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Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Lucie Navratilova

The facile synthesis, solution-processability, and outstanding optoelectronic properties of emerging colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (LHP QDs) makes them ideal candidates for scalable and inexpensive optoelectronic applications, including pho ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Benzodithiophene‐Based Spacers for Layered and Quasi‐Layered Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Liang Yao, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mounir Driss Mensi, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Incorporating extended pi-conjugated organic cations in layered lead halide perovskites is a recent trend promising to merge the fields of organic semiconductors and lead halide perovskites. Herein, we integrate benzodithiophene (BDT) into Ruddlesden–Poppe ...

2021

Surface modification of semiconductor photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells have emerged as promising devices that afford the direct conversion of solar energy into electric power and/or chemical fuels. Apart from the obvious importance of the bulk properties of semiconductor materials employed as ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Insights into the interfacial carrier behaviour of copper ferrite ( CuFe2O4) photoanodes for solar water oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Yongpeng Liu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Designing efficient yet robust photoanodes for water oxidation stands out as a major bottleneck in the realization of a feasible photoelectrochemical tandem cell for solar water splitting. Spinel copper ferrite (CuFe2O4) has been recently reported as a pot ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

A Bottom-Up Approach toward All-Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Cu(In,Ga)S

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Melissa Catherine Olson, Pauline Bornoz, Wiktor Stefan Bourée

The development of solution-processable routes to prepare efficient photoelectrodes for water splitting is highly desirable to reduce manufacturing costs. Recently, sulfide chalcopyrites (Cu(In,Ga)S-2) have attracted attention as photocathodes for hydrogen ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Improving charge collection with delafossite photocathodes: a host–guest CuAlO2/CuFeO2 approach

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mathieu Steven Prévot

p-Type delafossite CuFeO2 has recently been reported as a promising candidate for direct photoelectrochemical solar water reduction in alkaline conditions. However, despite its favorable optical band gap energy and light absorption, this material suffers f ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Artificial Photosynthesis with Semiconductor-Liquid Junctions

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal

Given the urgent need to develop a sustainable, carbon neutral energy storage system on a global scale, intense efforts are currently underway to advance the field of artificial photosynthesis: i.e. solar fuel engineering. In this review we give an overvie ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2015

Taking lanthanides out of isolation: tuning the optical properties of metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Kevin Sivula, Kyriakos Stylianou, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Gloria Capano, Andrzej Gladysiak, Maria Fumanal Quintana, Stavroula Kampouri, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Samantha Lynn Anderson, Davide Tiana

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are increasingly used in applications that rely on the optical and electronic properties of these materials. These applications require a fundamental understanding on how the structure of these materials, and in particular t ...

2020

Defect Mitigation of Solution-Processed 2D WSe2 Nanoflakes for Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Melissa Catherine Olson

Few-atomic-layer nanoflakes of liquid-phase exfoliated semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold promise for large-area, high-performance, low-cost solar energy conversion, but their performance is limited by recombination at defect sites ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Spectroelectrochemical and Chemical Evidence of Surface Passivation at Zinc Ferrite (ZnFe 2 O 4 ) Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Mounir Driss Mensi, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia

Recent advances in low‐cost manufacturing as well as in bulk/interface engineering have positioned zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4, ZFO) in the spotlight as a candidate material for solar water oxidation. However, the severe recombination at the reactive interface r ...

2021

Direct Light-Driven Water Oxidation by a Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymer Photoanode

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Pauline Bornoz

A conjugated polymer known for high stability (poly[benzimidazobenzophenanthroline], coded as BBL) is examined as a photoanode for direct solar water oxidation. In aqueous electrolyte with a sacrificial hole acceptor (SO32-), photoelectrodes show a morphol ...

American Chemical Society2015

Generalized Synthesis to Produce Transparent Thin Films of Ternary Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte

Developing facile approaches to prepare non-light-scattering ternary oxide thin film photoelectrodes is an important goal for solar water splitting tandem cells. Herein, a novel synthesis route is reported that employs ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Solution-Processed Ultrathin SnS2-Pt Nanoplates for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Xiaoyun Yu

Tin disulfide (SnS2) is attracting significant interest because of the abundance of its elements and its excellent optoelectronic properties in part related to its layered structure. In this work, we specify the preparation of ultrathin SnS2 nanoplates (NP ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Amorphous Ternary Charge-Cascade Molecules for Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaics

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Melissa Catherine Olson

Ternary bulk heterojunctions with cascade-type energy-level configurations are of significant interest for further improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells. However, controlling the self-assembly in solution-processed ternary ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Catalyst-Free, Fast, and Tunable Synthesis for Robust Covalent Polymer Network Semiconducting Thin Films

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Arvindh Sekar

2018

Enhancing the Charge Separation in Nanocrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical Application: The Role of Surface Modifications

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) colloidal inks were employed to prepare thin-film photocathodes that served as a model system to interrogate the effect of different surface treatments, viz. CdS, CdSe, and ZnSe buffer layers along with methylviologen (MV) adsorption, on t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

In Situ Electrochemical Oxidation of Cu2S into CuO Nanowires as a Durable and Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Development of cost-effective oxygen evolution catalysts is of capital importance for the deployment of large-scale energy-storage systems based on metal-air batteries and reversible fuel cells. In this direction, a wide range of materials have been explor ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells based on directly adsorbed zinc copper indium sulfide colloids

Nestor Guijarro Carratala

Heavy metal-based quantum dots (QDs) have been demonstrated to behave as efficient sensitizers in QD-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs), as attested by the countless studies and encouraging efficiencies reported so far. However, their intrinsic toxicity has a ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Defect engineered nanostructured LaFeO3 photoanodes for improved activity in solar water oxidation

Xavier Pereira Da Costa, Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Mounir Driss Mensi, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

LaFeO3 (LFO) is recognized as a candidate material for solar water oxidation, but its photoelectrochemical response remains modest and stagnant. With the aim of advancing LFO photoanodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), here, a nanorod array-type e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Autodecomposition Approach for the Low-Temperature Mesostructuring of Nanocrystal Semiconductor Electrodes

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Templating nanocrystals into mesoporous electrodes using an organic porogen typically requires thermal oxidation at >400 degrees C to completely remove the organic material and afford good electronic properties. These oxidation conditions are incompatible ...

American Chemical Society2015