Monica Morales-Masis
@mmoralesmasis.bsky.social
Materials scientist. Professor at the University of Twente.
Passions: Materials Science and Painting.
Looking at the periodic table as a paint palette and applying creativity in both, science and art.
Passions: Materials Science and Painting.
Looking at the periodic table as a paint palette and applying creativity in both, science and art.
Pinned
Now online:
Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition
nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#chemsky
Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition
nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#chemsky
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition - Nature Synthesis
Pulsed laser deposition is used for the heteroepitaxial growth of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) thin films on a KCl substrate at room temperature. Experimental and computational results conf...
nature.com
Super proud of this work! Epitaxial growth of halide perovskites at room temperature by PLD: Beautiful reciprocal space maps 🤩, nice strain calculations by @hybridlinn.bsky.social 💫 and co., and optoelectronic characterization together with Czech Acad. Sci., AMOLF and U. of Oxford. #ERCStGCREATE
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Come do a PhD with us! 🧪☀️
This position is part of a collaborative project to understand and improve the stability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. You'd be based at @uni-freiburg.de working in close collaboration with @fraunhoferise.bsky.social.
Deadline 30.11.2025
This position is part of a collaborative project to understand and improve the stability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. You'd be based at @uni-freiburg.de working in close collaboration with @fraunhoferise.bsky.social.
Deadline 30.11.2025
Universität Freiburg
uni-freiburg.de
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Come do a PhD with us! 🧪☀️
This position is part of a collaborative project to understand and improve the stability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. You'd be based at @uni-freiburg.de working in close collaboration with @fraunhoferise.bsky.social.
Deadline 30.11.2025
This position is part of a collaborative project to understand and improve the stability of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. You'd be based at @uni-freiburg.de working in close collaboration with @fraunhoferise.bsky.social.
Deadline 30.11.2025
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
💥Last day to submit your oral abstract for IPEROP25!
👉Join IPEROP26 to explore cutting-edge advances in hybrid and organic solar cells driven by innovation in materials, modeling and fabrication.
📍Nagoya,Japan
🗓️13th-15th January 2026
🔗Send here now:https://www.nanoge.org/IPEROP26/home
👉Join IPEROP26 to explore cutting-edge advances in hybrid and organic solar cells driven by innovation in materials, modeling and fabrication.
📍Nagoya,Japan
🗓️13th-15th January 2026
🔗Send here now:https://www.nanoge.org/IPEROP26/home
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
💥Last day to submit your oral abstract for IPEROP25!
👉Join IPEROP26 to explore cutting-edge advances in hybrid and organic solar cells driven by innovation in materials, modeling and fabrication.
📍Nagoya,Japan
🗓️13th-15th January 2026
🔗Send here now:https://www.nanoge.org/IPEROP26/home
👉Join IPEROP26 to explore cutting-edge advances in hybrid and organic solar cells driven by innovation in materials, modeling and fabrication.
📍Nagoya,Japan
🗓️13th-15th January 2026
🔗Send here now:https://www.nanoge.org/IPEROP26/home
Come join us in Maine!
Check this out and come join us!
👀
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!
When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.
👀
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!
When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.
September 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Come join us in Maine!
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Need to take note of this #chemsky #compchemsky. For anyone in perovskites this GRC is a legend.
(Sadly, for me too so far. Did not manage to go and need to make a better effort this time! Thank you @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social and other organizers!)
(Sadly, for me too so far. Did not manage to go and need to make a better effort this time! Thank you @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social and other organizers!)
Check this out and come join us!
👀
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!
When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.
👀
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Unconventional Semiconductors is accepting applications. Limited to 200 spots, so please apply early!
When: July 26-31, 2026.
Where: University of Southern Maine.
September 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Need to take note of this #chemsky #compchemsky. For anyone in perovskites this GRC is a legend.
(Sadly, for me too so far. Did not manage to go and need to make a better effort this time! Thank you @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social and other organizers!)
