Publications de Pascal Alexander Schouwink

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Tailoring Morphology and Elemental Distribution of Cu-In Nanocrystals via Galvanic Replacement

Emad Oveisi, Raffaella Buonsanti, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Laia Castilla Amorós, Valery Okatenko

The compositional and structural diversity of bimetallic nanocrystals (NCs) provides a superior tunability of their physico-chemical properties, making them attractive for a variety of applications, including sensing and catalysis. Nevertheless, the manipu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions

Aurélien Bornet, Emad Oveisi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Sascha Feldmann, Tejas Deshpande, Zachary Andrew Vanorman

Halide perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Metal doping provides an avenue to boost their performance further, e.g., by enhancing light emission, or to provide additional functionalities, such as nanoscale magne ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Unblocking Ion-occluded Pore Channels in Poly(triazine imide) Framework for Proton Conduction

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Kangning Zhao, Laura Piveteau

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is an ordered graphitic carbon nitride hosting angstrom-scale pores attractive for selective molecular transport. AA'-stacked PTI layers are synthesized by ionothermal route during which ions occupy the framework and occlude the ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Mechanistic Study on Thermally Induced Lattice Stiffening of ZIF-8

Deepu Joseph Babu, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Qi Liu, Jian Hao

The flexibility of the ZIF-8 aperture, which inhibits a molecular cutoff of 3.4 angstrom, can be reduced by rapid heat treatment to obtain CO2-selective membranes. However, the early stages of the structural, morphological, and chemical changes responsible ...

2021

Incorporation of Clathrochelate-Based Metalloligands in Metal-Organic Frameworks by Solvent-Assisted Ligand Exchange

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, José Luis Bila, Ophélie Marie Planes, Pascal Alexander Schouwink

Iron(II) cage complexes with terminal 4-pyridyl groups can be incorporated in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) via solvent-assisted ligand exchange (SALE). Paddle -wheeled MOFs with N,N'-di-4-pyridylnaphthalenete-tracarboxydiimide pillars were used as start ...

2020

Thermodynamic stability screening of IR-photonic processed multication halide perovskite thin films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Natalie Flores Diaz, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Brian Irving Carlsen

We report a material screening study for phase transitions of multication hybrid halide perovskite films. Two hundred sixty-six films processed with flash infrared annealing were optically and structurally characterized. This data was compiled into a datab ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Essential role of oxygen vacancies of Cu-Al and Co-Al spinel oxides in their catalytic activity for the reverse water gas shift reaction

Ursula Röthlisberger, Jeremy Luterbacher, Christophe Jean Baranowski, Oliver Kröcher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Murat Kiliç

CO2 catalytic hydrogenation to CO will likely be an important part of CO2 mitigation and valorization processes. Recently, we have developed materials containing surface-formed Cu-Al spinel that act as active and stable catalysts for this reaction. Here, t ...

2020

Chemically Recyclable, Hydroxycinnamic Acid‐Derived Semi‐Aromatic Polycarbonates

Harm-Anton Klok, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ghezae Tekleab

Polycarbonate polymers find widespread use for a variety of applications. Driven by the need to transition away from fossil‐based resources, there is increasing interest in exploring bio‐based monomers for the synthesis of polycarbonates. One interesting c ...

Wiley2025

On the Accessibility of Higher-n Phases in Formamidinium-based Ruddlesden-popper and Dion-jacobson Layered Hybrid Perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Ghewa Alsabeh, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Lorenzo Agosta, Vladislav Slama

Layered (2D) hybrid perovskites offer a promising alternative for stabilizing halide perovskite materials, with a growing interest in formamidinium (FA(+)) lead iodide derivatives for photovoltaics due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties. While ...

WILEY2025

Understanding How Ligand Functionalization Influences CO2 and N-2 Adsorption in a Sodalite Metal-Organic Framework

Michele Ceriotti, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ilia Kochetygov, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

In this work, a detailed study is conducted to understand how ligand substitution influences the CO, and N-2 adsorption properties of two highly crystalline sodalite metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) known as Cu-BTT (BTT-3 = 1,3,5-benzenetristetrazolate) and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

From Nano- to Micrometer Scale: The Role of Antisolvent Treatment on High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Francesco Stellacci, Peng Gao, Evangelia-Nefeli Athanasopoulou, Kyung Taek Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Giulia Grancini, Yi Zhang, Pascal Alexander Schouwink

To date, antisolvent treatment has become one of the most important means to fabricate high efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs); however, the few reported antisolvents have not been analyzed on a uniform platform, and there is hitherto no clear reason ...

