Publications by Mounir Driss Mensi

Combinatorial Use of Reference Electrodes and DRT for Disentangling AEM Electrolyzer Losses

Jan Van Herle, Mounir Driss Mensi, Philippe Aubin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Samaneh Daviran, Hamza Moussaoui, Suhas Nuggehalli Sampathkumar, Khaled Lawand

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Polycondensation as a Universal Method for Preparing High-density Single-atom Catalyst Libraries

Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Pascal Miéville, Miyeon Chang, Xinbang Wu, Xunhui Wang, Laura Piveteau, Ariana Serban, Timo Markus Oskar Felder, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) present a promising subclass of classic heterogeneous catalysts by maximizing metal dispersion and enhancing efficiency. Although high-density SACs (HD-SACs) are reported, their synthesis is typically constrained to specific me ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Non-fluorinated Asymmetric Ether Electrolytes with Controlled Solvation Structure for High-voltage Lithium Metal Batteries

Mounir Driss Mensi

Ether-based electrolytes are well-suited for lithium metal anodes but suffer from limited oxidative stability, restricting their use with high-voltage cathodes. Fluorination has been employed to mitigate this challenge; however, their recycling poses envir ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Strain-induced rubidium incorporation into wide-bandgap perovskites reduces photovoltage loss

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Ursula Röthlisberger, David Lyndon Emsley, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jing Gao, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Michael Allan Hope, Lukas Pfeifer, Nikolaos Lempesis, Virginia Carnevali, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Lorenzo Agosta, Yuxuan Zhang, Likai Zheng

A-site cation mixing can enhance the photovoltaic performance of a wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite, but rubidium (Rb) cation mixing generally forms a nonperovskite phase. We report that lattice strain locks Rb ions into the α-phase of the lattice of a triple ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

p-NiO/LiNiO-GaN heterojunctions: a potential alternative to p-GaN for advanced devices

Mounir Driss Mensi, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Alessandro Floriduz, Zheng Hao

In this work, we introduce a p-NiO/LiNiO stack grown via low-temperature deposition processes, offering an effective alternative for creating localized p-type regions in GaN devices. This stack combines a high hole concentration p-NiO film ([h] = 2 × 1019 ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Surface chemistry of supported Ru nanoparticles investigated during CO2 hydrogenation by NAP-XPS

Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Züttel

In situ investigation of the surface composition of catalyst particles improves the understanding of the active species in heterogeneous catalysis. This study analyzed the surface chemistry of ruthenium nanoparticles supported on alumina during CO2 methana ...

2025

Selective light olefin synthesis with high ethylene abundance via CO2 hydrogenation over (Ga-In)2O3/SSZ-13 catalysts

Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Züttel, Laura Piveteau

Direct light olefin synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation is a new pathway to decarbonize the chemical industry. Inspired by the promising catalytic activity of Ga2O3-based catalysts in alkane dehydrogenation, this study reveals that optimizing Ga content in th ...

2025

Solvation Structure Engineering of Weakly Coordinating Sulfonamide Electrolytes for 4.6 V Lithium Metal Batteries

Mounir Driss Mensi

A series of trifluoromethanesulfonamide solvents were synthesized with systematically controlled ring size (4-6) at the N-terminal to tune their steric and electronic properties to realize enhanced contact ion pairs for the formation of an anion-derived so ...

2025

Nanostructured Metal Organic Framework-74 Derivatives for the Esterification of Levulinic Acid to Butyl Levulinate

Mounir Driss Mensi

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

“Grafting-from” and “Grafting-to” Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Functionalization of Glass for DNA Biosensors with Improved Properties

Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Pauline Skigin, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Alireza Kavand

Surface-based biosensors have proven to be of particular interest in the monitoring of human pathogens by means of their distinct nucleic acid sequences. Genosensors rely on targeted gene/DNA probe hybridization at the surface of a physical transducer and ...

