Publications by Anna Morales Melgares

The role of Zn in C-S-H atomic structure, nucleation and growth

The most promising solution towards cementitious materials with a lower carbon footprint is the partial substitution of the clinker by supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, limestone and calcined clays. The produc ...

EPFL2023

Atomic-Level Structure of Zinc-Modified Cementitious Calcium Silicate Hydrate

David Lyndon Emsley, Karen Scrivener, Paul Bowen, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Manuel Cordova, Anna Morales Melgares, Amrit Venkatesh, Ziga Casar

It has recently been demonstrated that the addition of zinc can enhance the mechanical strength of tricalcium silicates (C3S) upon hydration, but the structure of the main hydration product of cement, calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H), in zinc modified form ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

PbZrTiO3 ferroelectric oxide as an electron extraction material for stable halide perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

State-of-the-art halide perovskite solar cells employ semiconductor oxides as electron transportmaterials. Defects in these oxides, such as oxygen vacancies (Ovac), act as recombination centres and, in air and UV light, reduce the stability of the solar ce ...

2019

Interfacial Engineering of Metal Oxides for Highly Stable Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Zaiwei Wang, Hui-Seon Kim, Monica Marcela Lira Cantu, Haibing Xie, Anna Morales Melgares

Oxides employed in halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have already demonstrated to deliver enhanced stability, low cost, and the ease of fabrication required for the commercialization of the technology. The most stable PSCs configuration, the carbon-base ...

WILEY2018