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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

Bulk Heterojunction Organic Semiconductor Photoanodes: Tuning Energy Levels to Optimize Electron Injection

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Arvindh Sekar, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Juan Manuel Moreno Naranjo

The use of a bulk heterojunction of organic semiconductors to drive photoelectrochemical water splitting is an emerging trend; however, the optimum energy levels of the donor and acceptor have not been established for photoanode operation with respect to e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

An efficient nickel hydrogen oxidation catalyst for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Xile Hu, Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Anna Krammer, Liang Yao, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Seunghwa Lee, Weiyan Ni

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electroc ...

2022

Benzodithiophene‐Based Spacers for Layered and Quasi‐Layered Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Mounir Driss Mensi, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Luc Emile Monnier

Incorporating extended pi-conjugated organic cations in layered lead halide perovskites is a recent trend promising to merge the fields of organic semiconductors and lead halide perovskites. Herein, we integrate benzodithiophene (BDT) into Ruddlesden–Poppe ...

2021

Spectroelectrochemical and Chemical Evidence of Surface Passivation at Zinc Ferrite (ZnFe 2 O 4 ) Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Mounir Driss Mensi, Meng Xia, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu

Recent advances in low‐cost manufacturing as well as in bulk/interface engineering have positioned zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4, ZFO) in the spotlight as a candidate material for solar water oxidation. However, the severe recombination at the reactive interface r ...

2021

A semiconducting polymer bulk heterojunction photoanode for solar water oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho

Organic semiconductors hold promise to enable scalable, low-cost and high-performance artificial photosynthesis. However, the performance of systems based on organic semiconductors for light-driven water oxidation have remained poor compared with inorganic ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Identifying Reactive Sites and Surface Traps in Chalcopyrite Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Mounir Driss Mensi, Meng Xia, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Gathering information on the atomic nature of reactive sites and trap states is key to fine tuning catalysis and suppressing deleterious surface voltage losses in photoelectrochemical technologies. Here, spectroelectrochemical and computational methods wer ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

A Direct Z-Scheme for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from a Water Ethanol Mixture on CoTiO3/TiO2 Heterostructures

Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu

Photocatalytic H-2 evolution from ethanol dehydrogenation is a convenient strategy to store solar energy in a highly valuable fuel with potential zero net CO2 balance. Herein, we report on the synthesis of CoTiO3/TiO2 composite catalysts with controlled am ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Defect engineered nanostructured LaFeO3 photoanodes for improved activity in solar water oxidation

Kevin Sivula, Mounir Driss Mensi, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Xavier Pereira Da Costa

LaFeO3 (LFO) is recognized as a candidate material for solar water oxidation, but its photoelectrochemical response remains modest and stagnant. With the aim of advancing LFO photoanodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), here, a nanorod array-type e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

A hybrid bulk-heterojunction photoanode for direct solar-to-chemical conversion dagger

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Meng Xia, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Dan Ren, Yongpeng Liu, Arvindh Sekar, Rebekah Anne Wells

Organic semiconductors (OSs) are emerging candidates as light-harvesting materials in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for direct solar-to-chemical conversion. Despite significant recent progress with OS-based photocathodes, the development of efficient an ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021