MDPI AG2024

Bifacial perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells based on FAPbI3-based perovskite via hybrid evaporation-spin coating

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mounir Driss Mensi, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay, Christian Michael Wolff

Combining the two technologies of tandem solar cells and bifacial solar cells has a great potential to maximize energy harvesting while minimizing material and surface usage. Mid-bandgap perovskites (1.50–1.60 eV) are important for fulfilling current match ...

Elsevier2024

A post-synthetic modification strategy for enhancing Pt adsorption efficiency in MOF/polymer composites

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Mehrdad Asgari, Wendy Lee Queen, Olga Trukhina, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Till Marian Schertenleib

Growing polymers inside porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can allow incoming guests to access the backbone of otherwise non-porous polymers, boosting the number and/or strength of available adsorption sites inside the porous support. In the present wo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Tuning Stainless Steel Oxide Layers through Potential Cycling─AEM Water Electrolysis Free of Critical Raw Materials

Mounir Driss Mensi

Anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers (AEMWEs) have an intrinsic advantage over acidic proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers through their ability to use inexpensive, stable materials such as stainless steel (SS) to catalyze the sluggish oxyge ...

2024

Enhanced performance of perovskite solar cell via up-conversion YLiF4:Yb, Er nanoparticles

Mounir Driss Mensi, Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Masaud Hassan S Almalki

We report a simple and effective method for producing lanthanide ion-doped lithium-fluoride-based nanocrystals (YLiF4). We utilized those nanoparticles for up-conversion in fabricated perovskite solar cells. The obtained results shows that the up-conversio ...

Elsevier2024

Catalytic hydrogen combustion over supported metal catalysts; comparison and kinetic study

Mounir Driss Mensi, Emad Oveisi, Andreas Züttel, Cedric David Koolen

Catalytic H2 combustion (CHC) is an efficient way to mitigate H2 slip from industrial processes, overcoming the explosion and NOx emission risks. Although Pt-based catalysts are state-of-the-art catalysts, little is known about the CHC catalytic activity o ...

2024

High performance ultra-thin lithium metal anode enabled by vacuum thermal evaporation

Mounir Driss Mensi

The passivation layer that naturally forms on the lithium metal surface contributes to dendrite formation in lithium metal batteries by affecting lithium nucleation uniformity during charging. Herein, we propose using vacuum thermal evaporation to produce ...

2024

Post-Synthetic Covalent Grafting of Amines to NH2-MOF for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture

Mounir Driss Mensi, Wendy Lee Queen, Ilia Kochetygov, Anita Justin, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Till Marian Schertenleib, Miriam Jasmin Pougin, Jordi Espin Marti

Herein, a post-synthetic modification strategy is used to covalently graft polyamines, including ethylenediamine (ED), diethylenetriamine (DETA), tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TAEA), and polyethyleneimine (PEI) to the amino-ligand inside of a Cr-MOF, NH2-Cr-BDC ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Advancing Molecular Sieving via Å-Scale Pore Tuning in Bottom-Up Graphene Synthesis

Mounir Driss Mensi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Kangning Zhao, Cédric Karel J Van Goethem

Porous graphene films are attractive as a gas separation membrane given that the selective layer can be just one atom thick, allowing high-flux separation. A favorable aspect of porous graphene is that the pore size, essentially gaps created by lattice def ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Synergetic substrate and additive engineering for over 30%-efficient perovskite-Si tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mounir Driss Mensi, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Kerem Artuk, Xin Yu Chin, Deniz Türkay, Christian Michael Wolff

Perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells are the most prominent contenders to succeed single-junction Si cells that dominate the market today. Yet, to justify the added cost of inserting a perovskite cell on top of Si, these devices should first exhibit ...

2024

A Universal Perovskite/C60 Interface Modification via Atomic Layer Deposited Aluminum Oxide for Perovskite Solar Cells and Perovskite-Silicon Tandems

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mounir Driss Mensi, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay, Christian Michael Wolff

The primary performance limitation in inverted perovskite-based solar cells is the interface between the fullerene-based electron transport layers and the perovskite. Atomic layer deposited thin aluminum oxide (AlOX) interlayers that reduce nonradiative re ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024