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The hybrid organic inorganic perovskite (HOIP) team at NREL has the ability to grow high-quality hybrid perovskites for various solar conversion and optoelectronic applications.

NLR's solar furnace is ideally suited for small-scale feasibility studies. It is available for on-sun functional component performance testing and materials testing for photo-electrochemical (PEC) cell and STCH solar receiver.

First principles materials theory supports the mission of HydroGEN by providing atomic and electronic structure modeling capabilities, utilizing density functional theory and many-body GW methods, as well as parameterized Hamiltonians bridging the gap.

This capability serves as interface engineering for integration of the balance of plant (e.g. solar field, receiver, operations) into high-temperature solar fuel systems.

We apply ground-state density functional theory methods to understand the role of heterogeneity (e.g., facets or differential alloying) in determining catalytic properties of surfaces.

This capability is a suite of advanced spectroscopic techniques that can measure the spectral characteristics of both solid- and solution-state semiconductors, as well as the dynamics of excited state populations in these semiconductors.

The creation of new functional classes of thermochemical water splitting materials depends on integration of several core capabilities: enabling the design, evaluation, and qualification of new materials against known standard materials.

The analytical characterization of corrosion for advanced water splitting materials employs different tools depending upon the nature of the technology under consideration so the following information is broken into the relevant subheadings.

This capability involves characterizing semiconductors using photoelectrochemical (PEC) methods to measure their bulk and interfacial properties to determine their suitability for photoelectrolysis.

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