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Developing closed-loop recyclable thermosets and understanding their structure-property relationships are essential steps in advancing a circular materials economy. Here, we present a vinylogous urethane (VU) thermoset with closed-loop recyclability, synth ...

American Chemical Society2025

Development and Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Iono-organogels for Efficient Impact Mitigation

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Vincent Marc Varanges, Vijay Kumar Rana

Dissipative materials are essential for mitigating impact in various automotive, aerospace, and sports equipment applications. This study investigates the efficiency of a novel hybrid iono-organogel in dissipating and absorbing impact energies. The gel con ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Optimizing Atomic Layer Deposition Processes with Nanowire-Assisted TEM Analysis

Ivo Utke, Johann Michler, Xavier Maeder

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is one of the premier methods to synthesize ultra-thin materials on complex surfaces. The technique allows for precise control of the thickness down to single atomic layers, while at the same time providing uniform coverage ev ...

Wiley2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Philippe Benjamin Green, Jari Leemans, Mark Adrian Newton, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Plasma-Assisted Hybrid Vapour Deposition Technology for Thin Film Fabrication

Caroline Hain

Continuous development of thin film deposition technologies is essential for the fabrication of films that meet the specific requirements of their target applications and working conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of accessible a ...

EPFL2023

One-step fabrication of high refractive index inorganic nanostructures

Vaida Auzelyte

Direct printing of spin-on functional films is probably the most efficient method to develop low-cost novel photonic nanodevices, such as diffraction gratings, planar waveguides, nano- lasers, and antireflective coatings. For these applications high refrac ...

2023

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Di Cui

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis of metal oxide-overcoated carbon materials by liquid phase ALD and their applications in catalysis

Farzaneh Talebkeikhah

Coating nano particles and other substrates for efficiency enhancement, protection and obtaining new atomic structures is a widespread research topic in catalysis and material synthesis. Thus far, different approaches of coating, ranging from simplest to s ...

EPFL2023

An investigation on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured laser shock peened AlSi7Mg alloy surfaces

Roland Logé, Navid Sohrabi, Milad Hamidi Nasab, Seyed Amirmohammad Jamili

In the recent years, laser powder bed fusion of aluminum alloys has attracted extensive attention due to their capacious application in the biomedical, aerospace, and other industrial sectors. This is due to the combined capabilities of the laser powder be ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

III-V Nitride Semiconductors Deposited At Low Temperature For Photovoltaic Applications

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

This thesis reports on the study and use of low temperature processes for the deposition of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) thin films in order to alleviate some of the present drawbacks of its monolitic deposition on silicon for photovoltaic applications. ...

EPFL2023

Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Simon Nussbaum, Rebekah Anne Wells, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Hannah Elizabeth Johnson, Emeline Cécile Rideau, Benjamin Goldman, Elizaveta Potapova Mensi

Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Structural and photophysical investigation of single-source evaporation of CsFAPbI(3) and FAPbI(3) perovskite thin films

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel

Thermal vacuum deposition is a stimulating technique for upscaling perovskite solar cells. However, the operational complexity of multisource vapor deposition (MSVD) and achieving stoichiometric perovskite layers may impede its implementation. The single-s ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Jun Li, Meng Xia

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Molybdenum disulphide nanoporous membranes as nanofluidic platforms - large-area engineering and study

Michal Daniel Macha

The work demonstrated in this thesis represent the path towards developing the large-scale fabrication of two-dimensional nanoporous membrane devices and use thereof as platforms to study nanoscale physics of water and ion flow through confined channels. M ...

EPFL2022

Investigation in Crystal Growth/Morphology and Interface Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells by Different Deposition Methods

Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel

A new and promising technology has emerged to compete with traditional silicon photovoltaic semiconductors. The low material and processing costs and high-power conversion efficiencies of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites make these a promising te ...

EPFL2022

Colloidal transport and deposition through dense vegetation

David Andrew Barry, Li Chen

The effectiveness of submerged synthetic aquatic vegetation on removal of colloids from flowing water was investigated to explore retention of particulate nonpoint source pollutants in aquatic systems. In colloid transport experiments, the deposition rate ...

Elsevier2022

'Green' Cr(III)-based electrodeposition of stainless steel-like FeCrNi: synthesis, mechanisms, material properties of films and micro-nanocomponents for bio-medical applications

Enrico Bertero

The electrodeposition (ED) of stainless steel (SS) -like FeCrNi alloys for miniaturised devices is appealing for bio-medicine as it would allow combining excellent material properties (e.g. corrosion resistance, hardness, bio-compatibility) at low-cost. Ho ...

EPFL2020

Heterogeneous catalyst preparation by liquid-phase atomic layer deposition

Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier

Heterogeneous catalyst preparation has been performed for close to a century but has been rapidly evolving spurred by the evolution in synthetic techniques and growing needs in energy, chemicals and materials. An increasing number of catalyst synthesis str ...

EPFL2020

Photocatalytic Performance of CuxO/TiO2 Deposited by HiPIMS on Polyester under Visible Light LEDs: Oxidants, Ions Effect, and Reactive Oxygen Species Investigation

Sami Rtimi

In the present study, we propose a new photocatalytic interface prepared by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS), and investigated for the degradation of Reactive Green 12 (RG12) as target contaminant under visible light light-emitting diodes ( ...

2019

Photocatalytic indoor/outdoor air treatment and bacterial inactivation on CuxO/TiO2 prepared by HiPIMS on polyester cloth under low intensity visible light

Sami Rtimi

In this study, photoactive CuxO/TiO2 coatings were prepared using magnetron sputtering operated at different powers and modes (Direct-current magnetron sputtering and High Power Impulse magnetron sputtering). Indoor/outdoor air pollutions (Volatile Organic ...

2019