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Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond as a Corrosion-Resistant Anode for Water Oxidation via Si Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan, Florian Le Formal

Due to its high sensitivity to corrosion, the use of Si in direct photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting systems that convert solar energy into chemical fuels has been greatly limited. Therefore, the development of low-cost materials resistant to corro ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Simon Nussbaum, Rebekah Anne Wells, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Hannah Elizabeth Johnson, Emeline Cécile Rideau, Benjamin Goldman, Elizaveta Potapova Mensi

Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Effect of bulky groups in ruthenium heteroleptic sensitizers on dye sensitized solar cell performance

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum

Two novel heteroleptic ruthenium sensitizers, TT204 and TT205, containing bulky substituents at the 4,4-positions of the ancillary 2,2-bipyridine ligand, were synthesized and characterized. They exhibit absorption maxima in the visible region at 520-530 nm ...

2012

Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction at a Direct CuInGaS2/Electrolyte Junction

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia, Simon Nussbaum

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) CO2 reduction has received considerable attention given the inherent sustainability and simplicity of directly converting solar energy into carbonbased chemical fuels. However, complex photocathode architectures with protecting l ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Bulk Heterojunction Organic Semiconductor Photoanodes: Tuning Energy Levels to Optimize Electron Injection

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Arvindh Sekar, Han-Hee Cho, Juan Manuel Moreno Naranjo, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

The use of a bulk heterojunction of organic semiconductors to drive photoelectrochemical water splitting is an emerging trend; however, the optimum energy levels of the donor and acceptor have not been established for photoanode operation with respect to e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Supramolecular interactions using β-cyclodextrin in controlling perovskite solar cell performance

Parnian Ferdowsi, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Jiyoun Seo

In the context of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), enhancing device performance often involves adding a small excess of lead iodide (PbI2) to the precursor solution. However, the presence of unreacted PbI2 can lead to accelerated degradation compromising lon ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Robust Electron Transport Layers via In Situ Cross-Linking of Perylene Diimide and Fullerene for Perovskite Solar Cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti

While employing charge transport layers (CTLs) in optoelectronic devices including hybrid perovskite solar cells is essential for high performance, using solution-processed organic semiconductor-based CTLs poses challenges for device fabrication. Cross-lin ...

2019

Organized Mesoporous TiO2 Films Stabilized by Phosphorus: Application for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan

A synthetic protocol was developed for the preparation of thin mesoporous TiO2 films with enhanced thermal stability. This objective was achieved by a modification of the procedure of supramolecular templating by a Pluronic P-123 copolymer by an addition o ...

2010

A hybrid bulk-heterojunction photoanode for direct solar-to-chemical conversion dagger

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Organic semiconductors (OSs) are emerging candidates as light-harvesting materials in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for direct solar-to-chemical conversion. Despite significant recent progress with OS-based photocathodes, the development of efficient an ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells exceeding efficiency 1% at full-sun intensity

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Peter Chen

Colloidal cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots QDs) have been prepared and exploited as inorganic dyes to sensitize a large-band-gap TiO2 layer for QD-sensitized solar cells. The optimized QD-sensitized solar cells exhibited an unprecedented incident photo ...

2008

Graphene-based cathodes for liquid-junction dye sensitized solar cells: Electrocatalytic and mass transport effects

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan

The optimization of mediator/cathode in a dye sensitized solar cell (DSC) requires detailed knowledge about their electrochemical properties. Particularly, the kinetics of mediator's turnover on the cathode and the mass transport of mediator in the electro ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Unexpected Pathway in Organic Semiconductor Nanoparticle Formation

Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Arnau Bertran Inglada, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Colin Jeanguenat, Connor Robert Firth

Organic semiconductor (OSC) nanoparticles (NPs) are promising for numerous applications including greener organic photovoltaics and heterogeneous photocatalysts for solar H2 production. Single component or mixed bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) OSC NPs are common ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Ink-Based CuIn0.3Ga0.7S2 Nanocrystal Thin Films as Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

One of the promising methods to solve the current energyand environmentissues is photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting and CO2 reduction reaction. Chalcopyrite copper indium gallium sulfide (CIGS)and CuIn0.3Ga0.7S2 nanocrystal thinfilms have been cons ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Toward Higher Photovoltage: Effect of Blocking Layer on Cobalt Bipyridine Pyrazole Complexes as Redox Shuttle for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum, Thomas Moehl, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Paul Gratia

Fluorine-doped tin-oxide (FTO) transparent conducting substrates, for use in cobalt bis(bipyridine pyrazole) complex based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), were compared using the conventional TiCl4 treatment with conformal TiO2 blocking layers formed by ...

American Chemical Society2014

Inorganic p-Type Semiconductors: Their Applications and Progress in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells

Jun Ho Yum, Soo-Jin Moon, Peter Chen

Considering the increasing global demand for energy and the harmful ecological impact of conventional energy sources, it is obvious that development of clean and renewable energy is a necessity. Since the Sun is our only external energy source, harnessing ...

MDPI2016

Unsymmetrical extended pi-conjugated zinc phthalocyanine for sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 films

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum

We have designed and synthesized a new unsymmetrical zinc phthalocyanine based on 'push-pull' and extended pi-conjugation concept, PCH008. The new sensitizer was fully characterized by CHN anlysis, UV-Vis., fluorescence spectroscopies and cyclic voltammetr ...

2009

Decoupling Interlayer Spacing and Cation Dipole on Exciton Binding Energy in Layered Halide Perovskites

Rosario Scopelliti, Nicolas Grandjean, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Yeonju Kim, Simon Nussbaum, Han-Hee Cho, Danxuan Chen

Layered halide perovskites (LHPs) are emerging semiconductor materials due to their superior environmental stability compared to that of traditional halide perovskites. While LHPs have tunable optoelectronic properties, quantum and dielectric confinement e ...

2024

Increased light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells with energy relay dyes

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Pascal Comte

Conventional dye-sensitized solar cells have excellent charge collection efficiencies, high open-circuit voltages and good fill factors. However, dye-sensitized solar cells do not completely absorb all of the photons from the visible and near-infrared doma ...

Nature Publishing Group2009

Examining architectures of photoanode-photovoltaic tandem cells for solar water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Florian Le Formal, Maurin Cornuz, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet

Given the limitations of the materials available for photoelectrochemical water splitting, a multiphoton (tandem) approach is required to convert solar energy into hydrogen efficiently and durably. Here we investigate a promising system consisting of a hem ...

Cambridge University Press2010

Establishing Stability in Organic Semiconductor Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Yongpeng Liu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho

As organic semiconductors attract increasing attention to application in the fields of bioelectronics and artificial photosynthesis, understanding the factors that determine their robust operation in direct contact with aqueous electrolytes becomes a criti ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020