Thickett, S.; Davis, T. P.; Kempe, K. Intrinsic Green Fluorescent Cross-Linked Poly(ester amide)s by Spontaneous Zwitterionic Copolymerization. Biomacromolecules 2021, 22 (11), 4794–4804 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01087. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01087
Akinoglu, E. Metin; Hoogeveen, D. A.; Cao, C.; Simonov, A. N.; Jasieniak, J. J. Prospects of Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Systems Based on Metal Halide Perovskites. ACS Nano 2021, 15 (5), 7860 - 7878 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10387. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10387
Senevirathna, D. C.; Yu, J. Choul; Peiris, T. A. Nirmal; Li, B.; Michalska, M.; Li, H.; Jasieniak, J. J. Impact of Anion Impurities in Commercial PbI2 on Lead Halide Perovskite Films and Solar Cells. ACS Materials Letters 2021, 3 (4), 351 - 355 DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00098. doi: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00098
Ng, C. Kiu; Deng, H.; Li, H.; Yin, W.; Alan, T.; Jasieniak, J. J. Synthesis of CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals with acoustically actuated millisecond mixing. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2021, 9 (1), 313 - 321 DOI: 10.1039/D0TC04519E. doi: 10.1039/D0TC04519E
Panagiotidou, M.; Brito, M. C.; Hamza, K.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Zhou, J. Prospects of photovoltaic rooftops, walls and windows at a city to building scale. Solar Energy 2021, 230, 675 - 687 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.10.060. doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.10.060
Yin, W.; Li, H.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Tadgell, B.; Scully, A. D.; Wang, M.; Huang, W.; McNeill, C. R.; Wong, W. W. H.; Medhekar, N. V.; et al. Detection of Halomethanes Using Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2021, 15 (1), 1454–1464 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08794. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08794
Michalska, M.; Surmiak, M. Adam; Maasoumi, F.; Senevirathna, D. C.; Chantler, P.; Li, H.; Li, B.; Zhang, T.; Lin, X.; Deng, H.; et al. Microfluidic Processing of Ligand‐Engineered NiO Nanoparticles for Low‐Temperature Hole‐Transporting Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL 2021, 5 (8), 2100342 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202100342. doi: 10.1002/solr.202100342
Sun, J.; Chandrasekaran, N.; Liu, C.; Scully, A. D.; Yin, W.; Ng, C. Kiu; Jasieniak, J. J. Enhancement of 3D/2D Perovskite Solar Cells Using an F4TCNQ Molecular Additive. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020, 3 (9), 8205 - 8215 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00553. doi: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00553
Shi, J.; Li, Y.; Wu, J.; Wu, H.; Luo, Y.; Li, D.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Meng, Q. Exciton Character and High‐Performance Stimulated Emission of Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskite Polycrystalline Film. Advanced Optical Materials 2020, 1902026 DOI: 10.1002/adom.201902026. doi: 10.1002/adom.201902026
Wang, M.; Vasudevan, V.; Lin, S.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Russo, S. P.; Birbilis, N.; Medhekar, N. V. Molecular mechanisms of thermal instability in hybrid perovskite light absorbers for photovoltaic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 8 (34), 17765 - 17779 DOI: 10.1039/D0TA05356B. doi: 10.1039/D0TA05356B
Yu, J. Choul; Sun, J.; Chandrasekaran, N.; Dunn, C. J.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Jasieniak, J. J. Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells with a cross-linked hole transport layer. Nano Energy 2020, 71, 104635 DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104635. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104635
van Embden, J.; Mendes, J. O.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Gaspera, E. Della. Solution-Processed CuSbS2 Thin Films and Superstrate Solar Cells with CdS/In2S3 Buffer Layers. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020, 3 (8), 7885-7895 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c01296. doi: 10.1021/acsaem.0c01296
Ng, C. Kiu; Yin, W.; Li, H.; Jasieniak, J. J. Scalable synthesis of colloidal CsPbBr perovskite nanocrystals with high reaction yields through solvent and ligand engineering. Nanoscale 2020, 12 (8), 4859 - 4867 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10726F. doi: 10.1039/C9NR10726F
Li, B.; Shi, J.; Lu, J.; Tan, W. Liang; Yin, W.; Sun, J.; Jiang, L.; Jones, R. T.; Pigram, P.; McNeill, C. R.; et al. Facile Deposition of Mesoporous PbI2 through DMF:DMSO Solvent Engineering for Sequentially Deposited Metal Halide Perovskites. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020, 3 (4), 3358 - 3368 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b02391. doi: 10.1021/acsaem.9b02391
