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Computational Studies on the Stability of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Halide Lead Perovskites

Perovskite-based solar cells are currently the most rapidly advancing photovoltaic technology but concerns about their long-term stability are still impeding full-scale commercialization. This thesis provides computational insights into some of the stabili ...

EPFL2024

Live-cell imaging powered by computation

Suliana Manley

The proliferation of microscopy methods for live-cell imaging offers many new possibilities for users but can also be challenging to navigate. The prevailing challenge in live-cell fluorescence microscopy is capturing intra-cellular dynamics while preservi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A Combination Technique for Optimal Control Problems Constrained by Random PDEs

Fabio Nobile, Tommaso Vanzan

We present a combination technique based on mixed differences of both spatial approximations and quadrature formulae for the stochastic variables to solve efficiently a class of optimal control problems (OCPs) constrained by random partial differential equ ...

2024

Thermal conductivity of Li 3 PS 4 solid electrolytes with ab initio accuracy

Michele Ceriotti, Federico Grasselli, Davide Tisi, Lorenzo Gigli

The vast amount of computational studies on electrical conduction in solid-state electrolytes is not mirrored by comparable efforts addressing thermal conduction, which has been scarcely investigated despite its relevance to thermal management and (over)he ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Data-Intensive Exploration of the Photoelectrochemical Responses of Main-Group Metal Sulfides

Nicola Colonna

Materials that efficiently promote the thermodynamically uphill water-splitting reaction under solar illumination are essential for generating carbon-free ("green") hydrogen. Mapping out the combinatorial space of potential photocatalysts for this reaction ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Fast in vivo assay of creatine kinase activity in the human brain by P-31 magnetic resonance fingerprinting

Lijing Xin, Mark Stephan Widmaier, Songi Lim, Daniel Wenz

A new and efficient magnetisation transfer P-31 magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MT-P-31-MRF) approach is introduced to measure the creatine kinase metabolic rate kCK

{k}_{\mathrm{CK}}

between phosphocreatine (PCr) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) i ...

WILEY2023

Spatio-Temporal Estimation of Renewable Energy Potential in Built Environments using Big Data

Alina Ursula Rosa Walch

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, governments around the world must shift to renewable energy (RE) to drastically reduce their CO2 emissions within the next 10-30 years. The development of effective strategies for RE integratio ...

EPFL2022

Carrier-selective contacts using metal compounds for crystalline silicon solar cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon

Solar cells rely on the efficient generation of electrons and holes and the subsequent collection of these photoexcited charge carriers at spatially separated electrodes. High wafer quality is now commonplace for crystalline silicon (c-Si) based solar cell ...

WILEY2023

Interfacial engineering for competitive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells production

Natalie Flores Diaz

Renewable energy deployment and implementation of a circular economy will play a crucial role in decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the target from the Paris agreement. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can be designed in various colors and transparency for ...

EPFL2021

Cation optimization for burn-in loss-free perovskite solar devices

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Marius Franckevicius, Olga Syzgantseva

Hybrid lead halide perovskites will potentially lead the future energy scenario if highly efficient cells have long-term stability. Here we combine state-of-the art mixed-cation formulations containing formamidinium (FA) and methylammonium (MA), with optim ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Toward Stable Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics: A Six-Month Outdoor Performance Study in a Hot and Humid Climate

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are emerging as a high-efficiency and prospectively cost-effective solar technology with great promise for deployment at the utility scale. However, despite the remarkable performance progress reported lately, assuring ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Facile One-Pot Assembly of Push-Pull Imines by a Selective C-F Substitution Process in Aryl Fluorides

Shubhajit Das

Herein, we report the synthesis of a series of push-pull imines by considering cyclic diamino substituent at the C-centre and fluoroaryl substituent at the N-centre. This has been achieved by a selective aromatic nucleophilic substitution of different fluo ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

A Blue Photosensitizer Realizing Efficient and Stable Green Solar Cells via Color Tuning by the Electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Peng Wang, Yiming Cao, Yameng Ren, Dan Zhang

Semitransparent dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are appealing as aesthetically pleasing and colorful see-through photovoltaics. Green semitransparent DSCs have been presented, but the best ones rely on green zinc porphyrin photosensitizers and high volat ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2020

Electron-Selective Layers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on TiO2 and SnO2

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan

Titanium dioxide (anatase, rutile) and quasi-amorphous tin dioxide are prepared on F-doped SnO2 in the form of dense thin films, which can serve as electron-selective layers in perovskite solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The present stud ...

2020

Comparison of computational methods for the electrochemical stability window of solid-state electrolyte materials

Aris Marcolongo, Matthieu Gilles Mottet

Superior stability and safety are key promises attributed to all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) containing solid-state electrolyte (SSE) compared to their conventional counterparts utilizing liquid electrolyte. To unleash the full potential of ASSBs, SSE ma ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Experimental and Computational Study on Motor Control and Recovery After Stroke: Toward a Constructive Loop Between Experimental and Virtual Embodied Neuroscience

Auke Ijspeert, Silvestro Micera, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Emanuele Formento, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty

Being able to replicate real experiments with computational simulations is a unique opportunity to refine and validate models with experimental data and redesign the experiments based on simulations. However, since it is technically demanding to model all ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Liquid State and Zombie Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Copper Bipyridine Complexes Functionalized with Alkoxy Groups

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Hui-Seon Kim, Marina Freitag, Yasemin Saygili, Marko Stojanovic

Copper redox mediators can be employed in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) both as liquid electrolytes or as solid state hole transport materials (HTMs). The solid state devices that employ copper complex HTMs can be simply obtained by solvent evaporation ...

2020

Atomistic modeling of the solid-liquid interface of metals and alloys

Edoardo Baldi

Solidification is a phase transformation of utmost importance in material science, for it largely controls materials' microstructure on which a wide range of mechanical properties depends. Almost every human artifact undergoes a transformation that leads t ...

EPFL2020

Structural properties of organometalic halide perovskite and their application in photodetectors

Anastasiia Glushkova

Hybrid organometallic halide perovskites have been intensively investigated in the past years as highly efficient light harvesters for various optoelectronic applications for both sensing and emitting light. However, many open questions remain regarding th ...

EPFL2020

Elucidating the Doping Mechanism in Fluorene-Dithiophene-Based Hole Selective Layer Employing Ultrahydrophobic Ionic Liquid Dopant

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Sanghyun Paek

Perovskite solar cells have set a new milestone in terms of efficiencies in the thin film photovoltaics category. Long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is of paramount importance but remains a challenging task. The lack of perovskite solar cells st ...

2020