Publications associées à Tunable Metal Oxide Shell as a Spacer to Study Energy Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

The escalating energy demand and the imperative necessity to reduce the carbon footprint require transformative approaches to energy conversion. Materials chemistry plays a pivotal role in addressing these global challenges by developing novel materials fo ...

EPFL2024

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Material, Photonic and Electronic Effects

Fateme Kiani Shahvandi

Plasmonic photochemistry has a large potential to replace energy-intensive chemical processes with low-temperature, low-pressure light-driven chemical reactions. Plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as promising photocatalysts with exceptional and tunable ...

EPFL2024

Block Copolymer Stabilized Liquid Nanodroplets Facilitate Efficient Triplet Fusion-Based Photon Upconversion in Solid Polymer Matrices

Felipe Andres Saenz Padilla

Sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion is a photo-physical process that affords anti-Stokes-shifted emission after annihilation of two metastable triplet excitons of an emitter dye and the formation of a fluorescent singlet state ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Exploring Perovskite-Metal Nanoassemblies for Photocatalytic Applications

Seryio Saris

The development of sustainable, renewable and economic chemical processes lies in the centre of todayâ s global energy challenge. Like in plants, artificial photosynthesis offers an auspicious solution in harvesting solar energy and storing it in chemical ...

EPFL2020

Solar heat gains through train windows: a non-negligible contribution to the energy balance

Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Luc Burnier

The sector of transportation accounts for about one third of the total energy consumption in Switzerland. A monitoring campaign of the energy consumption of a regional train revealed the critical energy-consuming systems. Heating, cooling and ventilation w ...

2018

Unexpected Insights about Cation-Exchange on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Its Effect on Their Magnetic Behavior

Davide Deiana

Tuning the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles via the control of their features has always been challenging because these features are mostly intertwined. In the last years, a novel synthetic approach based on cation-exchange has been reported, and one of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Energy and Charge Transfer Cascade in Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanoparticle Aggregates

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Rachele Ossola

Highly photoluminescent hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles have recently attracted a wide interest in the context of high-stake applications, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), light emitting transistors and lasers. In addition, they constitute ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Backscatter in stratified turbulence

Sina Khani

In this paper, kinetic and potential energy transfers around a spectral test filter scale in direct numerical simulations of decaying stratified turbulence are studied in both physical and spectral domains. It is shown that while the domain-averaged effect ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Autodecomposition Approach for the Low-Temperature Mesostructuring of Nanocrystal Semiconductor Electrodes

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

Templating nanocrystals into mesoporous electrodes using an organic porogen typically requires thermal oxidation at >400 degrees C to completely remove the organic material and afford good electronic properties. These oxidation conditions are incompatible ...

American Chemical Society2015

A Material Approach to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells : Atomic Layer Deposition and Inverse Opal Host-Guest Architectures

Philippe Pierre Labouchère

With growing concerns on future energy supplies, solar energy appears as an energy source whose potential remains to be tapped at a large scale. In the last two decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been considered as a competitive means to conve ...

EPFL2014

Highly soluble energy relay dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum

High solubility is a requirement for energy relay dyes (ERDs) to absorb a large portion of incident light and significantly improve the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Two benzonitrile-soluble ERDs, BL302 and BL315, were synthesized, char ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Long-distance radiative excitation transfer between quantum dots in disordered photonic crystal waveguides

Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov

We theoretically investigate the magnitude and range of the photon-mediated interaction between two quantum dots embedded in a photonic crystal waveguide, including fabrication disorder both in the crystal and in the dot positioning. We find that disorder- ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Enhancing the efficiency of a dye sensitized solar cell due to the energy transfer between CdSe quantum dots and a designed squaraine dye

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Guido Viscardi, Lioz Etgar

The power conversion efficiency of a dye-sensitized solar cell with tailored squaraine dye enhanced by 47%, due to Forster resonance energy transfer from CdSe quantum dots to the squaraine dye. The incident photons to collection efficiency of electrons ind ...

2012

Linear and Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy of Photonic and Charge Transporting Systems

Jan Cornelius Brauer

Photo-induced charge separation and charge transport are fundamental processes in many energy conversion techniques, where light is converted into chemical energy (PEC), into electrical energy (solar cells) or in the opposite sense if electrical energy is ...

EPFL2012

On the Morphology and Interfaces of Nanostructured Hematite Photoanodes for Solar-Driven Water Splitting

Florian Le Formal

A sustainable route to store the energy provided by the Sun, is to directly convert sunlight into molecular hydrogen using a semiconductor performing water photolysis. Hematite (α-Fe2O3) is promising for this application due to its ample abundance, chemica ...

EPFL2011

Ultrafast Visible and Ultraviolet Fluorescence Studies of Molecular and Biological Sytems in Solution

Olivier Christian Bräm

A wide variety of physical and chemical processes at the molecular level, as charge or energy transfer, solvation, electronic as well as vibrational relaxation, is at the origin of the biological functionality of proteins. The work reported in this thesis ...

EPFL2011

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Mesoporous Hematite Prepared by a Solution-Based Colloidal Approach

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal

Sustainable hydrogen production through photoelectrochemical water splitting using hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising approach for the chemical storage of solar energy, but is complicated by the material's nonoptimal optoelectronic properties. Nanostruc ...

American Chemical Society2010

Phosphorescent energy relay dye for improved light harvesting response in liquid dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum

Energy transfer from phosphorescent ruthenium complex N877 dissolved in the liquid electrolyte to the squaraine sensitizer SQ1 anchored on the titanium oxide surface resulted in a four fold increase in external quantum efficiency in the blue part of the vi ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2010

Photoelectrochemical properties of sensitized thin films

Mohamad Hojeij

In recent years, the fabrication of novel ultrathin film systems featuring multi-functionalities has been extensively studied due to their potential applications in photonics, sensors and solar cells. In a general sense, the primary goal of the present the ...

EPFL2009

Sub-picosecond polychromatic photoluminescence studies of CdSe and PbSe nanodots

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Camilla Bonati, Andrea Cannizzo

We present our studies of femtosecond photoluminescence of colloidal solns. of CdSe and PbSe nanocrystals, using polychromatic fluorescence upconversion. Ultrafast relaxation processes are obsd. in both cases upon excitation at 400 nm and 800 nm resp. Unde ...

2008