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Correction: Embedded solution to detect and classify head level objects using stereo vision for visually impaired people with audio feedback

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Silvan Suter

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Challenges and Opportunities of the Human-Centered Design Approach: Case Study Development of an Assistive Device for the Navigation of Persons With Visual Impairment

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Silvan Suter

Background Visual impairment (VI) significantly impacts quality of life, particularly in autonomous pedestrian navigation. Limitations in independent navigation lead to frustration, diminished confidence, and risks to bodily integrity for individuals with ...

JMIR Publications Inc.2025

Healthcare Provider and Parent Perceptions of Newborn Care and Referral Pathways in Three Hospitals in Western Kenya; a Formative Study

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Silvan Suter

Background The common causes of the 1.1 million newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are birth asphyxia and trauma, severe infections, and complications of prematurity. Hypothermia is also a major threat to newborn survival. Three-quarters of newborn death ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2025

Photo‐Electrochemical Conversion of CO 2 Under Concentrated Sunlight Enables Combination of High Reaction Rate and Efficiency

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter, Mahendra Patel, Etienne Boutin

Photo-electrochemical production of solar fuels from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight is an appealing approach. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to scale despite encouraging demonstrations at low power input. Higher current densities require notable ...

Wiley2022

Ending Neonatal Deaths From Hypothermia in Sub-Saharan Africa: Call for Essential Technologies Tailored to the Context

Solomzi Makohliso, Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Silvan Suter

Neonatal death represents a major burden in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the main conditions triggering mortality, such as prematurity, labor complications, infections, and respiratory distress syndrome, are frequently worsened by hypothermia, which dra ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Optimizing and Implementing Light Trapping in Thin-Film, Mesostructured Photoanodes

Sophia Haussener, Rafael Angelus Graf, Silvan Suter

Stable semiconductor photoelectrodes for water splitting often exhibit long absorption lengths and poor properties for the efficient separation and transport of photogenerated charges. We propose a combination of resonant and geometric light trapping for t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Electrodes

Silvan Suter

Motivated to advance the renewable energy production and diversify the technologies for storable energy carriers, my work is concentrated on the characterization and the optimization of electrode morphologies applicable in photoelectrochemical water-splitt ...

EPFL2019

Optimizing Mesostructured Silver Catalysts for Selective Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

Mesostructured silver catalysts have shown a substantial rise in reaction selectivity for the conversion of CO2 into fuels with increasing thickness of ordered, inverse-opal films. The challenge lies in the optimization of the morphology to maximize the CO ...

2019

Linking Morphology and Multi-Physical Transport in Structured Photoelectrodes

Marco Cantoni, Yannick Kenneth Gaudy, Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

Semiconductors with complex anisotropic morphologies in solar to chemical energy conversion devices enhance light absorption and overcome limiting charge transport in the solid. However, structuring the solid-liquid interface has also implications on conce ...

2018

Pore-level engineering of macroporous media for increased performance of solar-driven thermochemical fuel processing

Aldo Steinfeld, Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

The performance of high-temperature solar reactors incorporating porous ceramic materials that serve as radiative absorbers and chemical reaction sites can be improved significantly by tailoring their pore structure. We investigated the changes in their ef ...

Elsevier2014

Morphology Engineering of Porous Media for Enhanced Solar Fuel and Power Production

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

The favorable and adjustable transport properties of porous media make them suitable components in reactors used for solar energy conversion and storage processes. The directed engineering of the porous media's morphology can significantly improve the perf ...

Springer Verlag2013