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Enhancing Specific Energy and Cycling Stability of High-temperature Na-zncl2 Batteries with Foam-based Electrodes

Sodium-zinc chloride (Na-ZnCl2) batteries offer a sustainable alternative to sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries but face challenges with low specific energy and cycle life. This study evaluates two electrode designs: conventional particle-based Zn ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Local market-aware optimal allocation of energy storage systems considering price fairness in power distribution networks

Mario Paolone, Matthieu Benoit C. Jacobs, Pål Forr Austnes, Lu Wang

The increasing integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within power distribution grids introduces uncertainties that can result in control and operation issues such as line congestions, reduced voltage quality and increased grid imbalance cost. ...

Elsevier BV2025

Encapsulation strategies for mechanical impact and damp heat reliability improvement of lightweight photovoltaic modules towards vehicle-integrated applications

Fabiana Lisco

Lightweight modules are essential for next-generation vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) applications, such as solar-powered cars, allowing integration of solar cells beyond the roof, and on the hood, boot and body panels, and thereby extending the dri ...

Elsevier2024

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleation and phase transition in halide perovskites

Paramvir Ahlawat

Perovskite solar cells have emerged as the most promising cheaper photovoltaic technology. Besides solar cells, halide perovskites have a wide range of applications due to their remarkable optoelectronic properties. Starting from 3.8% in 2009, solar to the ...

EPFL2022

Cation assisted binding and cleavage of dinitrogen by uranium complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Nadir Jori

The role of alkali promoters in N-2 cleavage by metal complexes remains poorly understood despite its relevance to the industrial production of ammonia from N-2. Here we report a series of alkali bound-oxo-bridged diuranium(iii) complexes that provide a un ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Domestic hot water optimizing potential in existing or renovated multifamily residential buildings

Flourentzos Flourentzou, Joshua Pereira

In a Swiss case study of the ReCO2st research project, hot water optimization demonstrated a high potential for energy savings with low investment costs. The optimization started with the end user to reduce first hot water consumption. Energy-efficient sho ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Dopant-Free Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Sihua Zhong

Herein, challenges in the fabrication of full dopant-free bifacial silicon solar cells are discussed and efficient devices utilizing a MoO3/ indium tin oxide (ITO)/Ag hole-selective contact and ZnO/LiFx/Al electron-selective contacts with up to 79% short-c ...

2021

NiCuCoS3 chalcogenide as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Herein, a newly developed non-noble metal water splitting catalyst based on NiCuCoS3 was reported. Water splitting catalysts are largely developed with noble-based transition metals to lower the energy requirement for the overall water splitting reactions. ...

ELSEVIER2021

Catalytic hydrocracking of synthetic polymers into grid-compatible gas streams

Paul Joseph Dyson, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Kun-Han Lin, Reza Zamani

The use of methane as one of the cleanest energy sources has attracted significant public awareness, and methane production processes with less environmental impact than fracking are receiving considerable attention. Catalytic hydrocracking of plastic mate ...

2021

Mitigating the impact of distributed PV in a low-voltage grid using electricity tariffs

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Lionel Benjamin Bloch

A high share of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation in low-voltage networks may lead to over-voltage, and line/transformer overloading. To mitigate these issues, we investigate how advanced electricity tariffs could ensure safe grid operation while en ...

2020

An Efficient Approach to Fabricate Air-Stable Perovskite Solar Cells via Addition of a Self-Polymerizing Ionic Liquid

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Zhangjun Huang, Nikita Drigo, Florian Berczy

Despite the excellent photovoltaic properties achieved by perovskite solar cells at the laboratory scale, hybrid perovskites decompose in the presence of air, especially at high temperatures and in humid environments. Consequently, high-efficiency perovski ...

Wiley2020

The Synergism of DMSO and Diethyl Ether for Highly Reproducible and Efficient MA(0.5)FA(0.5)PbI(3)Perovskite Solar Cells

Paolo Francioli, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Yonghui Lee, Keith Gregory Brooks, Florian Berczy, Alexandre Vincent Laurent Chenu

Composition and film quality of perovskite are crucial for the further improvement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), including efficiency, reproducibility, and stability. Here, it is demonstrated that by simply mixing 50% of formamidinium (FA(+)) into meth ...

2020

Imaging Catalysis: Operando Investigation of the CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction Dynamics by Means of Infrared Thermography

Andreas Züttel, Emad Oveisi, Kun Zhao, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Emanuele Moioli

Infrared thermography is a powerful tool to investigate the dynamic evolution of temperature in chemical reactions. The CO2 hydrogenation reaction is an ideal model reaction to assess the presented technique due to its high exothermicity. Various dynamic e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

RbF post deposition treatment for narrow bandgap Cu(In, Ga)Se-2 solar cells

Fan Fu

Multi-junction solar cells are known to have a considerably increased efficiency potential over their typical single junction counterparts. In order to produce low cost and lightweight multi-junction devices, the availability of suitable narrow (< 1.1 eV) ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicolas Georg Hörmann

We discuss grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments. Water is represented using implicit solvation, here via the self-c ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

A Precious Catalyst: Rhodium-Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation in Water

Gabor Laurenczy, Cornel Fink

The performance of rhodium complex [Cp*Rh(bis(pyrazol-1-yl)methane)Cl]Cl was evaluated for formic acid dehydrogenation in aqueous solution. Solid-state X-ray diffraction helped to confirm the catalyst structure. Multinuclear NMR spectroscopy was employed t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

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

Interfacial Engineering of Metal Oxides for Highly Stable Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Kazuteru Nonomura, Anna Morales Melgares

Oxides employed in halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have already demonstrated to deliver enhanced stability, low cost, and the ease of fabrication required for the commercialization of the technology. The most stable PSCs configuration, the carbon-base ...

WILEY2018