Postdoctoral position in lead-free halide perovskites encapsulated in mesoporous matrices for CO2 photoreduction

The SyMMES lab at CEA Grenoble is offering a post-doc position to a young qualified and highly motivated candidate to develop novel materials with Pb-free perovskite nanocrystals encapsulated in the pores of mesoporous silica for CO2 photoreduction.

The postdoc will work under superirvision Dmitry Aldakov (CNRS researcher), coordinator of a French collaborative project. The overall goal of the project is to produce valuable solar fuels using as light absorbers less-toxic halogenated perovskites encapsulated in various nanoporous matrices. Several parameters will be tested: pore sizes, types of nanoporous matrices, chemistry of the perovskites to enhance their stability and control their size. The obtained perovskite nanocrystals grown in the pores will be studied by a variety of methods to identify their chemical composition, structure, and stability. Several treatments (surface passivation, doping etc.) will be performed to further improve the optical properties of the nanocomposites and establish structure-properties relationships. The most promising optimized nanomaterials will be used for the efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction into solar fuels in collaboration with an academic partner.