Publications associées à Surface and Electrolyte Engineering on Semiconductor Electrodes for solar-assisted CO2 Reduction

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Indium and Silver Recovery from Perovskite Thin Film Solar Cell Waste by Means of Nanofiltration

Due to minimal material use and low-cost processing, next-generation thin film solar cells represent a promising alternative to traditional crystalline silicon solar cells. Among these, metal-halide perovskite solar cells have seen significant improvements ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Catalyst layer at the junction of a forward bias bipolar membrane for CO2 electrolysis

Matthieu André Dessiex, Sophia Haussener

CO2 reduction in an electrolysis cell with a forward bias bipolar membrane (BPM) ensures good selectivity and CO2 utilization, but still suffers from large overvoltages. Recent studies have shown that integrating metal-oxide catalysts at the BPM junction i ...

2025

Stabilizing permafrost with solar-powered cooling systems

Elizaveta Sharaborova

Permafrost thawing threatens infrastructure stability in cold regions. For example, in the Swiss Alps, ski lifts, cable cars, and buildings are subject to substantial risks from permafrost thaw. Passive, active, and hybrid thermal stabilization methods are ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

A thermotropic liquid crystal enables efficient and stable perovskite solar modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

Perovskite solar cells have seen impressive progress in performance and stability, yet maintaining efficiency while scaling area remains a challenge. Here we find that additives commonly used to passivate large-area perovskite films often co-precipitate du ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Kilowatt-scale solar hydrogen production system using a concentrated integrated photoelectrochemical device

Sophia Haussener, Saurabh Yuvraj Tembhurne, Clemens Gregor Suter, Isaac Thomas Holmes-Gentle

The production of synthetic fuels and chemicals from solar energy and abundant reagents offers a promising pathway to a sustainable fuel economy and chemical industry. For the production of hydrogen, photoelectrochemical or integrated photovoltaic and elec ...

2023

Efficient steam generation in industry - Combined heat pump cycle with mechanical vapor recompression

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Eric Olmedo Ocampo

Replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy sources for steam production in industry can help fulfill the targets towards a more sustainable energy landscape. In this work, a high-temperature heat pump and a gas-bearing supported turbocompressor are com ...

Int Inst Refrigeration2022

Performance Assessment of a nZEB Carbon Neutral Living/Office Space and Its Integration into a District Energy-Hub

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Pietro Florio, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

The integrated performance assessment of buildings can orient their design in the early stages. Despite the wide availability of physics simulation-based, data-driven, and hybrid techniques it is often difficult to rely on a single, appropriate technique t ...

2022

Designing a District Energy Infrastructure-a Case-Study in Lisbon

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

The paper describes a case study on the design of district energy infrastructure for the green-field project of the Vale de Santo Antonio (Lisbon, Portugal). The methodology is based on a novel framework built on the sequential integration of three softwar ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Multi-configuration evaluation of a megajoule-scale high-temperature latent thermal test-bed

Sophia Haussener, Clemens Gregor Suter, Selmar Rudolf Binder, Nithin Mallya

Thermal energy storage via latent heat provides an energy dense solution and, during discharge, a hot stream at a well-defined temperature. Utilizing metal phase change materials (PCMs) and high-temperature operation might enable fast (dis)charging and app ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Risk-Aware Active Power Flexibility Allocation From TSO–DSO Interconnections: The Switzerland's Transmission Network

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

The power flexibility of the proliferating distributed energy resources located in distribution networks could be aggregated and provided to the transmission system. Considering the lack of a framework to help transmission system operator (TSO) to benefit ...

2022

Leaving no aspect of sustainability behind: A framework for designing sustainable energy interventions applied to refugee camps

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Solomzi Makohliso

The issues of forced displacement and energy for sustainable development are convergent: an estimated 90% of displaced people globally have no access to electricity, while 85% of refugees are hosted in developing countries. However, few tools to plan and d ...

2022

Experimental and numerical investigation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy sheet pile wall

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria

One-of-a-kind experimental and numerical investigation is provided in this paper about energy sheet pile walls: earth retaining structures that embed heat exchanger probes within piles for the exploitation of shallow geothermal energy. The study resorts to ...

2021