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Giant switchable non thermally-activated conduction in 180 degrees domain walls in tetragonal Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Felix Risch

Conductive domain walls in ferroelectrics offer a promising concept of nanoelectronic circuits with 2D domain-wall channels playing roles of memristors or synoptic interconnections. However, domain wall conduction remains challenging to control and pA-rang ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Semiaromatic polyamides with enhanced charge carrier mobility

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Nicolas Candau

The control of local order in polymer semiconductors using non-covalent interactions may be used to engineer materials with interesting combinations of mechanical and optoelectronic properties. To investigate the possibility of preparing n-type polymer sem ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Structural and Photophysical Templating of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Single-Stranded DNA

Ursula Röthlisberger, Polydefkis Diamantis, Natalie Renuka Banerji

A promising approach to influence and control the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers is directing their molecular conformation by templating. We explore here the templating effect of single-stranded DNA oligomers (ssDNAs) on cationic polythiop ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Local Structure and Dynamics in Methylammonium, Formamidinium, and Cesium Tin(II) Mixed-Halide Perovskites from Sn-119 Solid-State NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Daniel Prochowicz

Organic-inorganic tin(II) halide perovskites have emerged as promising alternatives to lead halide perovskites in optoelectronic applications. While they suffer from considerably poorer performance and stability in comparison to their lead analogues, their ...

2020

Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion

Harald Brune, Roland Widmer, Jan Prinz, Samuel Thomas Stolz

The reliability by which molecular motor proteins convert undirected energy input into directed motion or transport has inspired the design of innumerable artificial molecular motors. We have realized and investigated an artificial molecular motor applying ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Anomalous Hall and Nernst Effects in Co2TiSn and Co2Ti0.6V0.4Sn Heusler Thin Films

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Sa Tu, Junfeng Hu, Yao Zhang

Magnetotransport (magnetoresistance and anomalous Hall effect) and thermoelectric (Seebeck and anomalous Nernst effect) effects are investigated on epitaxially grown Co2TiSn and Co2Ti0.6V0.4Sn Heusler thin films. An anomalous Nernst coefficient up to 1.8 m ...

American Physical Society (APS)2018

Long-lived Photo-Charges in 1D Helical Organic Semiconductor Nanostructures

Regina Judith Hafner

The formation of photoexcited states in organic semiconductors, their separation into long-lived or stable charge carriers, as well as the charge transport are critical processes relevant to several important research fields and emerging technologies. Whil ...

EPFL2018

Polyimidazolium Salts: Robust Catalysts for the Cycloaddition of Carbon Dioxide into Carbonates in Solvent-Free Conditions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Wei Zhong

There is a growing interest in sustainable heterogeneous catalysts based on organic polymers. Here, we describe a series of polyimidazolium salt catalysts, prepared from the direct reaction of arene- bridged bis- and tris-alkyl halides with trimethylsilyli ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Salt-induced thermochromism of a conjugated polyelectrolyte

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay, Yauhen Sheima

We report here the photophysical properties of a water-soluble conjugated polythiophene with cationic side-chains. When dissolved in aqueous buffer solution (PBS, phosphate buffered saline), there is ordering of the polymer chains due to the presence of th ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Experimental and first-principles study of point defects, domain walls, and point-defect/domain-wall interactions in ferroelectric oxides

Anand Chandrasekaran

Ferroelectric oxides, such as lead zirconate titanate, have proved invaluable due to their excellent dielectric and piezoelectric properties. These classes of materials possess a large electric polarization below the Curie temperature. Regions of the cryst ...

EPFL2016

Copper-Catalyzed Oxy-Alkynylation of Diazo Compounds with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Jérôme Waser, Durga Prasada Rao Hari

Alkynes have found widespread applications in synthetic chemistry, biology, and materials sciences. In recent years, methods based on electrophilic alkynylation with hypervalent iodine reagents have made acetylene synthesis more flexible and efficient, but ...

American Chemical Society2016

In situ photoelectron spectroscopic characterization of reactively sputtered, doped vanadium oxide thin films

Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Rosendo Sanjines, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

Thin films of pure vanadium oxide (VOx) and Ge doped vanadium oxide (VOx:Ge) have been deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering on Si (100) substrates. These films were characterized by means of in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ultraviolet ph ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Shape-Dependence of Pd Nanocrystal Carburization during Acetylene Hydrogenation

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada, Fernando Cardenas Lizana

This interdisciplinary work combines the use of shape- and size-defined Pd nanocrystals (cubes of 10 and 18 nm, and octahedra of 37 nm) with in situ techniques and DFT calculations to unravel the dynamic phenomena with respect to Pd reconstruction taking p ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Importance of Unpaired Electrons in Organic Electronics

Mariateresa Scarongella, Natalie Renuka Banerji

The first observation that PBBTPD, a low bandgap, ambipolar conjugated donor-acceptor (DA) polymer based on benzobisthiadiazole (BBT), possesses an open-shell singlet ground state as well as a thermally accessible triplet state is described. Similarly, int ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Dimensional crossover in the quantum transport behaviour of the natural topological insulator Aleksite

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Pascal Gehring, Alexander Ronald Hoyer, Kristina Vaklinova

Three-dimensional topological insulators comprise topologically protected surface states displaying massless, Dirac-like linear dispersion with spin-momentum locking. Electrical conduction through such surface states has been documented to manifest itself ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Development of a New Generation of Ammonia Sensors on Printed Polymeric Hotplates

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, El Hadji Malick Camara

Conducting polyaniline-based chemiresistors on printed polymeric micro-hotplates were developed, showing sensitive and selective detection of ammonia vapor in air. The devices consist of a fully inkjet-printed silver heater and interdigitated electrodes on ...

American Chemical Society2014

Size and Shape-controlled Pd Nanocrystals on ZnO and SiO2: When the Nature of the Support Determines the Active Phase

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada

The structure sensitivity of acetylene hydrogenation was studied over size-controlled cubic and octahedral Pd nanocrystals (NCs) supported on ZnO and SiO2. Acetylene hydrogenation was found to be structure sensitive [with Pd(111) in octahedra being more ac ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2014

A toolbox of oligopeptide-modified polymers for tailored elastomers

Véronique Michaud, Holger Frauenrath, Emmanuel Croisier, Joël Cugnoni, Su Liang, Marijana Mionic Ebersold, Ruben Anton Snellings, Thomas Schweizer

Biomaterials are constructed from limited sets of building blocks but exhibit extraordinary and versatile properties, because hierarchical structure formation lets them employ identical supramolecular motifs for different purposes. Here we exert a similar ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

One-pot photoinduced synthesis of conductive polythiophene-epoxy network films

Marco Sangermano, Federica Sordo

In this paper, we describe a novel methodology for fabricating conductive epoxy-polythiophene network films by simultaneous photoinduced step-growth and cationic ring opening polymerization processes. For this purpose, formulations containing a bifunctiona ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Photocatalytic degradation of Remazol Brilliant Blue (R) by sol-gel derived carbon-doped TiO2

Ravindranathan Thampi, Michael Jon Mattle

A simple, cheap and reproducible method to produce a C-doped TiO2 photocatalyst is presented, which can harvest visible light. This doped catalyst is able to degrade a stable organic dye molecule, Remazol Brilliant Blue (R) (RBB), under sunlight and visibl ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013