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Charge transporting material for optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical devices

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Effect of furan pi-spacer and triethylene oxide methyl ether substituents on performance of phenothiazine sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Conjugated pi-spacers are used to improve the light harvesting properties of sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. In several recent works, furan has outperformed other popular pi-spacers such as thiophene and phenyl. One of the best performing pheno ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Photoelectrocatalytic arene C–H amination

Xile Hu, Laurent Liardet, Jingshan Luo, Lei Zhang, Dan Ren

Photoelectrochemical cells are widely studied for solar energy conversion. However, they have rarely been used for the synthesis of high added-value organic molecules. Here we describe a strategy to use haematite, an abundant and robust photoanode, for non ...

2019

Development of New Strategies of Umpolung with Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Paola Caramenti

Organic chemistry is essential for the development of a modern society and technical progress requires the continuous development of synthetic methodologies Novel, efficient, selective and flexible protocols are employed to access complex frameworks from s ...

EPFL2019

Local structural investigation of hafnia-zirconia polymorphs in powders and thin films by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Despite increasing attention for the recently found ferro- and antiferroelectric properties, the polymorphism in hafnia- and zirconia-based thin films is still not sufficiently understood. In the present work, we show that it is important to have a good qu ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Copper Bipyridyl Redox Mediators for High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Yasemin Saygili

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies attract a lot of attention as a result of the increasing energy demand and environmental concerns stemming from the conventional energy resources. Accordingly, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) values of various solar ene ...

EPFL2019

Majority Charge Carrier Transport in Particle-based Photoelectrodes

Yannick Kenneth Gaudy, Sophia Haussener

The inter-particle charge transfer of particle-based photoelectrodes was investigated using a particle-based LaTiO2N photoelectrode as model system. The thickness-dependent front- to back-side illumination photocurrent ratio was measured and compared to th ...

2019

Elucidation of photovoltage origin and charge transport in Cu2O heterojunctions for solar energy conversion

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

Heterojunctions between p-type cuprous oxide (Cu2O) and suitable n-type layers stand out as some of the best performing and abundant oxide photoabsorbers currently available for the generation of hydrogen with photoelectrochemical cells or conversion of so ...

2019

Defect chemistry of methylammonium lead iodide

Alessandro Senocrate

The present work deals with the defect chemistry and charge transport properties in halide perovskites, and in particular in the archetypal methylammonium lead iodide. These materials are extensively researched due to their very promising application as li ...

EPFL2018

Long-lived Photo-Charges in 1D Helical Organic Semiconductor Nanostructures

Regina Judith Hafner

The formation of photoexcited states in organic semiconductors, their separation into long-lived or stable charge carriers, as well as the charge transport are critical processes relevant to several important research fields and emerging technologies. Whil ...

EPFL2018

Organic Semiconductor Based Devices for Solar Water Splitting

Kevin Sivula, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao

Solution processable organic semiconductors are well-established as high-performance materials for inexpensive and scalable solar energy conversion in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, but their promise in the economic conversion of solar energy into che ...

2018

Design of cyclopentadithiophene-based small organic molecules as hole selective layers for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann, Laura Calio

Thiophene-based p-type molecules are being extensively investigated and employed in optoelectronic devices due to their intriguing semiconducting properties. Herein, we report the synthesis and characterization of a 4H-cyclopenta[1,2-b: 5,4-b']dithiophene- ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2018

Lateral Intermolecular Electronic Interactions of Diketopyrrolopyrrole D−π–A Solar Dye Sensitizers Adsorbed on Mesoporous Alumina

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Heewon Bahng

The development of push−pull organic dyes utilizing the donor−(π-conjugated bridge)−acceptor (D−π−A) motif has induced a paradigm shift in the design of efficient nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), offering control over the aesthetic prope ...

2018