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Surface passivation and functionalisation for mass photometry

Suliana Manley, Jenny Sülzle, Laila Abdelaziz Abdelmoniem Elfeky

Interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy enables the label-free observation of biomolecules. Consequently, single-particle imaging and tracking with the iSCAT-based method known as mass photometry (MP) is a growing area of study. However, establishing ...

Wiley2024

A colloidal aqueous electrolyte modulated by oleic acid for durable zinc metal anode

Kangning Zhao

Continuous dendrites growth, as well as corrosion and side reactions of Zn metal anode seriously hinder the development of aqueous zinc ion batteries. To address these issues, oleic acid (OA) is dispersed into a 2 M ZnSO4 solution to form a novel colloidal ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Characterization and Development of Fired Passivating Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells

Mario Joe Lehmann

One of the key elements to improve mainstream crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell performance is surface passivation, which is at the center of the ongoing transition from cells with direct silicon-metal contacts to full area passivating contacts. In the ...

EPFL2022

Modeling Current Transients in a Reciprocal Motion Tribocorrosion Experiment

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Shoufan Cao

Tribocorrosion of passivating metals is a dynamic phenomenon causing degradation of materials by a combination of mechanical wear and electrochemical dissolution. The mechanical action typically produces a local removal of particles, metal as well as oxide ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2021

A Crevice Corrosion Model for Biomedical Trunnion Geometries and Surfaces Feature

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Angela Bermudez Castañeda

Modular hip joint implants were introduced in arthroplasty medical procedures because they facilitate the tailoring of patients’ anatomy, the use of different materials in one single configuration, as well as medical revision. However, in certain cases, su ...

2021

Surface Reconstruction Engineering with Synergistic Effect of Mixed‐Salt Passivation Treatment toward Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Hui-Seon Kim, Jiajia Suo, Yeonju Kim

Surface passivation treatment is a widely used strategy to resolve trap-mediated nonradiative recombination toward high-efficiency metal-halide perovskite photovoltaics. However, a lack of passivation with mixture treatment has been investigated, as well a ...

2021

Phosphine Oxide Derivative as a Passivating Agent to Enhance the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Mounir Driss Mensi, Aron Joel Huckaba, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Hobeom Kim, Cansu Igci, Michael Gullberg, Aditya Gilra

Defects of metal-halide perovskites detrimentally influence the optoelectronic properties of the thin film and, ultimately, the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Especially, defect-mediated nonradiative recombination that occurs at ...

2021

Defect Passivation via the Incorporation of Tetrapropylammonium Cation Leading to Stability Enhancement in Lead Halide Perovskite

Anurag Krishna

Improving the performances of photovoltaic (PV) devices by suppressing nonradiative energy losses through surface defect passivation and enhancing the stability to the level of standard PV represents one critical challenge for perovskite solar cells. Here, ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Rapid Performance Optimization Method for Photoelectrodes

Sophia Haussener, Yannick Kenneth Gaudy

We report the development of a rapid method for the performance optimization of photoelectrodes. The method requires as an input incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE) measurements of a material at two or more wavelengths, an estimation of the comple ...

2019

Advances in the characterization of nanowire photovoltaic devices

Dmitry Mikulik

III-V nanowires (NWs) have a great potential for solar energy applications due to their diameter-dependent optical properties, which may enhance absorption of light. In addition, core-shell radial p-i-n structures, in which the direction of light absorptio ...

EPFL2018

Micromechanics of Amorphous Metal/Polymer Hybrid Structures with 3D Cellular Architectures: Size Effects, Buckling Behavior, and Energy Absorption Capability

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Cédric Frantz

By designing advantageous cellular geometries and combining the material size effects at the nanometer scale, lightweight hybrid microarchitectured materials with tailored structural properties are achieved. Prior studies reported the mechanical properties ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Effects of surface oxide formation on germanium nanowire band-edge photoluminescence

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

The effect of intentional surface oxide formation on band-edge photoluminescence (PL) of Ge nanowires was investigated. Thermal oxidation in molecular O-2 was used to produce a surface oxide layer on assemblies of single crystal nanowires grown by the vapo ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Chemical-mechanical polishing of tungsten : electrochemical and tribocorrosion approach

The chemical-mechanical polishing process (CMP) is an essential part of the production of integrated circuits. Metal to be polished in the CMP reacts with the oxidants from the aqueous suspension (slurry) and the passive film is formed on the metal surface ...

EPFL2009

Catalytic coating of virus particles with zinc oxide

Klaus Kern, Sinan Balci

We show that the rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) can be coated with the wide band gap semiconductor zinc oxide by electroless deposition under mild reaction conditions. The process involves pretreatment with aqueous Pd(II), followed by nucleation of ...

2009

Methods for functionalization of microsized polystyrene beads with titania nanoparticles for cathodic electrophoretic deposition

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler

Functionalization of colloidal particles based on the use of polyelectrolytes and heterocoagulation was combined with electrophoretic deposition (EPD), with the aim of depositing titania-polystyrene (TiO2-PS) composite particles on Ti6A14V substrates. The ...

2008

Reactivity of electrogenerated free hydroxyl radicals and activation of dioxygen on boron-doped diamond electrodes

Agnieszka Kapalka

Synthetic boron-doped diamond (BDD) thin film is an electrode material with high chemical and dimensional stability, low background current and a very wide potential window of water stability. Upon anodic polarization, BDD generates hydroxyl radicals that ...

EPFL2008

Metal and metaloxide nanostructures on and in plant viruses

Sinan Balci

Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) is composed of 2130 identical coat protein subunits following the right-handed helix of an accompanying RNA strand to produce a 300 nm hollow cylinder with an outer diameter of 18 nm and a 4 nm wide central channel. In this work, ...

EPFL2006

Formation of Metal Nano- and Micro-patterns on Self-Assembled Monolayers Using Pulsed Laser Deposition through Nanostencils and Electroless Deposition

Jürgen Brugger, Marc Antonius Friedrich van den Boogaart

Patterns of noble-metal structures on top of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au and SiO2 substrates have been prepared following two approaches. The first approach consists of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of Pt, Pd, Au, or Cu through nano- and microst ...

2006