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

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

Organic Semiconductors For Photoelectrochemical Applications

Arvindh Sekar

The capture and conversion of solar energy into other useful forms has been the topic of discussion for the past few decades, accentuated by the need to combat climate change and face the challenge of non-renewability of conventional sources of fuel for ou ...

EPFL2022

A semiconducting polymer bulk heterojunction photoanode for solar water oxidation

Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, 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, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Dan Ren, Han-Hee Cho, Meng Xia

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

Organic Semiconductors as Photoanodes for Solar-driven Photoelectrochemical Fuel Production

Kevin Sivula, Arvindh Sekar

The direct conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, via photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting requires the efficient oxidation of water at a photoanode. While transition metal oxides have shown a significant success as photoan ...

2021

Establishing Stability in Organic Semiconductor Photocathodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Rebekah Anne Wells, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, 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

Fully Conjugated Donor–Acceptor Block Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics via Heck–Mizoroki Coupling

Kevin Sivula, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte, Han-Hee Cho

2019

Catalyst-Free, Fast, and Tunable Synthesis for Robust Covalent Polymer Network Semiconducting Thin Films

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Xiaoyun Yu, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao

2018

Melt-processing of small molecule organic photovoltaics via bulk heterojunction compatibilization

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Emilie Aude Marie Ripaud, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu

2018

Morphology stabilization strategies for small-molecule bulk heterojunction photovoltaics

Kevin Sivula, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Simon Hänni, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Emilie Aude Marie Ripaud, Arvindh Sekar, Liang Yao

The greater crystallinity of solution-processed small-molecule organic semiconductors, compared to their polymer counterparts, renders the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) more susceptible to phase separation under thermal stress, decreasing device performance. H ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017