(Sadly, for me too so far. Did not manage to go and need to make a better effort this time! Thank you @jpcorreabaena.bsky.social and other organizers!)
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
🟣Discover advances in vacuum deposition and hybrid techniques that are expanding the possibilities for halide perovskite materials and devices, enabling new performance and integration strategies at #MATSUS25 @nanoGe_Conf
🔗Submit your poster abstract: https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home
🔗Submit your poster abstract: https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home
August 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🟣Discover advances in vacuum deposition and hybrid techniques that are expanding the possibilities for halide perovskite materials and devices, enabling new performance and integration strategies at #MATSUS25 @nanoGe_Conf
🔗Submit your poster abstract: https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home
🔗Submit your poster abstract: https://www.nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/home
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
PLEASE REPOST: We have a 4-year, fully funded PhD studentship focussed on using computational chemistry to find new and improved oxides for X-ray detection, to start in October 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project.... This is open only to UK nationals.
Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Computational discovery of novel oxide-based X-ray detectors at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
findaphd.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
PLEASE REPOST: We have a 4-year, fully funded PhD studentship focussed on using computational chemistry to find new and improved oxides for X-ray detection, to start in October 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project.... This is open only to UK nationals.
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
As of June 1st, my promotion to Full Professor became official! We celebrated this milestone with the team at our traditional summer BBQ and took the opportunity to take a new group photo 🌟 #best #team, #optoelectronic #materials @erc.europa.eu #NWO #SolarNL
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As of June 1st, my promotion to Full Professor became official! We celebrated this milestone with the team at our traditional summer BBQ and took the opportunity to take a new group photo 🌟 #best #team, #optoelectronic #materials @erc.europa.eu #NWO #SolarNL
Can we grow #layered #low #dimensional #halides with #PLD?⚡And use this to make #stable 2D/3D #perovskite #heterostructures? The answers in our recently published work 👇.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erc.europa.eu. Great job Junia and collaborators from SAV, FZU and ITQ @pablopboix.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erc.europa.eu. Great job Junia and collaborators from SAV, FZU and ITQ @pablopboix.bsky.social
Oriented 2D Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides by pulsed laser deposition - npj 2D Materials and Applications
npj 2D Materials and Applications - Oriented 2D Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides by pulsed laser deposition
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Can we grow #layered #low #dimensional #halides with #PLD?⚡And use this to make #stable 2D/3D #perovskite #heterostructures? The answers in our recently published work 👇.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erc.europa.eu. Great job Junia and collaborators from SAV, FZU and ITQ @pablopboix.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@erc.europa.eu. Great job Junia and collaborators from SAV, FZU and ITQ @pablopboix.bsky.social
Don’t miss Junia’s talk about epitaxial halide perovskites and layered perovskites by room temperature #pld ⚡️
Are you tired of all the spin-coating or eaporation of perovskites or do you really want to hear about some exciting alternatives? Then, join us this Wednesday for Junia's talk on pulsed laser deposition -- Pew pew!
May 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don’t miss Junia’s talk about epitaxial halide perovskites and layered perovskites by room temperature #pld ⚡️
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 #𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 on the 𝐏𝐇𝐃 & 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 level!
If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply:
www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions
Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL
If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply:
www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions
Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 #𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 on the 𝐏𝐇𝐃 & 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 level!
If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply:
www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions
Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL
If you are interested in #spectroscopy & #materials science for spin-/optoelectronics, please consider joining our team. Details on the positions and how to apply:
www.feldmannlab.com/open-positions
Sharing with your network is greatly appreciated!🙏:) #EPFL
Super happy to see this cover out! 🤩 it highlights our work on epitaxial halide perovskites published in this issue. The cover was made by Tatiana Soto, alumni of the M3 lab 🌟
April issue live🌤️
RT epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3
Late-stage deuteration and tritiation
Topotactic transformations in large-pore zeolites
An antimony(III) dication
Capturing aromatic Cr5 pentagons
(continued)
www.nature.com/natsynth/vol...