American Chemical Society2017

Enhancing the Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Using Chemical Bath Deposition of SnO2 Electron Transport Layers and 3D/2D Heterojunctions

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Hiroyuki Kanda, Xiaoxin Gao, Liping Zhong, Shun Tian, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez, Yanyan Fang

Chemical bath deposition (CBD) is an effective technique used to produce high-quality SnO2 electron transport layers (ETLs) employed in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). By optimizing the CBD process, high-quality SnO2 films are obtained with minimal oxygen v ...

2024

Voltage-driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga – Metal Nanoparticles

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Valery Okatenko, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Alexander Nicolas Chen, Krishna Kumar

Nanosized particles of liquid metals are emerging materials which hold promise for applications spanning from microelectronics to catalysis. Yet, the knowledge of their chemical reactivity is largely unknown. Here, we study the reactivity of liquid Ga and ...

2023

An In-Situ Neutron Diffraction and DFT Study of Hydrogen Adsorption in a Sodalite-Type Metal-Organic Framework, Cu-BTTri

Safak Bulut, Michele Ceriotti, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Ilia Kochetygov, Shuliang Yang, Rocio Semino Barbaresi

Herein we present a detailed study of the hydrogen adsorption properties of Cu‐BTTri, a robust crystalline metal–organic framework containing open metal‐coordination sites. Diffraction techniques, carried out on the activated framework, reveal a structure ...

2019

Thermally controlled growth of photoactive FAPbI(3) films for highly stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Cyril Cayron, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

We employ flash infrared annealing to investigate the phase transition of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI(3)) thin films for their solar cell applications. Measuring the enthalpy changes of the FAPbI(3) composition at different heating rates allows us ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Data-driven design of metal-organic frameworks for wet flue gas CO2 capture

Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Arunraj Chidambaram, Pascal Alexander Schouwink

Limiting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the largest challenges of our generation(1). Because carbon capture and storage is one of the few viable technologies that can mitigate current CO2 emissions(2), much effort is focused on developing ...

2019

A mixed anion hydroborate/carba-hydroborate as a room temperature Na-ion solid electrolyte

Pascal Alexander Schouwink

The novel compound Na2-x(CB11H12)(x)(B12H12)(1-x) shows a fast ionic Na conductivity of 2 mS cm(-1) at room temperature, reaching the superionic regime above 333 K. A low activation energy of 314 meV, in a thermodynamically and electrochemically stable str ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Pressure-induced structural transitions triggering dimensional crossover in the lithium purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17

Pascal Alexander Schouwink

At ambient pressure, lithium molybdenum purple bronze (Li0.9Mo6O17) is a quasi-one-dimensional solid in which the anisotropic crystal structure and the linear dispersion of the underlying bands produced by electronic correlations possibly bring about a rar ...

2021

Nanocrystal/Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids as Electrocatalytic Platforms for CO2 Conversion

Mounir Driss Mensi, Raffaella Buonsanti, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Valeria Mantella, Yannick Thomas Guntern, Jan Vávra, James Richard Pankhurst

The tunable chemistry linked to the organic/inorganic components in colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offers a rich playground to advance the fundamental understanding of materials design for various applications. Herein, we ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Strain-induced rubidium incorporation into wide-bandgap perovskites reduces photovoltage loss

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, David Lyndon Emsley, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Michael Allan Hope, Lukas Pfeifer, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Lorenzo Agosta, Yuxuan Zhang, Likai Zheng, Vladislav Slama, Francesco Biasoni

A-site cation mixing can enhance the photovoltaic performance of a wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite, but rubidium (Rb) cation mixing generally forms a nonperovskite phase. We report that lattice strain locks Rb ions into the α-phase of the lattice of a triple ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025