Publications by Ladislav Kavan

Electrolyte effects and stability of Zn/Li dual-ion batteries with water-in-salt electrolytes

Michael Graetzel, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Ladislav Kavan

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries have emerged as promising candidates for safe and cost-effective energy storage, yet their performance remains constrained by electrode stability and electrolyte composition. In this study, we investigate the electrochemical beha ...

2025

Effect of imidazole-based additives on the voltage of dye sensitized solar cells with Cu(II/I) redox mediators

Michael Graetzel, Ladislav Kavan

Acetonitrile solutions of Cu(tmby)22+ exhibit aging-dependent changes of UV–Vis spectra, which were attributed to partial reduction to Cu(tmby)2+. This effect is boosted by the addition of imidazole bases, i.e., N-methyl-benzimidazole (NMB) or 5‑chloro-1-e ...

2025

Electron-Selective Layers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on TiO2 and SnO2

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan

Titanium dioxide (anatase, rutile) and quasi-amorphous tin dioxide are prepared on F-doped SnO2 in the form of dense thin films, which can serve as electron-selective layers in perovskite solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The present stud ...

2020

Electrochemical Characterization of CuSCN Hole-Extracting Thin Films for Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Neha Arora

CuSCN thin films (optimized previously for perovskite photovoltaics) are deposited on glass, F:SnO2 (FTO), Au, glass-like carbon (GC), and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). They exhibit capacitive charging in an electrochemical window from ca. -0.3 to 0.2 V vs ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Comprehensive control of voltage loss enables 11.7% efficient solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Ladislav Kavan, Jingshan Luo, Chenyi Yi, Yuhang Liu, Yiming Cao, Yasemin Saygili, Weiwei Zhang

The relatively large voltage loss (Vloss) in excitonic type solar cells severely limits their power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Here, we report a comprehensive control of Vloss through efficacious engineering of the sensitizer and redox mediator, makin ...

2018

Alternative bases to 4-tert-butylpyridine for dye-sensitized solar cells employing copper redox mediator

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Yasemin Saygili

2018

Molecular Design of Efficient Organic D-A-pi-A Dye Featuring Triphenylamine as Donor Fragment for Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Yasemin Saygili, Weiwei Zhang

2018

Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond as a Corrosion-Resistant Anode for Water Oxidation via Si Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan, Florian Le Formal, Petr Ashcheulov

Due to its high sensitivity to corrosion, the use of Si in direct photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting systems that convert solar energy into chemical fuels has been greatly limited. Therefore, the development of low-cost materials resistant to corro ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Phace: Physics-based Face Modeling and Animation

Mark Pauly, Ladislav Kavan, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a novel physics-based approach to facial animation. Contrary to commonly used generative methods, our solution computes facial expressions by minimizing a set of non-linear potential energies that model the physical interaction of passive flesh, ...

2017

All-diamond functional surface micro-electrode arrays for brain-slice neural analysis

Ladislav Kavan, Michele Giugliano

Diamond-based microelectrode arrays were fabricated by using nanocrystalline diamond as an insulating layer and conductive boron-doped in order to used them for analysis of brain cortical slices. MEA surface is solely composed of diamond, exposed to the ce ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2017