#ChemSky
RT epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3
Late-stage deuteration and tritiation
Topotactic transformations in large-pore zeolites
An antimony(III) dication
Capturing aromatic Cr5 pentagons
(continued)
www.nature.com/natsynth/vol...
#ChemSky
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Super happy to see this cover out! 🤩 it highlights our work on epitaxial halide perovskites published in this issue. The cover was made by Tatiana Soto, alumni of the M3 lab 🌟
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
There you go.
Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There you go.
The protests against the proposed budget cuts in higher education in The Netherlands keep on going. Yesterday we had our turn at the University of Twente. And look who I found in the crowd: Linn Leppert @hybridlinn.bsky.social representing 💪
March 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The protests against the proposed budget cuts in higher education in The Netherlands keep on going. Yesterday we had our turn at the University of Twente. And look who I found in the crowd: Linn Leppert @hybridlinn.bsky.social representing 💪
M³-Lab group dinner to celebrate recent successes and welcome Vojta who visit us from the Czech Republic to continue experiments on high deposition rate PLD of metal halide perovskites. ⚡ #collaborations #teamwork #best_team #MaterialsScience #SolarEnergy
March 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
M³-Lab group dinner to celebrate recent successes and welcome Vojta who visit us from the Czech Republic to continue experiments on high deposition rate PLD of metal halide perovskites. ⚡ #collaborations #teamwork #best_team #MaterialsScience #SolarEnergy
In our latests work we show template-assisted PLD growth of CsxFA1-xPbI3 films: compositional control and phase-pure growth on planar and textured substrates 🔬. @kraljs.bsky.social and collaborators at EPFL (@pero-pal.bsky.social), EMPA and AMOLF advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Template‐Assisted Growth of CsxFA1‐xPbI3 with Pulsed Laser Deposition for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells
Template-assisted pulsed laser deposition (PLD) enables the growth of phase-pure α-CsxFA1-xPbI3 perovskite films. Stoichiometric transfer and uniform coverage on planar and textured substrates is dem...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In our latests work we show template-assisted PLD growth of CsxFA1-xPbI3 films: compositional control and phase-pure growth on planar and textured substrates 🔬. @kraljs.bsky.social and collaborators at EPFL (@pero-pal.bsky.social), EMPA and AMOLF advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Two weeks ago, we have celebrated the third #PhD #graduation from my team! Congratulations Dr. Adeem Saeed Mirza! 🚀 Great defense 👏 and great contributions to the experimental development of #p-type #transparent #conductive #materials 🔍. Work financed by the Dutch Research Council #NWO.
February 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Two weeks ago, we have celebrated the third #PhD #graduation from my team! Congratulations Dr. Adeem Saeed Mirza! 🚀 Great defense 👏 and great contributions to the experimental development of #p-type #transparent #conductive #materials 🔍. Work financed by the Dutch Research Council #NWO.
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Yes, this happened. Chemistry is affected most badly, but also other departments. Most of the PIs that were laid off had active groups, were publishing, receiving grants, teaching, and doing everything else we are told to do to be seen as valuable members of the academic community /1
Maybe with all that is going on in the states no one noticed, but in the Netherlands the university of Twente has fired 46 people from the chem department. One of them is Jeroen Cornelissen. A giant in the field #chemsky www.utoday.nl/news/75215/p...
Professor Jeroen Cornelissen: 'It could have been more humane'
Professor Jeroen Cornelissen was employed by the UT for no less than 16 years. Until last Monday. His entire department will disappear as of 1 June. His particular concern: what about the students and...
www.utoday.nl
February 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yes, this happened. Chemistry is affected most badly, but also other departments. Most of the PIs that were laid off had active groups, were publishing, receiving grants, teaching, and doing everything else we are told to do to be seen as valuable members of the academic community /1
Just published: Our latest work on #in-situ PL monitoring during #halide #perovskite #growth with PLD.
