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Challenges towards Economic Fuel Generation from Renewable Ellectricity: The Heed for Efficient Electro-Catalysis

Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Wiktor Stefan Bourée

Utilizing renewable sources of energy is very attractive to provide the growing population on earth in the future but demands the development of efficient storage to mitigate their intermittent nature. Chemical storage, with energy stored in the bonds of c ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2015

Molecular Strategies for Morphology Control in Semiconducting Polymers for Optoelectronics

Kevin Sivula, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan

Solution-processable semiconducting polymers have been explored over the last decades for their potential applications in inexpensively fabricated transistors, diodes and photovoltaic cells. However, a remaining challenge in the field is to control the sol ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2017

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

MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4 for enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalysis toward simultaneous reduction of Cr(VI) and oxidation of bisphenol A in aqueous media

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Heterostructured composites with an excellent photocatalytic activity have attracted increasing attention because of their great application in environmental remediation. Herein, a MIL-101(Fe)/g-C3N4 heterojunction was synthesized via in-situ growth of MIL ...

ELSEVIER2020

Correlating long-lived photogenerated hole populations with photocurrent densities in hematite water oxidation photoanodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula

Photogenerated charge carrier dynamics are investigated as a function of applied bias in a variety of different hematite photoanodes for solar water oxidation. Transient absorption spectroscopy is used to probe the photogenerated holes, while transient pho ...

2012

Photoelectrochemical Degradation and Regeneration of Ca2fe2o5 Photocathodes

Kevin Sivula, Maria Isabel Diez Garcia, Benjamin Goldman

Ca2Fe2O5 is a p-type semiconductor with properties suitable for potential application as a photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting. However, it suffers from poor stability under working conditions that is still not completely understood. In th ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Templating Sol-Gel Hematite Films with Sacrificial Copper Oxide: Enhancing Photoanode Performance with Nanostructure and Oxygen Vacancies

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Nanostructuring hematite films is a critical step for enhancing photoelectrochemical performance by circumventing the intrinsic limitations on minority carrier transport. Herein, we present a novel sol-gel approach that affords nanostructured hematite film ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

A Gibeon meteorite yields a high-performance water oxidation electrocatalyst

Paul Joseph Dyson, Arnaud Magrez, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Aswin Gopakumar, Wiktor Stefan Bourée

Examining the electrocatalytic performance of naturally-occurring metallic minerals is of interest for energy conversion applications given their unique atomic composition and formation history. Herein, we report the electrocatalytic function of an iron-ba ...

2016

A hybrid bulk-heterojunction photoanode for direct solar-to-chemical conversion dagger

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

Organic semiconductors (OSs) are emerging candidates as light-harvesting materials in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for direct solar-to-chemical conversion. Despite significant recent progress with OS-based photocathodes, the development of efficient an ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Inducing porosity in xylose-derived FeNC electrocatalysts for alkaline oxygen reduction

Kevin Sivula

Iron-nitrogen-carbon (FeNC) electrocatalysts are emerging as a low-cost alternative to Pt-based materials for electrochemical oxygen reduction at the cathode of alkaline exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells. The valorisation of waste biomass is a sustaina ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Defect Mitigation of Solution-Processed 2D WSe2 Nanoflakes for Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Melissa Catherine Olson

Few-atomic-layer nanoflakes of liquid-phase exfoliated semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold promise for large-area, high-performance, low-cost solar energy conversion, but their performance is limited by recombination at defect sites ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Identifying Reactive Sites and Surface Traps in Chalcopyrite Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Mounir Driss Mensi, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia

Gathering information on the atomic nature of reactive sites and trap states is key to fine tuning catalysis and suppressing deleterious surface voltage losses in photoelectrochemical technologies. Here, spectroelectrochemical and computational methods wer ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Enhancing the Performance of a Robust Sol-Gel-Processed p-Type Delafossite CuFeO2 Photocathode for Solar Water Reduction

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Delafossite CuFeO2 is a promising material for solar hydrogen production, but is limited by poor photocurrent. Strategies are demonstrated herein to improve the performance of CuFeO2 electrodes prepared directly on transparent conductive substrates by usin ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2015

Unexpected Pathway in Organic Semiconductor Nanoparticle Formation

Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Arnau Bertran Inglada, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Colin Jeanguenat, Connor Robert Firth

Organic semiconductor (OSC) nanoparticles (NPs) are promising for numerous applications including greener organic photovoltaics and heterogeneous photocatalysts for solar H2 production. Single component or mixed bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) OSC NPs are common ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Effects of Molecular Weight on Microstructure and Carrier Transport in a Semicrystalline Poly(thieno)thiophene

Kevin Sivula, Andrea Gasperini

The ultimate control over chain self-assembly is key to unravel and optimize the relationship between film microstructure and charge carrier mobility in solution processable conjugated polymer semiconductors. Here we employ preparatory size exclusion chrom ...

American Chemical Society2013

Solar-to-Chemical Energy Conversion with Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells

Kevin Sivula

Efficiently and inexpensively converting solar energy into chemical fuels is an important goal towards a sustainable energy economy. An integrated tandem cell approach could reasonably convert over 20% of the sun's energy directly into chemical fuels like ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2013

Low-temperature thermite reaction to form oxygen vacancies in metal-oxide semiconductors: A case study of photoelectrochemical cells

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Likai Zheng

The formation of oxygen vacancies (Vö) in n-type semiconductors is a key strategy for improving the performance of metal-oxide-based photoanodes. Whereas Vö has traditionally been created by gas- or liquid-phase treatments, here we report a solid-state red ...

2025

CuInGaS2 photocathodes treated with SbX3 (X = Cl, I): the effect of the halide on solar water splitting performance

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot, Melissa Catherine Olson, Pauline Bornoz, Wiktor Stefan Bourée

The realization of photoelectrochemical tandem cells for efficient solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion is currently impeded by the lack of inexpensive, stable, and efficient photocathodes. The family of sulfide chalcopyrites (CuInxGa1-xS2) has recently dem ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Controlling conjugated polymer morphology and charge carrier transport with a flexible-linker approach

Sébastien Jacky Daniel Bivaud, Kevin Sivula, Andrea Gasperini

The Stille-coupling polymerization of a short conjugated polymer with an aliphatic linker was used to demonstrate a prototype in a new class of polymer semiconductors wherein the conjugation segment length and the length of the entire chain can be independ ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Efficient Cu2O Photocathodes for Aqueous Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate and Syngas

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Mounir Driss Mensi, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Jing Gao, Linfeng Pan, Jun Li, Meng Xia

Photoelectrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (PEC-CO2R) represents a promising approach for producing renewable fuels and chemicals using solar energy. However, attaining even modest solar-to-fuel (STF) conversion efficiency often necessitates the use of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023