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During coupling with carbon dioxide reduction reactions (CO2RR), plastic reforming as an effective alternative anodic reaction to replace oxygen evolution reaction (OER), offers dual benefits of reducing energy consumption and producing valuable chemicals. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Phase-stable indium sulfide achieves an energy conversion efficiency of 14.3% for solar-assisted carbon dioxide reduction to formate

Michael Graetzel, Jingshan Luo, Jing Gao, Jun Li

Tremendous efforts have been made in developing highly selective catalysts for electrochemical CO 2 conversion to formate. However, the rapid deactivation resulting from structural reconstruction and phase transition poses considerable challenges to the sy ...

Cell Press2024

Identification and Mitigation of Degradation Mechanisms Induced by Heat and Light in NiOx-based Perovskite Solar Cells

Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer an attractive solution to increase the efficiency of PV panels via perovskite/silicon tandems thanks to their potential cost-effectiveness and high efficiency. In inverted PSC architecture (p-i-n), commonly used hole con ...

EPFL2024

Renewable energy integration and waste heat valorization in aluminum remelting for co-producing kerosene and methanol

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The aluminium sector relies on natural gas for the conversion of recycled scrap into new feedstock, which results in substantial atmospheric emissions. Hydric resources are also impacted, as they serve as heat sinks for the waste heat generated during the ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

Emergent CuWO4 Photoanodes for Solar Fuel Production: Recent Progress and Perspectives

Jinhyun Kim

Solar fuel production using a photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell is considered as an effective solution to address the climate change caused by CO2 emissions, as well as the ever-growing global demand for energy. Like all other solar energy utilization techno ...

2023

Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Zaiwei Wang, Mingyang Wei

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) consisting of interfacial two- and three-dimensional heterostructures that incorporate ammonium ligand intercalation have enabled rapid progress toward the goal of uniting performance with stability. However, as the field cont ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Recent Advances in MOF-Based Adsorbents for Dye Removal from the Aquatic Environment

Mehrdad Asgari, Vikram Vinayak Karve

The adsorptive removal of dyes from industrial wastewater using commercially available adsorbents is not significantly efficient. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer outstanding properties which can boost the separation performance over current commercia ...

MDPI2022

High Aspect Ratio Au Microflakes via Gap-Assisted Synthesis

Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi

Ultrathin and extra-large single-crystalline Au microflakes (Au MFs) have a huge potential in applications ranging from nanophotonics to catalysis. Yet, wet chemical synthesis approaches cannot access this size range due to the proportionality between grow ...

2022

Cyclopentadiene-Based Hole-Transport Material for Cost-Reduced Stabilized Perovskite Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiencies Over 23%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hongwei Zhu, Thomas Paul Baumeler

Hole transport materials (HTM) are an important component in perovskite solar cells (PSC). Despite a multitude of HTMs developed in recent years, only few of them lead to solar cells with efficiencies over 20%. Therefore, it is still a challenge to develop ...

2021

Methylamine Gas Treatment Affords Improving Semitransparency, Efficiency, and Stability of CH3NH3PbBr3-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Hongwei Zhu

High bandgap semitransparent solar cells based on CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskites are attractive for building integration, tandem cells, and electrochemical applications. The lack of control of the CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite growth limit the exploitation of CH3NH3PbBr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

A perturb e d Port-Hamiltonian approach for the stabilization of homogeneous reaction systems via the control of vessel extents

Dominique Bonvin

The paper proposes a tracking-error passivity-based control scheme for the asymptotic stabilization of homogeneous reaction systems. The approach uses the concept of vessel extents in the Port-Hamiltonian (PH) framework. Concretely, the extent-based repres ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Innovative Renewable Technology Integration for Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings within the Re-COGNITION Project

Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani

With the 2010/31/EU directive, all new buildings shall be nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB) from 2020 onward, with the aim of strongly reducing the energy consumption related to the building sector. To achieve this goal, it is not sufficient to focus on ...

MDPI2021

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Wendy Lee Queen, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Mehrdad Asgari, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Jian Hao

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021

FeO-based nanostructures and nanohybrids for photoelectrochemical water splitting

Kevin Sivula

The need to satisfy the growing global population's enormous energy demands is a major challenge for modern societies. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting (WS) is seen as a leading strategy for producing an extremely promising renewable store of ene ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Do energy performance certificates allow reliable predictions of actual energy consumption and savings? Learning from the Swiss national database

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Stefano Cozza

The thermal performance gap in buildings is defined as the difference between the theoretical and the actual energy consumption for heating, and is known to undermine energy retrofit strategies and policies. This study examines the performance gap in retro ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

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