Publications de Rebekah Anne Wells

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

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

Assembling a Photoactive 2D Puzzle: From Bulk Powder to Large- Area Films of Semiconducting Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets

Kevin Sivula, Rebekah Anne Wells

CONSPECTUS: Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials are poised to revolutionize ultrathin, high-performance optoelectronic devices. In particular, transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited for applications requiring robust and stable ma ...

2023

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

Semiconducting two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides via solution-processable routes

Rebekah Anne Wells

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess remarkable optoelectronic properties which are unique and tunable based on composition and thickness. These materials are posed to revolutionize ultrathin devices across many fields inclu ...

EPFL2022

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

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

Establishing Stability in Organic Semiconductor Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

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

As organic semiconductors attract increasing attention to application in the fields of bioelectronics and artificial photosynthesis, understanding the factors that determine their robust operation in direct contact with aqueous electrolytes becomes a criti ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Lucie Navratilova, Liang Yao, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Florian Le Formal, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Han-Hee Cho, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich

The facile synthesis, solution-processability, and outstanding optoelectronic properties of emerging colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (LHP QDs) makes them ideal candidates for scalable and inexpensive optoelectronic applications, including pho ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Roll-to-Roll Deposition of Semiconducting 2D Nanoflake Films of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Optoelectronic Applications

Kevin Sivula, Rebekah Anne Wells, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte, Hannah Elizabeth Johnson

Exfoliated transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanomaterials possess remarkable and tunable semiconducting properties which make them competitive for use in ultrathin, flexible devices such as photodetectors, sensors, and photoelectrodes for solar energy ...

2019