The key advantage of in-situ PL? It enables growth studies at various deposition rates, achieving up to a 10-fold enhancement in deposition speed of MHP with PLD!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The key advantage of in-situ PL? It enables growth studies at various deposition rates, achieving up to a 10-fold enhancement in deposition speed of MHP with PLD!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Halide Perovskites with over 10-Fold Enhanced Deposition Rates
The potential of the vapor-phase deposition of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) for solar cells remains largely untapped, particularly in achieving rapid deposition rates. In this study, we employ in s...
pubs.acs.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Just published: Our latest work on #in-situ PL monitoring during #halide #perovskite #growth with PLD.
The key advantage of in-situ PL? It enables growth studies at various deposition rates, achieving up to a 10-fold enhancement in deposition speed of MHP with PLD!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The key advantage of in-situ PL? It enables growth studies at various deposition rates, achieving up to a 10-fold enhancement in deposition speed of MHP with PLD!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Some of the #compchemsky DFT calculations in this paper were performed by Sebastian Reyes-Lillo, the master of strain, from Universidad Andres Bello in Chile, who’s not on Bluesky though.
January 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Some of the #compchemsky DFT calculations in this paper were performed by Sebastian Reyes-Lillo, the master of strain, from Universidad Andres Bello in Chile, who’s not on Bluesky though.
Super proud of this work! Epitaxial growth of halide perovskites at room temperature by PLD: Beautiful reciprocal space maps 🤩, nice strain calculations by @hybridlinn.bsky.social 💫 and co., and optoelectronic characterization together with Czech Acad. Sci., AMOLF and U. of Oxford. #ERCStGCREATE
Now online:
Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition
nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#chemsky
Article by Junia S. Solomon, @mmoralesmasis.bsky.social & co-workers
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition
nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
#chemsky
Room-temperature epitaxy of α-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition - Nature Synthesis
Pulsed laser deposition is used for the heteroepitaxial growth of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) thin films on a KCl substrate at room temperature. Experimental and computational results conf...
nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Super proud of this work! Epitaxial growth of halide perovskites at room temperature by PLD: Beautiful reciprocal space maps 🤩, nice strain calculations by @hybridlinn.bsky.social 💫 and co., and optoelectronic characterization together with Czech Acad. Sci., AMOLF and U. of Oxford. #ERCStGCREATE
End of my 'winter' holidays and family time in #CostaRica 🌴🌤️ 🍉
January 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
End of my 'winter' holidays and family time in #CostaRica 🌴🌤️ 🍉
Honored to contribute in this issue together with many amazing women scientists! 💫 Thank you @kamat.bsky.social and @acs.org for publishing these inspiring stories.
Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research: ParT7
Thanks to all researchers who shared their personal inspiring stories. Read the collection of articles at ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Thanks to all researchers who shared their personal inspiring stories. Read the collection of articles at ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
January 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Honored to contribute in this issue together with many amazing women scientists! 💫 Thank you @kamat.bsky.social and @acs.org for publishing these inspiring stories.
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Even without the existential impetus of climate change during his Presidency, Jimmy Carter sensed how high the stakes were. The energy crisis, he told Americans early on, was a reminder that “ours is the most wasteful nation on earth.”
Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary
As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.
www.newyorker.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Even without the existential impetus of climate change during his Presidency, Jimmy Carter sensed how high the stakes were. The energy crisis, he told Americans early on, was a reminder that “ours is the most wasteful nation on earth.”
Reposted by Monica Morales-Masis
Can we “design” amorphous materials with useful properties? We argue that #compchem & AI are bringing us closer towards this ambitious goal: rdcu.be/d3JD6
The amorphous state as a frontier in computational materials design
Nature Reviews Materials - Amorphous materials are increasingly central components of key technologies, but their structures remain challenging to study. This Perspective highlights how recent...
rdcu.be
December 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Can we “design” amorphous materials with useful properties? We argue that #compchem & AI are bringing us closer towards this ambitious goal: rdcu.be/d3JD6