Publications related to Tunable Metal Oxide Shell as a Spacer to Study Energy Transfer in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

The escalating energy demand and the imperative necessity to reduce the carbon footprint require transformative approaches to energy conversion. Materials chemistry plays a pivotal role in addressing these global challenges by developing novel materials fo ...

EPFL2024

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Material, Photonic and Electronic Effects

Fateme Kiani Shahvandi

Plasmonic photochemistry has a large potential to replace energy-intensive chemical processes with low-temperature, low-pressure light-driven chemical reactions. Plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as promising photocatalysts with exceptional and tunable ...

EPFL2024

Block Copolymer Stabilized Liquid Nanodroplets Facilitate Efficient Triplet Fusion-Based Photon Upconversion in Solid Polymer Matrices

Felipe Andres Saenz Padilla

Sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion is a photo-physical process that affords anti-Stokes-shifted emission after annihilation of two metastable triplet excitons of an emitter dye and the formation of a fluorescent singlet state ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Exploring Perovskite-Metal Nanoassemblies for Photocatalytic Applications

Seryio Saris

The development of sustainable, renewable and economic chemical processes lies in the centre of todayâ s global energy challenge. Like in plants, artificial photosynthesis offers an auspicious solution in harvesting solar energy and storing it in chemical ...

EPFL2020

Solar heat gains through train windows: a non-negligible contribution to the energy balance

Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Luc Burnier

The sector of transportation accounts for about one third of the total energy consumption in Switzerland. A monitoring campaign of the energy consumption of a regional train revealed the critical energy-consuming systems. Heating, cooling and ventilation w ...

2018

Unexpected Insights about Cation-Exchange on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Its Effect on Their Magnetic Behavior

Davide Deiana

Tuning the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles via the control of their features has always been challenging because these features are mostly intertwined. In the last years, a novel synthetic approach based on cation-exchange has been reported, and one of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Energy and Charge Transfer Cascade in Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanoparticle Aggregates

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Joël Teuscher, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, Andrés Burgos Caminal, Rachele Ossola

Highly photoluminescent hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles have recently attracted a wide interest in the context of high-stake applications, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), light emitting transistors and lasers. In addition, they constitute ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Backscatter in stratified turbulence

Sina Khani

In this paper, kinetic and potential energy transfers around a spectral test filter scale in direct numerical simulations of decaying stratified turbulence are studied in both physical and spectral domains. It is shown that while the domain-averaged effect ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Autodecomposition Approach for the Low-Temperature Mesostructuring of Nanocrystal Semiconductor Electrodes

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Xiaoyun Yu, Mathieu Steven Prévot

Templating nanocrystals into mesoporous electrodes using an organic porogen typically requires thermal oxidation at >400 degrees C to completely remove the organic material and afford good electronic properties. These oxidation conditions are incompatible ...

American Chemical Society2015

A Material Approach to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells : Atomic Layer Deposition and Inverse Opal Host-Guest Architectures

Philippe Pierre Labouchère

With growing concerns on future energy supplies, solar energy appears as an energy source whose potential remains to be tapped at a large scale. In the last two decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been considered as a competitive means to conve ...

EPFL2014