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Tuning Napththalenediimide Cations for Incorporation into Ruddlesden–Popper-Type Hybrid Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Etienne Christophe Socie, Liang Yao, Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic−inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials constructed with low-band-gap chromophore-based organic spacer cations are anemerging class of materials that promise unique tunability of their optoelectronic properties. However, the large siz ...

2022

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

An efficient nickel hydrogen oxidation catalyst for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Xile Hu, Anna Krammer, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Weiyan Ni, Liang Yao, Seunghwa Lee

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electroc ...

2022

Benzodithiophene‐Based Spacers for Layered and Quasi‐Layered Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Mounir Driss Mensi, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Luc Emile Monnier, Liang Yao, Barbara Alexandra Primera Darwich, Han-Hee Cho

Incorporating extended pi-conjugated organic cations in layered lead halide perovskites is a recent trend promising to merge the fields of organic semiconductors and lead halide perovskites. Herein, we integrate benzodithiophene (BDT) into Ruddlesden–Poppe ...

2021

Spectroelectrochemical and Chemical Evidence of Surface Passivation at Zinc Ferrite (ZnFe 2 O 4 ) Photoanodes for Solar Water Oxidation

Michael Graetzel, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Dan Ren, Meng Xia

Recent advances in low‐cost manufacturing as well as in bulk/interface engineering have positioned zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4, ZFO) in the spotlight as a candidate material for solar water oxidation. However, the severe recombination at the reactive interface r ...

2021

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

Identifying Reactive Sites and Surface Traps in Chalcopyrite Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Mounir Driss Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia

Gathering information on the atomic nature of reactive sites and trap states is key to fine tuning catalysis and suppressing deleterious surface voltage losses in photoelectrochemical technologies. Here, spectroelectrochemical and computational methods wer ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

A Direct Z-Scheme for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from a Water Ethanol Mixture on CoTiO3/TiO2 Heterostructures

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu

Photocatalytic H-2 evolution from ethanol dehydrogenation is a convenient strategy to store solar energy in a highly valuable fuel with potential zero net CO2 balance. Herein, we report on the synthesis of CoTiO3/TiO2 composite catalysts with controlled am ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Defect engineered nanostructured LaFeO3 photoanodes for improved activity in solar water oxidation

Mounir Driss Mensi, Kevin Sivula, Xavier Pereira Da Costa, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Yongpeng Liu

LaFeO3 (LFO) is recognized as a candidate material for solar water oxidation, but its photoelectrochemical response remains modest and stagnant. With the aim of advancing LFO photoanodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), here, a nanorod array-type e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

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

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

Generalized Synthesis to Produce Transparent Thin Films of Ternary Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Liang Yao, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte, Annalisa Polo

Developing facile approaches to prepare non-light-scattering ternary oxide thin film photoelectrodes is an important goal for solar water splitting tandem cells. Herein, a novel synthesis route is reported that employs ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Cu2O photocathodes with band-tail states assisted hole transport for standalone solar water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kevin Sivula, Linfeng Pan, Liang Yao, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren

Photoelectrochemical water splitting provides a promising solution for harvesting and storing solar energy. As the best-performing oxide photocathode, the Cu2O photocathode holds the performance rivaling that of many photovoltaic semiconductor-based photoc ...

Nature Research2020

RF sheath modeling of experimentally observed plasma surface interactions with the JET ITER-Like Antenna

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

Waves in the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) enhance local Plasma-Surface Interactions (PSI) near the wave launchers and magnetically-connected objects via Radio-Frequency (RF) sheath rectification. ITER will use 20MW of ICRF power over long puls ...

Elsevier2019

Determination of tungsten sources in the JET-ILW divertor by spectroscopic imaging in the presence of a strong plasma continuum

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

The identification of the sources of atomic tungsten and the measurement of their radiation distribution in front of all plasma-facing components has been performed in JET with the help of two digital cameras with the same two-dimensional view, equipped wi ...

Elsevier2019

Erosion, screening, and migration of tungsten in the JET divertor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

The erosion of tungsten (W), induced by the bombardment of plasma and impurity particles, determines the lifetime of plasma-facing components as well as impacting on plasma performance by the influx of W into the confined region. The screening of W by the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Diagnostic of fast-ion energy spectra and densities in magnetized plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

The measurement of the energy spectra and densities of alpha-particles and other fast ions are part of the ITER measurement requirements, highlighting the importance of energy-resolved energetic-particle measurements for the mission of ITER. However, it ha ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

The effect of beryllium oxide on retention in JET ITER-like wall tiles

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

Preliminary results investigating the microstructure, bonding and effect of beryllium oxide formation on retention in the JET ITER-like wall beryllium tiles, are presented. The tiles have been investigated by several techniques: Scanning Electron Microscop ...

Elsevier2019

Direct gyrokinetic comparison of pedestal transport in JET with carbon and ITER-like walls

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Gabriele Merlo, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

This paper compares the gyrokinetic instabilities and transport in two representative JET pedestals, one (pulse 78697) from the JET configuration with a carbon wall (C) and another (pulse 92432) from after the installation of JET's ITER-like Wall (ILW). Th ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

The software and hardware architecture of the real-time protection of in-vessel components in JET-ILW

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

For the first time, the JET operation in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasma, which is scheduled to take place on JET in 2020, will be performed in the ITER mix of plasma-facing component materials. In view of the preparation of the DT campaign (DTE2), several ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019