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Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuels: What’s Next?

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Low-temperature thermite reaction to form oxygen vacancies in metal-oxide semiconductors: A case study of photoelectrochemical cells

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Likai Zheng

The formation of oxygen vacancies (Vö) in n-type semiconductors is a key strategy for improving the performance of metal-oxide-based photoanodes. Whereas Vö has traditionally been created by gas- or liquid-phase treatments, here we report a solid-state red ...

2025

Cuprous oxide-Shewanella mediated photolytic hydrogen evolution

Michael Graetzel, Christos Comninellis, Kevin Sivula, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Meng Xia, Linfeng Pan, Michele Morgante

However, its green production process is expensive, involving water electrolysis, which requires a significant amount of energy. New technologies have been developed to decrease the cost associated with water electrolysis, such as using microbial electroly ...

2025

DFT-metadynamics insights on the origin of the oxygen evolution kinetics at the (100)-WSe2 surface

Kevin Sivula

Water oxidation or oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical cells is considered to be a major bottleneck in the way of hydrogen production by electro-synthesis, mainly due to a sluggish kinetics that characterizes the OER steps. Layered transitio ...

2025

Unexpected Pathway in Organic Semiconductor Nanoparticle Formation

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Arthur Eliot Bouchez

Organic semiconductor (OSC) nanoparticles (NPs) are promising for numerous applications including greener organic photovoltaics and heterogeneous photocatalysts for solar H2 production. Single component or mixed bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) OSC NPs are common ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

TEMPO bulk passivation boosts the performance and operational stability of rapid-annealed FAPI perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Sandy Sanchez Alonso

In this work, we present a high-performance, stable formamidinium lead iodide (FAPI) perovskite solar cell (PSC) achieved through the use of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxyl (TEMPO) bulk passivation and rapid photonic annealing. Utilizing flash infrared ...

2025

Photoelectrochemical Degradation and Regeneration of Ca2fe2o5 Photocathodes

Kevin Sivula, Benjamin Goldman

Ca2Fe2O5 is a p-type semiconductor with properties suitable for potential application as a photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting. However, it suffers from poor stability under working conditions that is still not completely understood. In th ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Methylammonium Nitrate-Mediated Crystal Growth and Defect Passivation in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Yeonju Kim

Additive engineering has been a crucial strategy to improve photovoltaic properties by reducing carrier trap centers or increasing carrier diffusion lengths in the lead halide perovskite active layer. We introduced a small amount of CH3NH3 +NO3 - (methylam ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

A metadynamics study of water oxidation reactions at (001)-WO3/liquid-water interface

Kevin Sivula

The WO 3 surface catalyst offers the acceleration of the conversion of water into oxygen and protons. In this work, we study the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and H 2 O 2 formation as competitive reactions on the (001) WO 3 surface using stateof-the-art ...

Elsevier BV2024

Improving the photoelectrocatalytic efficiency of CuWO4 through molybdenum for tungsten substitution and coupling with BiVO4

Kevin Sivula, Annalisa Polo

A systematic investigation on the photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) performance of a series of CuW1-xMoxO4 materials with different Mo for W substitution (x = 0-0.8), successfully synthesized as single, transparent photoactive layers, allowed us to identify copp ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024