Liu, J.; Shabbir, B.; Wang, C.; Wan, T.; Ou, Q.; Yu, P.; Tadich, A.; Jiao, X.; Chu, D.; Qi, D.; et al. Flexible, Printable Soft‐X‐Ray Detectors Based on All‐Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots. Advanced Materials 2019, 31 (30), 1901644 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201901644. doi: 10.1002/adma.201901644
Zheng, J.; Luo, C.; Shabbir, B.; Wang, C.; Mao, W.; Zhang, Y.; Huang, Y.; Dong, Y.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Pan, C.; et al. Flexible photodetectors based on reticulated SWNT/perovskite quantum dot heterostructures with ultrahigh durability. Nanoscale 2019, 11 (16), 8020 - 8026 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR08026G. doi: 10.1039/C8NR08026G
Ritchie, C.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Mulvaney, P. Aqueous Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnSe4 Nanocrystals. Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31 (6), 2138-2150 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00100. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00100
Dai, Z.; Ou, Q.; Wang, C.; Si, G.; Shabbir, B.; Zheng, C.; Wang, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Huang, Y.; Dong, Y.; et al. Capillary-bridge mediated assembly of aligned perovskite quantum dots for high-performance photodetectors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019, 7 (20), 5954 - 5961 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC01104H. doi: 10.1039/C9TC01104H
Wang, C.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Yin, W.; Frazer, L.; Funston, A. M.; Jasieniak, J. J. Facile purification of CsPbX3 (X = Cl−, Br−, I−) perovskite nanocrystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2019, 151 (12), 121105 DOI: 10.1063/1.5123306. doi: 10.1063/1.5123306
Sun, J.; Pascoe, A. R.; Meyer, S.; Wu, Q.; Gaspera, E. Della; Raga, S. R.; Zhang, T.; Nattestad, A.; Bach, U.; Cheng, Y. - B.; et al. Ultrasonic spray deposition of TiO2 electron transport layers for reproducible and high efficiency hybrid perovskite solar cells. Solar Energy 2019, 188, 697 - 705 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.06.045. doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.06.045
Ng, C. Kiu; Wang, C.; Jasieniak, J. J. Synthetic Evolution of Colloidal Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. Langmuir 2019, 35 (36), 11609-11628 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00855. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00855
Shi, J.; Zhang, H.; Li, Y.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Li, Y.; Wu, H.; Luo, Y.; Li, D.; Meng, Q. Identification of high-temperature exciton states and their phase-dependent trapping behaviour in lead halide perovskites. Energy & Environmental Science 2018, 11 (6), 1460 - 1469 DOI: 10.1039/C7EE03543H. doi: 10.1039/C7EE03543H
Sun, J.; Lu, J.; Li, B.; Jiang, L.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Scully, A. D.; Gengenbach, T. R.; Cheng, Y.; Jasieniak, J. J. Inverted perovskite solar cells with high fill-factors featuring chemical bath deposited mesoporous NiO hole transporting layers. Nano Energy 2018, 49, 163 - 171 DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.04.026. doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.04.026
Ritchie, C.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Styles, M.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Mulvaney, P. Aqueous Synthesis of High-Quality Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 Nanocrystals and Their Thermal Annealing Characteristics. Langmuir 2018, 34 (4), 1655 - 1665 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03885. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03885
De Nolf, K.; Cosseddu, S. M.; Jasieniak, J. J.; Drijvers, E.; Martins, J. C.; Infante, I.; Hens, Z. Binding and Packing in Two-Component Colloidal Quantum Dot Ligand Shells: Linear versus Branched Carboxylates. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139 (9), 3456 - 3464 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b11328. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b11328
Sun, J.; Jasieniak, J. J. Semi-transparent solar cells. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2017, 50 (9), 093001 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa53d7. doi: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa53d7
Marques, F. C.; Jasieniak, J. J. Ionization potential and electron attenuation length of titanium dioxide deposited by atomic layer deposition determined by photoelectron spectroscopy in air. Applied Surface Science 2017, 422, 504 - 508 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.06.062. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.06.062