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DFT-metadynamics insights on the origin of the oxygen evolution kinetics at the (100)-WSe2 surface

Water oxidation or oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical cells is considered to be a major bottleneck in the way of hydrogen production by electro-synthesis, mainly due to a sluggish kinetics that characterizes the OER steps. Layered transitio ...

2025

Modeling, design and economics of PEC devices

Alexandre Dominique M. Cattry

Photo-electrochemical (PEC) devices allow for converting solar energy into chemical energy and for the production of energetically dense solar fuels. Light absorption, charge separation and transport, electrochemical reactions, and ionic transport are requ ...

EPFL2024

Fuel cell energy generation system

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Xinyi Wei

An energy production system (100) comprising a fuel cell (102), a combustion unit (103) connected to a flue gas outlet (108) of the fuel cell, the combustion unit configured for combustion of oxidizable components in flue gas output by the fuel cell, the c ...

2024

Selective Growth of van der Waals Heterostructures Enabled by Electron-Beam Irradiation

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha

Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHSs) enable the fabricationof complex electronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) materials.Ideally, these vdWHSs should be fabricated in a scalable and repeatableway and only in the specific areas of the substrate t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Critical analysis of decision variables for high-throughput experimentation (HTE) with perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, François Maréchal, Naveen Bhati

Perovskite solar cells are among the most dominant emerging PV technologies which have shown unparallel improvement in power conversion efficiency in just over a decade. Long charge carrier diffusion lengths and lifetimes, high absorption coefficients, ban ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Radical polymeric p-doping and grain modulation for stable, efficient perovskite solar modules

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Yuhang Liu, Brian Irving Carlsen

High-quality perovskite light harvesters and robust organic hole extraction layers are essential for achieving high-performing perovskite solar cells (PSCs). We introduce a phosphonic acid???functionalized fullerene derivative in mixed-cation perovskites a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Highly Ordered and Thermally Stable FeRh Cluster Superlattice on Graphene for Low-Temperature Catalytic CO Oxidation

Harald Brune, Jean-Guillaume De Groot, Hao Yin

We report on bimetallic FeRh clusters with a narrow size-distribution grown on graphene on Ir(111) as a carbon-supported model catalyst to promote low-temperature catalytic CO oxidation. By combining scanning tunneling microscopy with catalytic performance ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Visible-light driven water oxidation and oxygen production at soft interfaces

Hubert Girault, Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano, Jorge Gustavo Uranga, Julieta Soledad Riva

The visible light driven water oxidation reaction (WOR) by the organic electron acceptor 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyano-quinodimethane (TCNQF(4)) was studied at the water|butyronitrile interface. The WOR was performed at neutral pH, and without any ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Hole transport material, synthesis thereof, and solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu

The organic small molecule 4,4',4",4"'-(5,5-dimethoxycyclopenta-1,3-diene-1,2,3,4-tetrayl)tetrakis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyhenyl)aniline (CPDA 1), shows electrochemical properties very close to spiro-OMeTAD indicating a high compatibility with PSC systems for its ...

2022

Second Harmonic Scattering Reveals Ion-Specific Effects at the SiO2 and TiO2 Nanoparticle/Aqueous Interface

Arianna Marchioro, Marie Bischoff

Ion-specific effects play a crucial role in controlling the stability of colloidal systems and regulating interfacial processes. Although mechanistic pictures have been developed to explain the electrostatic structure of solid/water colloidal interfaces, i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Gas Transport across Carbon Nitride Nanopores: A Comparison of van der Waals Functionals against the Random-Phase Approximation

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Nicola Colonna

C2N is an ordered two-dimensional carbon nitride with a high density (1.7 x 10 14 cm(-2)) of 3.1 angstrom-sized nanopores, making it promising for highflux gas sieving for energy-efficient He and H-2 purification. Herein, we discuss the accurate calculatio ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Metal Soap Membranes for Gas Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Jian Hao

Metal soaps or metal alkanoates are metal-organic complexes held together with metal cations and the functional groups of hydrocarbon chains. They can be synthesized at a high yield by simply mixing the metal and organic sources, forming crystalline framew ...

2020

Low‐Temperature Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition of Allenes with Arenes for the Synthesis of Diene Ligands

Rosario Scopelliti, Jérôme Waser, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Matthew Wodrich, Durga Prasada Rao Hari, Guillaume Dominique Pisella

The intramolecular [4+2] cycloaddition between arenes and allenes first reported by Himbert gives rapid access to rigid polycyclic scaffolds. Herein, we report a one‐pot oxyalkynylation/cycloaddition reaction proceeding under mild conditions (23–90 °C) and ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020