On January 21st, the ICARE Chinese mentors Prof. Chen Wei and Prof. Liu Zonghao, in collaboration with Prof. Nam-Gyu Park’s team from Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea) and other partners, published a research paper titled “Solvated intermediate-driven surface transformation of lead halide perovskites” in Nature Energy.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) is the first completing institution of this paper. The co-first authors are Dr. Liu Sanwan (affiliated with HUST and Sungkyunkwan University), Master’s student Miao Tianyin (HUST), Dr. Wang Jianan (HUST), Dr. Chen Rui (HUST), and Assistant Professor Zhang Yong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)). The corresponding authors are Associate Professor Liu Zonghao, Professor Chen Wei, and Professor Nam-Gyu Park (Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology).

This research was supported by the Research Leadership Program and Carbon Neutrality Technology Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Innovation Program of Optics Valley Laboratory, the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, the Independent Innovation Research Fund of HUST, and the HUST “Basic Research Support Program.”