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Stretchable High Response Piezoelectric Elastomers Based on Polable Polynorbornene Fillers in a Polydimethylsiloxane Matrix

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu

To advance the field of piezoelectrics, it is desirable to find materials that combine high piezoelectricity with high elasticity. Applications such as self-sensors, stretchable electronics, soft robots, and energy harvesting would benefit tremendously. Ho ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Influence of Frequency Dependent Dielectric and Mechanical Properties on the Performance for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Yves Leterrier, John Christopher Plummer, Frank Nüesch

2010

Electrical energy generated by silicone elastomers filled with nanospring- carbon- nanotubes

Frank Nüesch

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) are flexible capacitors that convert mechanical into electrical energy. They rely on an external voltage source to charge the capacitor during each operation cycle. An alternative to this is an autonomous DEG which op ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Cyanine tandem and triple-junction solar cells

Frank Nüesch, Lei Wang, Hui Zhang, René Uwe Schneider, Björn Niesen

Ultrathin bilayer heterojunction solar cells using cyanine electron donors and electron acceptor C-60 are used to fabricate monolithically stacked tandem and triple junction devices. Sub-cell stack sequences as well as C-60 layer thicknesses are optimized ...

Elsevier2016

Nanocellulose-MXene Biomimetic Aerogels with Orientation-Tunable Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Designing lightweight nanostructured aerogels for high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is crucial yet challenging. Ultrathin cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are employed for assisting in building ultralow-density, robust, and highly f ...

2020

Inkjet printed mesoscopic perovskite solar cells with custom design capability

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Customizable solar cells are required for aesthetic indoor and outdoor photovoltaic deployment as well as for the freedom of design of small and portable power supplies. We demonstrate that drop on demand inkjet printing can be used for the fabrication of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Solution Processing and Self-Organization of PbS Quantum Dots Passivated with Formamidinium Lead Iodide (FAPbI(3))

Frank Nüesch

Solution-processed lead sulfide quantum dots (PbS QDs) are very attractive as NIR-active semiconductors for the fabrication of cost-efficient optoelectronic devices. To control the thin film carrier transport, as well as stability, surface passivation is o ...

2020

On-Demand Cross-Linkable Bottlebrush Polymers for Voltage- Driven Artificial Muscles

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu, Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) generate motion resembling natural muscles in reliability, adaptability, elongation, and frequency of operation. They are highly attractive in implantable soft robots or artificial organs. However, many applications of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Elastomers Based on Polynorbornene with Polar Polysiloxane Brushes for Soft Transducer Applications

Frank Nüesch, Yeerlan Adeli

Elastomers based on cross-linked bottlebrush polymers combine an extreme softness at low strains with a strain-stiffening effect, which makes them attractive as active components in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA). Their main disadvantage concerns the ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2024

Counterion effects in cyanine heterojunction photovoltaic devices

Frank Nüesch, Libero Zuppiroli, Antonin Faes

We investigated cyanine heterojunction photovoltaic devices using carbocyanine dyes as donors and buckminsterfullerene (C60) as acceptor. In particular, we focused on the influence of cyanine counterions on the photovoltaic device characteristics. It was f ...

2005

Enhanced Room-Temperature Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in Morphology Controlled J-Aggregates

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies from organic dyes forming J-aggregates are known to exhibit narrowband photoluminescence with full-width at half maximum of approximate to 9 nm (260 cm(-1)). Applications of these high color purity emitters, however, are hampered ...

2021

Shortwave infrared-absorbing squaraine dyes for all-organic optical upconversion devices

Frank Nüesch

Shortwave infrared (SWIR) optical sensing and imaging are essential to an increasing number of next-generation applications in communications, process control or medical imaging. An all-organic SWIR upconversion device (OUC) consists of an organic SWIR sen ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Formation of electron traps in semiconducting polymers via a slow triple-encounter between trap precursor particles

Frank Nüesch, Wei-Hsu Hu

Already in 2012, Blom et al. reported (Nature Materials 2012, 11, 882) in semiconducting polymers on a general electron-trap density of approximate to 3 x 10(17) cm(-3), centered at an energy of approximate to 3.6 eV below vacuum. It was suggested that tra ...

2024

Excitonic channels from bio-inspired templated supramolecular assembly of J-aggregate nanowirest

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies with controlled morphology are of paramount importance for energy transport in organic semiconductors. Despite considerable freedom in molecular design, the preparation of dyes that form one dimensional J-aggregates is challenging ...

2019

Ultrafast charge transfer in solid-state films of pristine cyanine borate and blends with fullerene

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Jelissa Risse

Photoinduced electron transfer in light-absorbing materials is the first step towards charge separation and extraction in small molecule-based organic solar cells. The excited state dynamics of the cyanine dye cation Cy3 paired with a tetraphenylborate cou ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

The Dynamic Emission Zone in Sandwich Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

Frank Nüesch, Matthias Diethelm

In light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs), the position of the emission zone (EZ) is not predefined via a multilayer architecture design, but governed by a complex motion of electrical and ionic charges. As a result of the evolution of doped charge tr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Visualising ionic screening in perovskite solar cells: a bumpy ride along the J–V curve

Frank Nüesch

The J–V bump and hysteresis in perovskite solar cells are studied combining measurement and simulation, linking them to spatial collection efficiency changes from ionic charge accumulation, as visualised in external quantum efficiency (EQE) spectra. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Hydrophobization of silver nanoparticles through surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization

Heinrich Hofmann, Frank Nüesch, Jose Enrico Quijano Quinsaat

This work describes the synthesis of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)-coated Ag@SiO2 core-shell particles by conducting a Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (SI-ATRP). Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were first prepared by the polyol synth ...

RSC Publishing2016

Physical vapour deposition of cyanine salts and their first application in organic electronic devices

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Antonia Neels, Donatas Gesevicius

A symmetrical trimethine indocyanine dye chromophore was modified with the bistriflylimide anion to study the changes in Coulomb interactions, thermal stability and the volatility of the organic salt. The bulky bistriflylimide anion minimizes electrostatic ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Magnetic field effects on the conductivity of organic bipolar and unipolar devices at room temperature

Frank Nüesch, Libero Zuppiroli

Magnetic field effects on the conductivity of different types of organic devices: undoped and dye doped aluminium (III) 8-hydroxyquinoline (Alq3)-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), electrononly Alq3-based diodes, and a hole-only N,N'-diphenyl-N,N ...

Elsevier2010