Publications by Simon Nussbaum

Composition-tunable transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets via a scalable, solution-processable method

Kevin Sivula, Andras Kis, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Yanfei Zhao, Rebekah Anne Wells, Zhenyu Wang, Simon Nussbaum

The alloying of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is an established route to produce robust semiconductors with continuously tunable optoelectronic properties. However, typically reported methods for fabricating alloyed 2D TMD na ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Decoupling Interlayer Spacing and Cation Dipole on Exciton Binding Energy in Layered Halide Perovskites

Nicolas Grandjean, Rosario Scopelliti, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Han-Hee Cho, Simon Nussbaum, Yeonju Kim

Layered halide perovskites (LHPs) are emerging semiconductor materials due to their superior environmental stability compared to that of traditional halide perovskites. While LHPs have tunable optoelectronic properties, quantum and dielectric confinement e ...

2024

Free Charge Carrier Generation by Visible-Light-Absorbing Organic Spacers in Ruddlesden-Popper Layered Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Aaron Tomas Terpstra, Simon Nussbaum

Incorporating organic semiconductor building blocks as spacer cations into layered hybrid perovskites provides an opportunity to develop new materials with novel optoelectronic properties, including nanoheterojunctions that afford spatial separation of ele ...

2024

Photogenerated charge transfer in Dion-Jacobson type layered perovskite based on naphthalene diimide

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Etienne Christophe Socie, George Cameron Fish, Simon Nussbaum

Incorporating organic semiconducting spacer cations into layered lead halide perovskite structures provides a powerful approach to mitigate the typical strong dielectric and quantum confinement effects by inducing charge-transfer between the organic and in ...

2023

Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Spacer Cations for the Incorporation in Layered Perovskites

Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials are an emerging class of semiconductors endorsed as a more stable alternative compared to the more widely investigated 3D hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites (HOIP). Consisting of altern ...

EPFL2023

Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Benjamin Goldman, Rebekah Anne Wells, Simon Nussbaum, Emeline Cécile Rideau, Loï Charles Carbone, Elizaveta Potapova Mensi, Linda Lazouni

Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction at a Direct CuInGaS2/Electrolyte Junction

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Meng Xia, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Simon Nussbaum

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) CO2 reduction has received considerable attention given the inherent sustainability and simplicity of directly converting solar energy into carbonbased chemical fuels. However, complex photocathode architectures with protecting l ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Transparency and Morphology Control of Cu2O Photocathodes via an in Situ Electroconversion

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Meng Xia, Dan Ren, Rebekah Anne Wells, Linda Lazouni, Simon Nussbaum

2022

Tuning Napththalenediimide Cations for Incorporation into Ruddlesden–Popper-Type Hybrid Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Etienne Christophe Socie, Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic−inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials constructed with low-band-gap chromophore-based organic spacer cations are anemerging class of materials that promise unique tunability of their optoelectronic properties. However, the large siz ...

2022

The dilemma between acid and base catalysis in the synthesis of benzimidazole from o-phenylenediamine and carbon dioxide

Paul Joseph Dyson, Martin Hulla, Simon Nussbaum, Alexy Robert Bonnin

The tandem synthesis of benzimidazole and other azoles can be achived by the N-formylation of ortho-substituted anilines followed by a cyclization reaction. However, CO2-based N-formylations with hydrosilane reducing agents are base catalyzed whereas the c ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019