Publications related to Excited State Dynamics of Thiophene and Bithiophene: New Insights into Theoretically Challenging Systems

Stabilization versus competing de-metalation, trans-metalation and (cyclo)-dehydrogenation of Pd porphyrins at a copper surface

Metal-porphyrins are studied intensively due their potential applications, deriving from the variety of electronic and chemical properties, tunable by selecting metal centers and functional groups. Metalation, de- and trans-metalation processes are fundame ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Resonant Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of a Single-Molecule Kondo System

Jiri Dolezal

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) under ultrahigh vacuum and cryogenic conditions enables exploration of the relations between the adsorption geometry, electronic state, and vibrational fingerprints of individual molecules. TERS capability of reflecti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Data-Driven Discovery of Organic Electronic Materials Enabled by Hybrid Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Sergio Vela Llausi, Jacob Terence Blaskovits, Rubén Laplaza Solanas

The high-throughput exploration and screening of molecules for organic electronics involves either a 'top-down' curation and mining of existing repositories, or a 'bottom-up' assembly of user-defined fragments based on known synthetic templates. Both are t ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

Abhishek Grewal

This thesis investigates novel single-molecule luminescence phenomena at their inherent, sub-molecular length scale. The microscopic understanding of luminescence processes will be crucial for the continued improvement of organic optoelectronic and semicon ...

EPFL2022

Amine Functionalization in Porous Adsorbents for Carbon Capture and Conversion

Anita Justin

Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline porous materials with exceptionally high surface area, chemical tunability and stability. Due to alarming CO2 emission and global concern, research is focused on developing porous materials like MO ...

EPFL2022

In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy of NOx Reduction Catalysts: A Laboratory Exercise for In-Person and Virtual Learning

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy and catalysis represent two of the most practically relevant topics in chemistry, but they are normally taught in separate contexts at the undergraduate level. Although IR spectroscopy is introduced to students as a tool for orga ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Magnetism and metal-organic self-assembly of rare-earth atoms on decoupling layers

Sébastien Reynaud

This thesis presents investigations of magnetic and structural properties of two dimensional metal-organic frameworks and of single atoms, both adsorbed on decoupling layers grown on metal surfaces, with focus on rare earth elements. We first report on a ...

EPFL2022

Electron probing of oxygen-evolving oxide catalysts

Tzu-Hsien Shen

Water splitting is one of the cleanest ways to store energy. The production of hydrogen and oxygen gases can be utilized in fuel cells to generate electricity, power, and heat. In the water splitting process, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), taking pla ...

EPFL2022

Naphthalenediimide/Formamidinium-Based Low-Dimensional Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Vincent Henri Guillaume Dufoulon, Marko Mladenovic, Dominik Józef Kubicki, David Lyndon Emsley, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jovana Milic, George Cameron Fish, Marco Alejandro Ruiz Preciado, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Aditya Mishra, Thomas Schneeberger

Low-dimensional hybrid perovskites have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Although these materials have already demonstrated enhanced stability as compared to their three-dimensional perovskite analogues, their functionality h ...

2021

In situ nanoscale studies of copper-based catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction

Karla Banjac

The urgency of climate change demands the simultaneous removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the transition to renewable energy sources. This aim is realizable through electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), which is a promising ro ...

EPFL2021

Multiscale Modeling Strategy of 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks Confined at an Air-Water Interface

Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero

Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) have attracted attention as versatile active materials in many applications. Recent advances have demonstrated the synthesis of monolayer 2D COF via an air-water interface. However, the interfacial 2D p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

A new characterization approach to study the mechanical behavior of silicon nanowires

Yusuf Leblebici, Zuhal Tasdemir, Mustafa Yilmaz, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani

This work proposes a new approach to characterize the mechanical properties of nanowires based on a combination of nanomechanical measurements and models. Silicon nanowires with a critical dimension of 90 nm and a length of 8 mu m obtained through a monoli ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Valorization of biomass derivatives through the conversion of phenol over silica-supported Mo-Re oxide catalysts

Ricardo Javier Serpell Carriquiry

Liquid-phase hydrodeoxygenation of phenol over silica-supported MoOx-ReOx catalysts was investigated at 300 degrees C and 5 MPa of H-2. Mixed-oxides catalysts with similar surface metal density (2.3 atoms of metal per nm(2) of SiO2) but different relative ...

2020

Improving visible light photocatalytic inactivation of E. coli by inducing highly efficient radical pathways through peroxymonosulfate activation using 3-D, surface-enhanced, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) aerogels

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Giannakis, Minoo Karbasi

In this work, we synthesized highly porous reduced graphene oxide foams, presenting augmented antibacterial activity in presence/absence of peroxymonosulfate (PMS). To date, this is the first investigation of photocatalytic PMS disinfection by 3D-rGO mater ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Ultrafast Photoelectron and Optical Spectroscopies of Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems in Solution

Luca Longetti

Investigating molecular excitations with femtosecond time resolution is of pivotal importance to understand the out-of-equilibrium processes taking place in molecular systems upon light absorption. The photochemistry of solvated species is heavily determin ...

EPFL2020

Ultra-broadband time-resolved THz spectroscopy of perovskites and nanomaterials

Andrés Burgos Caminal

The fundamental study of charge carrier dynamics has been shown to be of great interest for optoelectronics, paving the way forward for future developments. Often, some of the key processes that determine the photophysics of a material occur on very short ...

EPFL2020

Formamidinium-Based Dion-Jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites: Structural Complexity and Optoelectronic Properties

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Amita Ummadisingu, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Marko Mladenovic, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Paramvir Ahlawat, Brian Irving Carlsen, Yang Li, Jovana Milic, Yang Li, Algirdas Ducinskas

Layered hybrid perovskites have emerged as a promising alternative to stabilizing hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials, which are predominantly based on Ruddlesden-Popper structures. Formamidinium (FA)-based Dion-Jacobson perovskite analogs are de ...

2020

From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule

Christoph Bostedt

A predictive understanding of soft x-ray near-edge absorption spectra of small molecules is an enduring theoretical challenge and of current interest for x-ray probes of molecular dynamics. We report the experimental absorption spectrum for the electron sp ...

IOP Publishing2020

Molecular Engineering of Electrode Surfaces for Electrocatalysis

Patrick Eduard Alexa

Electrocatalysts play an important part on the route towards environmental friendly energy sources. They support modern technologies like fuel cells to move further away from the utilization of fossil fuels and the resulting CO2 emission into our atmospher ...

EPFL2020

2-D assembly of supramolecular nanoarchitectures on Mg(0001)

Klaus Kern, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Bart Willem Stel, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Daniel Eduardo Hurtado Salinas

In this work, a Mg(0001) single crystal is used as a novel template to grow 2D supramolecular nano-architectures. By using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and high-resolution X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HR-XPS), the formation of either a homo-mo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019